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Overview

Lars Osberg is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and specializes in fields within the social sciences and health professions. Their research spans multiple subfields including general health professions, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, social psychology, and soil science.

The main topics of their work focus on employment and welfare studies, income, poverty, and inequality, populism and right-wing movements, media influence and politics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, agricultural risk and resilience, and global health care issues.

Osberg's recent publications demonstrate a cross-disciplinary approach and cover various aspects of economic insecurity, social attitudes, and health outcomes. Selected papers include:

  • "Are Populists Insecure About Themselves or About Their Country? Political Attitudes and Economic Perceptions," 2021, Social Indicators Research
  • "Welfare-based income insecurity in the US and Germany: evidence from harmonized panel data," 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Blown off-course? Weight gain among the economically insecure during the great recession," 2020, Journal of Economic Psychology
  • "A few people make all the difference - an international comparison of 'fair' pay differentials," 2023, International Journal of Sociology
  • "Economic Insecurity and Well-being," 2021, DESA Working paper

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Osberg include Barry Watson, Nicholas Rohde, Stephen M. Law, Kam Ki Tang, and Conchita D'Ambrosio. These collaborations suggest a networked approach to addressing complex social and economic research questions.

Osberg's research has been published in a range of academic venues, indicative of the interdisciplinary scope of their work. Key publication venues are:

  • Social Indicators Research
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • International Journal of Sociology
  • DESA Working paper

Their contributions frequently address social indicators and behavioral aspects of economic insecurity, welfare policies, and the sociopolitical dimensions of income inequality. The integration of health perspectives within social science frameworks is also a notable element of their research profile.

Best Publications

  • “Fair” Inequality? Attitudes toward Pay Differentials: The United States in Comparative Perspective:

    Lars Osberg;Timothy Smeeding

  • An Index of Economic Well–Being for Selected OECD Countries

    Lars Osberg;Andrew Sharpe

  • Fishing in Different Pools: Job-Search Strategies and Job-Finding Success in Canada in the Early 1980s

    Lars Osberg

  • HOW SHOULD WE MEASURE THE “ECONOMIC” ASPECTS OF WELL‐BEING?

    Lars Osberg;Andrew Sharpe

  • International Comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference

    Lars Osberg;Kuan Xu

  • Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

    Stephen P. Jenkins;Lars Osberg

  • The effect of economic insecurity on mental health: Recent evidence from Australian panel data.

    Nicholas Rohde;K.K. Tang;Lars Osberg;Prasada Rao

  • An index of economic well-being for Canada

    Lars Osberg;Andrew Sharpe

  • Poverty in Canada and the United States: measurement, trends, and implications

    Lars Osberg

  • The Measurement of Economic Well-being

    Lars Osberg

  • Income Distribution and Social Expenditures

    Jonathan A. Schwabish;Timothy M. Smeeding;Lars Osberg

  • Searching for a will o' the wisp: An empirical study of the NAIRU in Canada

    M.A. Setterfield;D.V. Gordon;L. Osberg

  • Poverty and the extent of child obesity in Canada, Norway and the United States.

    S. A. Phipps;P. S. Burton;L. S. Osberg;L. N. Lethbridge

  • International Comparisons of Trends in Economic Well-being

    Lars Osberg;Andrew Sharpe

  • Income Distribution and Social Expenditures: A Crossnational Perspective

    Jonathan A. Schwabish;Timothy M. Smeeding;Lars Spencer Osberg

  • Income Distribution and Public Social Expenditure: Theories, Effects and Evidence

    Lars Osberg;Timothy M. Smeeding;Jonathan Schwabish

  • The Index of Economic Well-Being

    Lars Osberg;Andrew Sharpe

  • The Equity/Efficiency Trade-Off in Retrospect

    Lars Osberg

  • Poverty Intensity: How Well Do Canadian Provinces Compare?

    Lars Osberg;Kuan Xu

  • The economic implications of social cohesion

    Lars Osberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science
D.S. Prasada Rao
D.S. Prasada Rao University of Queensland
Edward N. Wolff
Edward N. Wolff New York University
William J. Baumol
William J. Baumol New York University

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