Richard A. Easterlin

26.2k citations
159 papers · 12.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 51
Topics
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (47 papers)Income, Poverty, and Inequality (23 papers)Economic Growth and Productivity (19 papers)

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Easterlin

152 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of...19812026199620111995200120032010198150010001.5k

Peers

Richard A. Easterlin
Comparison fields: 5 of 165
  • Social Psychology 5.5k
  • Sociology and Political Science 5.0k
  • Economics and Econometrics 3.0k
  • Health 2.6k
  • General Health Professions 2.5k
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All Works

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The happiness–income paradox revisitedbreakdown →
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Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle
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Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven
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Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat
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The Fertility Revolution
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Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility
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American Population since 1940
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The coming upswing in fertility.
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The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes
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The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective
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Analyses of economic change
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About Richard A. Easterlin

Richard A. Easterlin is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Social Psychology and General Decision Sciences, having authored 159 papers that have together received 12.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (47 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (23 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health (2.6k citations), Social Psychology (5.5k citations) and General Decision Sciences (435 citations). Richard A. Easterlin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Malgorzata Switek, Eileen M. Crimmins, Jacqueline Zweig, Onnicha Sawangfa, Laura Angelescu, James A. Sweet, Anke C. Plagnol, Robson Morgan, Tanja Schultz and Fei Wang. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Finance and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

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