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Nattavudh Powdthavee

Nattavudh Powdthavee

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
8789
World Ranking
4379
National Ranking
739

Overview

Nattavudh Powdthavee is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on subfields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, clinical psychology, social psychology, and safety research.

Their recent papers address themes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its various psychological and social impacts. Notable publications include:

  • "COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends" (2020, Journal of Public Economics)
  • "Assessing the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on unhappiness, loneliness, and boredom using Google Trends" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "When face masks signal social identity: Explaining the deep face-mask divide during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Risk compensation during COVID-19: The impact of face mask usage on social distancing." (2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied)

Their research topics have concentrated primarily on:

  • Experimental behavioral economics studies
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and mental health
  • COVID-19 pandemic impacts
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Gender, labor, and family dynamics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • PLoS ONE

Powdthavee has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including:

  • Yohanes E. Riyanto
  • Andrew J. Oswald
  • Sarah Flèche
  • Abel Brodeur
  • Redzo Mujcic

Best Publications

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

    Andrew J. Oswald;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends

    Abel Brodeur;Andrew E. Clark;Sarah Fleche;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Putting a price tag on friends, relatives, and neighbours: Using surveys of life satisfaction to value social relationships

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • WHAT PREDICTS A SUCCESSFUL LIFE? A LIFE-COURSE MODEL OF WELL-BEING

    Richard Layard;Andrew E. Clark;Francesca Cornaglia;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FOR A MIDLIFE NADIR IN HUMAN WELL-BEING: RESULTS FROM FOUR DATA SETS.

    Terence Chai Cheng;Nattavudh Powdthavee;Andrew J. Oswald

  • Is personality fixed? Personality changes as much as "variable" economic factors and more strongly predicts changes to life satisfaction

    Christopher J. Boyce;Alex M. Wood;Nattavudh Powdthavee;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

    Nattavuudh Powdthavee

  • The Origins of Happiness

    Andrew Clark;Sarah Flèche;Richard Layard;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Daughters and left-wing voting

    Andrew J. Oswald;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom

    Robert Metcalfe;Nattavudh Powdthavee;Paul Dolan

  • What's the good of education on our overall quality of life?: a simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia

    Nattavudh Powdthavee;Warn N. Lekfuangfu;Mark Wooden

  • The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course

    Andrew E. Clark;Sarah Flèche;Richard Layard;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence *

    Andrew J. Oswald;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • How much does money really matter? Estimating the causal effects of income on happiness

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Can having internal locus of control insure against negative shocks? Psychological evidence from panel data

    Hielke Buddelmeyer;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • What happens to people before and after disability? Focusing effects, lead effects, and adaptation in different areas of life.

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Death, happiness and the calculation of compensatory damages

    Andrew J. Oswald;Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

    Nattavudh Powdthavee;Bernard van den Berg

  • Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children: A Within-Family Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being

    Nattavudh Powdthavee;Anna Vignoles

  • I can’t smile without you: Spousal correlation in life satisfaction

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

  • Life satisfaction and sexual minorities: evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom

    Nattavudh Powdthavee;Mark Wooden

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex M. Wood
Alex M. Wood London School of Economics and Political Science
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick

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