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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
85
Citations
54397
World Ranking
214
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Andrew J. Oswald is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses multiple interdisciplinary fields with a focus on psychological well-being, health disparities, and behavioral economics. The scientist has contributed substantially to topics relevant to employment, welfare studies, decision-making, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

In terms of publication venues, Oswald has frequently published in the SSRN Electronic Journal with 11 works, followed by contributions to the Review of Income and Wealth with 3 publications. Additional venues include the Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Journal of Public Health.

Oswald collaborates regularly with a set of recurring coauthors, including:

  • Nattavudh Powdthavee (9 joint papers)
  • Redzo Mujcic (4 joint papers)
  • Lucía Macchia (3 joint papers)
  • Sally McManus (3 joint papers)
  • Ahmed Tohamy (3 joint papers)

Their research areas traverse various scientific domains such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Health
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Pharmacology

Main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Advanced Statistical Methods and Models

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Trends in Extreme Distress in the United States, 1993-2019" (2020), published in American Journal of Public Health
  • "Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations" (2021), published in Social Science & Medicine
  • "Happy Lottery Winners and Lottery-Ticket Bias" (2020), published in Review of Income and Wealth
  • "The Midlife Crisis" (2022), published in Economica
  • "The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test" (2021), published in Review of Income and Wealth

Best Publications

  • Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Satisfaction and comparison income

    Andrew E. Clark;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Unhappiness and Unemployment

    Andrew E. Clark;Andrew J. Oswald

  • What Makes an Entrepreneur

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Happiness and economic performance

    Andrew J. Oswald

  • Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert J. MacCulloch;Andrew J. Oswald

  • The macroeconomics of happiness

    Rafael Di Tella;Robert J. MacCulloch;Andrew J. Oswald

  • The wage curve

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age?

    Andrew Clark;Andrew Oswald;Peter Warr

  • Happiness and Productivity

    Andrew J. Oswald;Eugenio Proto;Daniel Sgroi

  • The Economic Theory of Trade Unions: An Introductory Survey

    Andrew J. Oswald

  • Latent entrepreneurship across nations

    David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald;Alois Stutzer

  • Wages, Profits, and Rent-Sharing

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald;Peter Sanfey

  • Does happiness adapt? A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges

    Andrew J. Oswald;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Money and mental wellbeing: a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins.

    Jonathan Gardner;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Does wage rank affect employees' well-being?

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Jonathan Gardner;Andrew J. Oswald;Jing Qian

  • An Introduction to the Wage Curve

    David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald

  • The Microeconomic Theory of the Trade Union

    Andrew J. Oswald

  • How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence

    Chris M. Wilson;Andrew J. Oswald

  • A simple statistical method for measuring how life events affect happiness

    Andrew E Clark;Andrew J Oswald

  • Comparison-concave utility and following behaviour in social and economic settings

    Andrew E. Clark;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

    David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;David G. Blanchflower;Andrew J. Oswald;Andrew J. Oswald

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Blanchflower
David G. Blanchflower Dartmouth College
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Nattavudh Powdthavee University of Warwick
Andrew E. Clark
Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics
Lawrence M. Kahn
Lawrence M. Kahn Cornell University
Ian Walker
Ian Walker Lancaster University
Rafael Di Tella
Rafael Di Tella Harvard University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Alexander Weiss
Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh
Peter Warr
Peter Warr University of Sheffield
David Haig
David Haig Harvard University

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