January 2010

Andrew Clark PSE, Ecole normale supérieure  48 boulevard Jourdan  75014 Paris France Tel : 33 (0)1 43 13 63 29  Fax: 33 (0)1 43 13 63 10 Mail: Andrew.Clark@ens.fr CNRS Directeur de recherche/Research Professor.   Assistante/Secretary: Marie-Hélène Lebreton 33 (0)1 43 13 63 00

 
 

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• Research Fellow at IZA.
• Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
• Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the Centre for Corporate Performance, Aarhus School of Business.
  
• Director of the "Labour" programme of PSE.
  
• Co-director of the "Labour" programme of CEPREMAP.
  
• Executive Committee of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS).
• Discussant of the International Wellbeing Group.

Acronym information: I used to be at DELTA, now I'm at PSE. That's because DELTA merged with CERAS and the two research groups of CEPREMAP to form PSE, which thus now has four different governing bodies (CNRS-EHESS-ENPC-ENS). I hope that everything is now clear. But of course, four is not really enough, so in January 2010 we merged with INRA-LEA (who are already on the Jourdan campus), adding the INRA as a fifth governing body.

Oh, and PSE is sort of joining forces with (some of) University Paris 1 to form the Paris School of Economics. To sum up, I am at PSE, which is part of PSE.


Activities

• Current
• I organise the WIP (Work In Progress) seminar for PhD students (30 minute presentation: great practice for conferences!). Contact me if you would like to present. The Labour and Public Economics seminar (which is more international/external) is organised by Luc Behaghel .
• The Ninth ISQOLS conference was held in Florence, July 19th-23rd. I fully expect the next one to be in Bangkok.
  
• Member of the United Nations Well-Being Group. Don't believe me? Check out this photo then.
  
• The new ISQOLS journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life (Springer) is actively soliciting contributions.
• I organised, with Fabrice Etilé, a Workshop on the Economics of Obesity, held on the Jourdan Campus on the 3rd and 4th of December.
  

Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics. The use of job and life satisfaction data to analyse labour market phenomena. Modelling the utility function: comparisons and habituation. Social interactions, and social learning. Job quality. The economic analysis of drug markets and cigarette consumption. Generallly funky stuff.

Thèmes de recherche

Microéconomie Appliquée. L'analyse du marché du travail en faisant appel aux données sur la satisfaction dans le travail et la satisfaction dans la vie. La modélisation de la fonction d'utilité : normes, comparaisons et accoutumance. Les interactions sociales et l'apprentissage social. La qualité de l'emploi. L'analyse économique de la consommation des produits à risque. 

A Full CV in PDF format is here.

Publications

• UK unemployment, Heinemann Educational, 1989, Second edition, 1993 (both with Richard Layard). Third edition, 1997 (with Richard Layard and Marcus Rubin).
• "Efficient Bargains and the McDonald-Solow Conjecture", Journal of Labor Economics, (October 1990), 8, pp.502-528.
• "Trade Union Utility Functions: A Survey of Union Leaders' Views" (with Andrew Oswald), Industrial Relations, (Fall 1993), 32, pp.391-411.
• "Adding up the Pros and Cons of Legalization", International Journal of Drug Policy, (Autumn 1993), 4, pp.116-121.
• "Unhappiness and Unemployment" (with Andrew Oswald), Economic Journal, (May 1994), 104, pp.648-659. Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Happiness in Economics, R.Easterlin (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2002.
• "Changes in Economic Activity" (with Shirley Dex, Kim Perren, David Rose and Mark Taylor), in Changing Households, Buck, N., Gershuny, J., Rose, D., and Scott, J. (eds.), ESRC Research Centre Press, 1994.
• "Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in Age" (with Andrew Oswald and Peter Warr), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (Spring 1996), 69, pp.57-81.
• "L'utilité est-elle relative ? Analyse à l'aide de données sur les ménages", Economie et Prévision, (1996), no.121, pp.151-164.
• "Job Satisfaction in Britain", British Journal of Industrial Relations, (June 1996), 34, pp.189-217.
• "Satisfaction and Comparison Income" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (September 1996), 61, pp.359-81.
• "Job Satisfaction and Gender: Why are Women so Happy at Work?", Labour Economics, (December 1997), 4, pp.341-372.
• "Comparison-concave Utility and Following Behaviour in Social and Economic Settings" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (October 1998), 70, pp.133-155.
• "Job Satisfaction, Wage Changes and Quits: Evidence from Germany" (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Research in Labor Economics , (1998), 17, pp.95-121.
• "Are Wages Habit-Forming? Evidence from Micro Data", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (June 1999), 39, pp.179-200.
• "Utilité Relative ou Utilité Absolue ? État des Lieux", Revue Economique, (May 2000), 51, pp.459-471.
• "What Really Matters in a Job? Hedonic Measurement Using Quit Data", Labour Economics, (May 2001), 8, pp.223-242.
• "Scarring: the Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment", (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Economica, (May 2001), 68, pp.221-241.
• "Well-Being and Wage Arrears in Russian Panel Data", (with Mathilde Maurel), HSE Economic Journal, (May 2001), 5, pp.179-193.
• "Interactions In Labour Force Status, As Revealed By Proxy Utility Data", Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, (July-December 2001), 63-64, pp.21-37.
• "Do Health Changes Affect Smoking? Evidence from British Panel Data", (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (July 2002), 21,  pp.533-562.
• "A Simple Statistical Model for Measuring How Life Events Affect Happiness" (with Andrew Oswald), International Journal of Epidemiology, (December 2002), 31, pp.1139-1144.
  
• "Re-Examining Adaptation and the Setpoint Model of Happiness: Reaction to Changes in Marital Status" (with Ed Diener,Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (March 2003), 84, pp.527-539.
  
• "Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data", Journal of Labor Economics, (April 2003), 21, pp.323-351.
• "Unemployment Alters the Set-Point for Life Satisfaction" (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Psychological Science, (January 2004), 15, pp.8-13.
• "La modélisation collective de l'offre de travail : mise en perspective et application aux données britanniques" (with Hélène Couprie and Catherine Sofer), Revue Economique, (July 2004), 55, pp.767-789. 
• “Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries” (with Fabrice Etilé, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Claudia Senik, and Karine van der Straeten), Economic Journal, (March 2005), 115, pp.C118-C132..
  
• “What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries” in Job Quality and Employer Behaviour, Bazen, S., Lucifora, C. and Salverda, W. (eds.), Palgrave, 2005, pp.11-30.
• “Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, (September 2005), 43, pp.377-400.
  
• “The (Unexpected) Structure of “Rents” on the French and British Labour Markets” (with Claudia Senik), Journal of Socio-Economics, (April 2006), 35, pp.180-196.
  
• “Health Changes and Smoking: An Economic Analysis” (with Fabrice Etilé), Substance Use and Misuse, (April 2006), 41, pp.427-451.
  
• “Effort, revenu et rang : une étude expérimentale” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Revue Economique, (May 2006), 57, pp.635-643.
  
• “Don’t Give Up on Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour” (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (September 2006), 25, pp.958-978.
• “Do People Really Adapt to Marriage?” (with Rich Lucas), Journal of Happiness Studies, (November 2006), 7, pp.405-426.
• “Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration”, Applied Economics Quarterly, (December 2006), Vol.52, no.4, pp.291-308.
• “It wasn't me, It was them! Social Influence in Risky Behaviour by Adolescents” (withYouenn Loheac), Journal of Health Economics, (July 2007), Vol.26, no.4, pp.763-784.
• “Statut résidentiel et durée de chômage en France et au Royaume - Uni” (with Carole Brunet and Jean-Yves Lesueur), Revue Française d’Economie, (October 2007), Vol.22, no.2, pp.165-190.
  
• “Conditions de collecte et santé auto-déclarée : Une analyse sur données européennes”, (with Augustin Vicard), Economie et Statistique,  (December 2007), Vol.403-404, pp.143-163. 39.   
  
• “La croissance rend-elle heureux ? La réponse des données subjectives”, (with Claudia Senik), in 27 Questions D'Economie Contermporaine. Economiques 1, P. Askenazy and D. Cohen (eds.), Albin Michel, (2008).
  
• “Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles” (with Paul Frijters and Mike Shields), Journal of Economic Literature, (March 2008), Vol.46, no.1, pp.95-144.
• “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis”, (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Rich Lucas), Economic Journal, (June 2008), Vol.118, no.529, pp.F222-F243. [Here are large-format adaptation graphs] [July 2008 Press Release]
• “Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed” (with Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet), International Journal of Manpower, (2008), Vol.29, no.7, pp.591-609.
• Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages: Status or Signal?” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Economic Journal, (2009), Vol.119, no.536, pp.430-447. [March 2008 Press Release]
• “Job Security and Job Protection” (with Fabien Postel-Vinay), Oxford Economic Papers, (2009), Vol.61, no.2, pp.207-239.
• “Measuring well-being across Europe:  Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings”, (with Felicia Huppert, Nic Marks,  Johannes Siegrist,  Alois Stutzer, Joar Vittersø and Morten Wahrdorf), Social Indicators Research, (2009). Vol.91, no.3, pp.301-315.
• “Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Journal of the European Economic Association, (2009), Vol.7, no.2-3, pp. 519-527.
• “Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Schmollers Jahrbuch, (2009), Vol.129, no.2, pp. 251-260.
• “Valuing Jobs Via Retirement: European Evidence” (with Yarine Fawaz), National Institute Economic Review, (2009), No.209, pp. 88-103.
• “Boon or Bane? Well-being, Others’ Unemployment, and Labor-Market Risk” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Labour Economics, (2010), Vol.17, no.1, pp.52-61
• “Effort and Comparison Income” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming. [pdf]
• “Work, Jobs and Well-being Across the Millennium”, in E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (Eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press. forthcoming. [pdf]
• “Where Should We Live?”, Review of Economic Analysis, forthcoming. [pdf]
• “Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe” (with Claudia Senik), Economic Journal, forthcoming. [pdf]
• “Promouvoir la réciprocité dans le travail”, In P. Askenazy & D. Cohen (Eds.), Nouvelles Questions D'Economie Contemporaine. Economiques 2. Paris: Albin Michel, 2010, forthcoming.
  

          Working Papers


• “Well-Being in Panels” (with Andrew Oswald). [December 2002]
• “The Economics of Drug Legalization”. [May 2003]
• “Inequality-Aversion and Income Mobility: A Direct Test”. [June 2003]
• “Looking for Labour Market Rents Using Subjective Data”. [September 2003]
• “Kahneman meets the Quitters: Peak-End Behaviour in the Labour Market” (with Yannis Georgellis). [February 2004]
• “Deliver us from Evil: Religion as Insurance” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [December 2005] [March 2008 Press Release]
  
• “The Curved Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Age” (with Andrew Oswald). [October 2006]
• “Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being is U-Shaped in Age”. [November 2007]
• “Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life". [November 2008]
• “Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals” (with Carine Milcent). [November 2008]
• “Stepping Off the Hedonic Treadmill: Individual Differences in Response to Marriage, Divorce, and Spousal Bereavement”, (with Anthony D. Mancini and George A. Bonanno). [November 2008]
• “Let Us Pray: Religious Interactions In Life Satisfaction” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [January 2009]
• “Upward Social Mobility, Wellbeing and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS” (with Emanuela D'Angelo). [March 2009]
• “Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being” (with Fabrice Etilé). [May 2009]
• “Worker Effort and Organisational Commitment in OECD Countries”. [October 2009]
• “Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health” (with Bénédicte Apouey). [December 2009]
• “Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS” (with Yannis Georgellis). [January 2010]
• “Blue Mink or Morrissey? And Other Questions on Cultural Integration in the UK”, PSE, mimeo.
  
• “Marital Separation and Social Norms: The Role Of Unemployment” (with Anne Solaz).
• “Getting a Good Night: Unemployment and Sleep”.
• “Income and Happiness: a semi-parametric investigation” (with Valentin Patilea).
• “Values, Votes and Slopes: Political Behaviour and the Marginal Utility of Income” (with Fabrice Etilé).
  
• “Adaptation in the East” (with Ekaterina Uglanova).

Citations

Teaching

I teach in the Master's Programmes at the EHESS/Paris 1, and (sometimes) Lyon II.

Here are some ideas for Master's Dissertation Topics.

1. Income Comparisons, the Easterlin Paradox and Public Policy: Presentation1, Presentation2, Presentation3, Document1, Document2.
2. Self-Employment: Presentation1, Document1.
3. Subjective Well-Being in the Labour Market: Wages, Compensating Differentials and Rents; and Unemployment Benefits. Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
4. Job Quality and Worker Effort:  Presentation1.
5. Employment, Unions and Politicians: Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1.
6. Gender and labour market outcomes: Presentation1, Document1.

Editorial

*    Journal of Happiness Studies (2000-)
 *    Revue d’Economie Politique (2004-)
 *    Advances in Research on Quality of Life (2005-) 
 *    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2008-)
*    British Journal of Industrial Relations (2010-)

 


Refereeing. 380+ Referee's Reports for:

Actualité Economique	Journal of Official Statistics
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	Journal of Political Economy
American Economic Review	Journal of Positive Psychology
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique	Journal of Population Economics
Applied Economics Quarterly	Journal of Public Economics
Applied Research in Quality of Life	Journal of Socio-Economics
British Journal of Industrial Relations	Journal of Sports Economics
Bulletin of Economic Research	Journal of the European Economic Association
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
Canadian Journal of Economics	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
Eastern Economic Journal	Labour
Economic and Industrial Democracy	Labour Economics
Economic Journal	Management Science
Economic Systems	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Economica	Oxford Economic Papers
Economics and Philosophy	Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Economics Letters	Papers in Regional Science
Economics of Education Review	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Economics of Transition	Perspectives on Psychological Science
Economie et Prévision	Psychological Bulletin
Economie et Statistique	Psychological Science
Empirica	Public Finance Review
Empirical Economics	Quarterly Journal of Economics
European Economic Review	Recherches Economiques de Louvain
European Journal of Operational Research	Research on Aging
European Journal of Political Economy	Review of Economic Studies
Feminist Economics	Review of Economics and Statistics
Frontiers in Finance and Economics	Review of Economics of the Household
Games and Economic Behavior	Review of Income and Wealth
Gender, Work and Organization	Revue d'Economie Politique
Health Economics	Revue Economique
Health Policy	Ricerche Economiche
Industrial and Labor Relations Review	Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Industrial Relations	Science
Industrial Relations Journal	Scottish Journal of Political Economy
International Economic Review	Social Choice and Welfare
International Journal of Management and Decision Making	Social Forces
International Journal of Manpower	Social Indicators Research
International Sociology	Social Science and Medicine
Journal of Applied Econometrics	Southern Economic Journal
Journal of Applied Economics	Sociological Methods and Research
Journal of Development Economics	The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	The Manchester School
Journal of Economic Inequality	World Bank Economic Review
Journal of Economic Literature	World Development
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Economic Surveys
Journal of European Social Policy
Journal of Happiness Studies
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Human Development
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization

How did I get here?

Some Links

Interesting things about fairness and well-being research can be found in the following places

• ISQOLS website
• OZqols website
• Ruut Veenhoven's website
• Ed Diener's website.
• Andrew Oswald's website
• Ernst Fehr's website
• Alois Stutzer's website
  
• The New Economics Foundation.

Don't forget the Labour Economics Gateway here.



Interesting things about football can be found in the following places

• Football results and gossip from the first five divisions in England can be found at soccernet.
• Are Leyton Orient the worst team in London? This site will let you know.
• Are you sad enough to want to know the results from League Division Eight? See here then.
• US Palaiseau! Easily the best team in, er, Palaiseau.
  

And we all know that you can never listen to enough music while you're working.

• Who Said Hip-Hop was Dead? Quannum and Solesides refute the case.
• And check out Deep Puddle Dynamics for some serious What The Hell moments.
  
• Who Said Finns Can't Rap? Oh look, here's another one. And what's more....broken beats, sub-bass and grainy video: Antiall have it all. I used to have a link to them, but it has disappeared into the Ether....
• Wobbly Ambient Electronica is cool. Boards of Canada's turntable is playing at the wrong speed.
• Who Said a Triple Lead Guitar Attack was Passé? Run for the hills (of Arkansas), where Black Oak Arkansas will show you what you've been missing (nice washboard too).
• Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki has a pretty good choir. Check out the bass.
• How minimal can you get? Richie Hawtin knows.
• I can't remember the way you used to be: the Charlatans (UK). 
• Doors......lead to other doors. The Associates. 
• This Ain't Really Life; It's Nothing But A Movie. Gil Scott-Heron.
• With a movie camera - The Cinematic Orchestra.
• My office hasn't been the same since I discovered Etherbeat radio: "The Urban Alternative"
• And more radio than you can throw a stick at: Iceberg Radio.
  
• Any label which signed Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band is OK with me: Ze Records.
• Bass for your Face: Public Enemy.
• Groove Salad: "Listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco". That's what it says on their website.
• Damon and Naomi. Download Beautiful Close Double....and weep.
• Finger Licking Good Y'All. Time to remember how good Trouble Funk were.
• I reckon Burial is ice-washed deep-space soul. But then again what the hell do I know?
• This is the best ever old-school song; unfortunately so is this. No, wait a minute: this is surely even better...
  
• I like Fools' Gold as much as the next man, but here's another total gem from the Stone Roses.
• Lemmy gives his opinion on certain journal referees. Actually it's Larry Wallis, ex-Pink Fairies, on vocals.
  
• Ah, preposterous: the magnificent I, Ludicrous.
• And what did Tiim Gaine sound like before Stereolab, you ask? Actually like this Indie Wah-Wah classic. I seem to remember that McCarthy came from Barking, where I lived when I wrote my thesis. Or was that the Wolfhounds? Or the Godfathers?
• And all of this is just imagination: Shriekback.
  
• Being a moderately poor guitar player myself, I am partial to wig-outs. Here are two mighty fine ones, both old and new.
  

Dubious Links between Research and Music Department.

• The 2001 Economica paper includes a quotation from the great Eubie Blake.
• The 2008 International Journal of Manpower paper is named after a Billy Bragg song.
• The 2009 Economic Journal paper includes a line from Gimme a Bullet.
• One of our religion papers was inspired by the monumental Black Oak Arkansas ("Our Religion Is Music")
• Our new work on Adaptation in the East will, I hope, include a line from Billy Bragg's St Swithin's Day.
• My discussion of Georgiadis and Manning's chapter in the Cultural Integration book is based on Melting Pot and Bengali in Platforms.
  
• I would like to write a paper on the absence of compensating differentials called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". But I probably won't.
  

Identify the Lyrics Department. Know which songs these come from? Then you may win a great prize*

• "Here I am, growing up and growing old. Watching my friends swallow cultures whole"
• "How do you come to having fun with everyone but me girl?"
• "Alabama would be heaven if the Lord was there"
• "Jobs for the boys, and a tip for the wrecking crew. Truth of it is that it's plain you've not got a clue"
• "These are Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children"
  

* You probably won't win anything at all.


(Extremely out of Date) Current co-authors, in alphabetical order.

• Carole Brunet
• Ed Diener
• Fabrice Etilé
• Paul Frijters
  
• Yannis Georgellis
• Nicolai Kristensen
  
• Orsolya Lelkes
  
• Jean-Yves Lesueur
  
• Youenn Lohéac
• Rich Lucas
• David Masclet
  
• Carine Milcent
  
• Andrew Oswald
• Valentin Patilea
  
• Fabien Postel-Vinay
• Mike Shields
  
• Anne Solaz
• Augustin Vicard
• Marie-Claire Villeval
• Niels Westergaard-Nielsen
  

 
 

Cursus professionnel

 

Liens

Recherche sur le bien-etre et la qualité de la vie

ISQOLS website
OZqols website
Ruut Veenhoven's website
Ed Diener's website.
Andrew Oswald's website
Ernst Fehr's website

Et des liens tout aussi interéssant sur le foot

Des résultats des cinq premières divisions anglaises: soccernet.
Leyton Orient : l'équipe la pire de tout Londres ?
Oui; c'est triste : les résultats des divisions six à huit...