Andrew Oswald,
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science
Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick. He is also an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Wellbeing Research Centre at Manchester Harris College, University of Oxford, and Chair of the IZA Network Advisory Panel at the IZA Institute in Bonn. His research is principally in applied economics and quantitative social science. It includes work on the empirical study of job satisfaction, human happiness, mental health, pain and the business cycle, and labour productivity. He serves on the board of editors of Science. Previously at Oxford and the London School of Economics, with spells as Lecturer, Princeton University (1983-4); De Walt Ankeny Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College (1989-91); Jacob Wertheim Fellow, Harvard University (2005); Visiting Fellow, Cornell University (2008); Research Director, IZA Bonn (2011-12); Visiting Fellow, University of Zurich (2016); Visiting Fellow, Yale University (2016). He is an ISI Highly-Cited Researcher.
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Latest papers below
"Temperature Variability and Natural Disasters: Evidence for Economists,
Climate Researchers, and Policy-Makers."
with Aatishya Mohanty, Nattavudh Powdthavee and, Cheng Keat Tang.
October 2024
"Inequality, well-being, and the problem of the unknown reporting function."
with Caspar Kaiser,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, December 2022
"The Scientific Value of Numerical Measures of Human Feelings."
with Caspar Kaiser,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, November 2022
"Why Do Relatively Few Economists Work on Climate Change? A Survey."
with Nico Pestel, IZA Discusion Paper Series.
"Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations."
with Lucía Macchiaa, Social Science & Medicine.
"The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test."
with Jeffrey R. Bloem, Review of Income and Wealth.
"Age-Based Policy in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic:
How Common are Multi-Generational Households?."
with Thijs Van Rens, November 2020.
"Do Europeans Care about Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings."
with Adam Nowakowski, September 2020.
"Trends in Extreme Distress in the USA, 1993-2019"
with David G. Blanchflower, American Journal of Public Health, September 2020.
"A Graph of Extreme Distress Through Time in the USA"
Appendix
"Individual COVID-19 fatality risk (and the consequences for universities)"
with Nattavudh Powdthavee, 06 June 2020.