Richard Layard

Datos Biográficos

ID957254
NOMBRERichard Layard
NOMBRESRichard
APELLIDOLayard
FIRMALAYARD R
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Economics and Political Science
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS63
TOTAL DE CITAS500
TOTAL COMO AUTOR63
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1970
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H8

  • Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers' rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations

    Open AccessAndrew E Clark, Maria Cotofan et al.ARTICLEEconomica2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 17

    Information on both wages and job quality is needed in order to understand the occupational dispersion of wellbeing. We analyse subjective wellbeing in a large UK sample to construct a measure of ‘overall reward’, the sum of wages and the value of job quality, in 90 different occupations. If only wages are included, then labour market inequality is underestimated: the dispersion of overall rewards is one‐third larger than the dispersion of wages.…

  • Policy stringency and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLara B Aknin, Bernardo Andretti et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Public Health2022

    BACKGROUND: To date, public health policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have been evaluated on the basis of their ability to reduce transmission and minimise economic harm. We aimed to assess the association between COVID-19 policy restrictions and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this longitudinal analysis, we combined daily policy stringency data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker with psych…

  • Mental Health During the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessLara B Aknin, Jan‐emmanuel De Neve et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2022

    COVID-19 has infected millions of people and upended the lives of most humans on the planet. Researchers from across the psychological sciences have sought to document and investigate the impact of COVID-19 in myriad ways, causing an explosion of research that is broad in scope, varied in methods, and challenging to consolidate. Because policy and practice aimed at helping people live healthier and happier lives requires insight from robust patte…

  • The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education

    Open AccessAndrew Eric Clark, Maria Cotofan et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022

  • When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits

    Open AccessRichard Layard, Andrew Eric Clark et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2020

  • A happy choice

    Open AccessPaul Frijters, Andrew E Clark et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2020

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  • A happy choice

    Open AccessPaul Frijters, Andrew E Clark et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 10

    In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be based, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging the political agency of citizens and thus their own evaluations of their lives. We then turn to practica…

  • The Origins of Happiness

    Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche et al.BOOKThe Origins of Happiness2019

    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 …

  • A Happy Choice

    Open AccessPaul Frijters, Andrew Eric Clark et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2019

  • Origins of Happiness

    Andrew E Clark, Sarah Fleche et al.BOOKOrigins of Happiness2019

  • The Origins of Happiness

    Andrew E Clark, Nattavudh Powdthavee et al.BOOKOrigins of Happiness2018Citada por: 246

  • The Origins of Happiness

    Andrew E Clark, Nattavudh Powdthavee et al.BOOKOrigins of Happiness2018

    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…

  • Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness

    Open AccessSarah Fleche, Richard LayardARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015

  • Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness

    Open AccessSarah Fleche, Richard LayardARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015

  • What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

    Open AccessRichard Layard, Andrew E Clark et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2014Citada por: 37Referencias: 16

    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 Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

    Open AccessRichard Layard, Andrew Eric Clark et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2013

  • Measuring Subjective Well-Being

    Open AccessRichard LayardARTICLEScience2010

    How should human happiness and life-satisfaction be assessed?

  • What We Tried to Do

    Open AccessRichard LayardARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2009

  • The marginal utility of income

    Open AccessRichard Layard, Guy Mayraz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Economics2008

  • Happiness and Public Policy

    Open AccessRichard LayardARTICLEThe Economic Journal2006Citada por: 69Referencias: 3

    The theory behind public economics needs radical reform. It fails to explain the recent history of human welfare and it ignores some of the key findings of modern psychology. Indeed these two failings are intimately linked: it is because the theory ignores psychology that it is unable to explain the facts. The fact is that, despite massive increases in purchasing power, people in the West are no happier than they were fifty years ago. We know thi…

  • Unemployment

    Richard Layard, P R G Layard et al.BOOKUnemployment2005

    This book aims to provide a basis for better unemployment policy: showing how the lessons learned from experience and theory can be applied to greatly reduce the waste and misery of high unemployment. The book surveys the main aspects of the unemployment problem. It integrates macroeconomics with a detailed micro-analysis of the labour market. It uses a model to explain the puzzling post-war history of OECD unemployment and shows how unemployment…

  • Happiness

    Richard N Cooper, Richard LayardREVIEWForeign Affairs2005Citada por: 12

    In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the l…

  • What the Future Holds

    G John Ikenberry, Richard N Cooper et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2002

  • Tackling Inequality

    Open AccessRichard LayardBOOKTackling Inequality1999

    Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on edu

  • Labor market institutions and economic performance

    Stephen Nickell, Richard Layard

    Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European economies are about to disintegrate unless their labor markets become more flexible. Basically, we are told, Europe has the wrong sort of labor market institutions for the modern global economy. These outdated institutions both raise unemployment and lower growth rates. The truth of propositions such as these depends on which labor market institutions really are bad …