Nattavudh Powdthavee
Biographic Data
| ID | 267135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nattavudh Powdthavee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nattavudh |
| FAMILY NAME | Powdthavee |
| SIGNATURE | POWDTHAVEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9345-4882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 565 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Rising temperatures and physical pain: Evidence from over 2 million U.S. residents
Curb Your Positive Stereotypes: Counter-Stereotypical Interventions Improve Attention to Inequality and Discrimination Against Asian Americans
Despite 1 in 10 Asian Americans living in poverty, their struggles are often overlooked due to the persistence of “model minority” stereotypes. This study investigates whether counter-stereotypical narratives—emphasizing either economic hardship or psychological challenges—can reduce stereotype-driven misperceptions and improve recognition of the inequalities faced by Asian Americans. Using a nationally representative U.S. sample ( N = 2,983), th…
Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda
Collective misperceptions of social norms—pluralistic ignorance—are widespread. • There are few applications of pluralistic ignorance research to biodiversity topics. • Pluralistic ignorance may hinder individual and system changes for biodiversity conservation. • This Perspective offers a framework to develop impactful pluralistic ignorance research in the biodiversity domain. • We suggest investigating pluralistic ignorance, its consequences an…
How do humans respond to large realized losses
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Well-Being Panel Data to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
This article uses the well-being valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the well-being impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the UK, the British Household Panel Survey, we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of informal care: (i) the anticipatory nature of informal care; and (ii) the sensitivity of income estimates used in valu…
Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK
Do ‘green’ environmental concerns – such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution – deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of initially childless men and women in the UK. The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less …
The Midlife Crisis
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle‐aged citizens in our datasets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most prosperous era in human history. This is paradoxical and troubling. The finding is consistent, however, with the prediction—one little‐known to economists—of E…
Does money strengthen our social ties? Longitudinal evidence of lottery winners
We study the effect of lottery wins on the strength of social ties and its different types, including support networks, in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on the strength of social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons such as talking to …
Income is more protective against pain in more equal countries
Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: A nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales
Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
Covid-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
What makes people happy? This book seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The book offers a new perspective on …
Is there a link between air pollution and impaired memory? Evidence on 34,000 english citizens
Who Got the Brexit Blues? The Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
We use the 2015–16 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We employ measures of both evaluative and affective wellbeing, namely life satisfaction and mental distress, respectively. We find that those reporting lower life satisfaction in 2015 were more likely to express a preference for leaving the EU in 2016,…
Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people’s well-being? How would policy change if well-being were the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a uniquely comprehensive range of evidence from longitudinal data on over one hundred thousand individuals in Britain, the Uni…
Lower-rated publications do lower academics’ judgments of publication lists: Evidence from a survey experiment of economists
Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation
This article builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on their children's early skill formation. We propose that this subjective belief is determined partly by locus of control (LOC), i.e. the extent to which individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC measured at the 12th we…
Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Top incomes and human well-being: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well‐Being: Results from Four Data Sets
There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus, some researchers believe the U is a statistical artefact. We re-examine this fundamental cross-disciplinary question. We suggest a new test. Drawing on four data sets, and only within-person changes in well-being, we docum…
My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply within Households
What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom
Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi‐experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well…
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Policy-makers who care about well-being need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). We show that the most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health, followed by the child's conduct. The least powerful predictor is the child's…
Is Personality Fixed? Personality Changes as Much as “Variable” Economic Factors and More Strongly Predicts Changes to Life Satisfaction
Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well‐Being: Results from Four Data Sets
There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus, some researchers believe the U is a statistical artefact. We re-examine this fundamental cross-disciplinary question. We suggest a new test. Drawing on four data sets, and only within-person changes in well-being, we docum…
Are there Geographical Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa
Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa
This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross‐sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, it is shown that victims report significantly lower well‐being than the non‐victims, ceteris paribus . Happiness is lower for non‐victimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, some evidence is found that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if regional crime ra…
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children: A Within-Family Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being
Does more education lead to better health habits? Evidence from the school reforms in Australia
What happens to people before and after disability? Focusing effects, lead effects, and adaptation in different areas of life
Who Got the Brexit Blues? The Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
We use the 2015–16 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We employ measures of both evaluative and affective wellbeing, namely life satisfaction and mental distress, respectively. We find that those reporting lower life satisfaction in 2015 were more likely to express a preference for leaving the EU in 2016,…
I can’t smile without you: Spousal correlation in life satisfaction
How important is rank to individual perception of economic standing? A within-community analysis
Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation
This article builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on their children's early skill formation. We propose that this subjective belief is determined partly by locus of control (LOC), i.e. the extent to which individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC measured at the 12th we…
Trust and Happiness: Comparative Study Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake
Anticipation, Free-Rider Problems, and Adaptation to Trade Unions: Re-Examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
The author studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. Using eleven waves (5-15) of the British Household Panel Survey, he documents evidence rejecting the paradox of dissatisfied union members. By separating union "free-riders" from union-covered non-members in fixed-effects equations, he finds significant anticipation effects to unionism for both prospective and covered non-members of both gend…
Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK
Do ‘green’ environmental concerns – such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution – deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of initially childless men and women in the UK. The paper shows that those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be substantially less …
Ill-health as a household norm: Evidence from other people's health problems
The Midlife Crisis
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle‐aged citizens in our datasets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most prosperous era in human history. This is paradoxical and troubling. The finding is consistent, however, with the prediction—one little‐known to economists—of E…
How do humans respond to large realized losses
Top incomes and human well-being: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Jobless, Friendless and Broke: What Happens to Different Areas of Life Before and After Unemployment
Using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of the British people, this paper explores how different areas of a person's life evolved before and after unemployment. There is evidence that unemployment is preceded, on average, by a year of dissatisfaction with one's finance and job, for both genders. Having entered unemployment, men and women reported a significant and persistent drop in satisfaction with finance and social life, which …
Lower-rated publications do lower academics’ judgments of publication lists: Evidence from a survey experiment of economists
What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood
Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa
This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross‐sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, it is shown that victims report significantly lower well‐being than the non‐victims, ceteris paribus . Happiness is lower for non‐victimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, some evidence is found that criminal victimization hurts, but hurts less if regional crime ra…
Are there Geographical Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa
Putting a price tag on friends, relatives, and neighbours: Using surveys of life satisfaction to value social relationships
Does happiness adapt? A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges
How important is rank to individual perception of economic standing? A within-community analysis
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children: A Within-Family Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being
I can’t smile without you: Spousal correlation in life satisfaction
What happens to people before and after disability? Focusing effects, lead effects, and adaptation in different areas of life
Ill-health as a household norm: Evidence from other people's health problems
Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
What determines human beings' political preferences? Using nationally representative longitudinal data, we show that having daughters makes people more likely to vote for left-wing political parties. Having sons leads people to favor right-wing parties. The paper checks that our result is not an artifact of family stopping rules, discusses the predictions from a simple economic model, and tests for possible reverse causality
And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi‐Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well‐Being in the United Kingdom
Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi‐experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well…
Anticipation, Free-Rider Problems, and Adaptation to Trade Unions: Re-Examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
The author studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. Using eleven waves (5-15) of the British Household Panel Survey, he documents evidence rejecting the paradox of dissatisfied union members. By separating union "free-riders" from union-covered non-members in fixed-effects equations, he finds significant anticipation effects to unionism for both prospective and covered non-members of both gend…
Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well‐Being
This article is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to significantly underestimate the effects of monthly salary and hours worked at generating the ‘highly’ satisfied workers, while lowering the incidence of th…
Jobless, Friendless and Broke: What Happens to Different Areas of Life Before and After Unemployment
Using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of the British people, this paper explores how different areas of a person's life evolved before and after unemployment. There is evidence that unemployment is preceded, on average, by a year of dissatisfaction with one's finance and job, for both genders. Having entered unemployment, men and women reported a significant and persistent drop in satisfaction with finance and social life, which …
Is Personality Fixed? Personality Changes as Much as “Variable” Economic Factors and More Strongly Predicts Changes to Life Satisfaction
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Policy-makers who care about well-being need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). We show that the most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health, followed by the child's conduct. The least powerful predictor is the child's…
What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia
Would you Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in The Folly of Predictions
Standard economic models assume that the demand for expert predictions arises only under the conditions in which individuals are uncertain about the underlying process generating the data and there is a strong belief that past performances predict future performances. We set up the strongest possible test of these assumptions. In contrast to the theoretical suggestions made in the literature, people are willing to pay for predictions of truly ran…
Does more education lead to better health habits? Evidence from the school reforms in Australia
Trust and Happiness: Comparative Study Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake
My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply within Households
Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Psychology (38 works) · Economics (33 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (24 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (20 works) · Demographic economics (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works)