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  1. Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress

    Article • Applied Research in Quality of Life, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor, prof. dr. Ruut Veenhoven

  2. Obituary Richard Easterlin (1926-2024)

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  3. Governments should prioritize well-being over economic growth

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  4. Employee Dissatisfaction and Intentions to Quit: New Evidence and Policy Recommendations

    Article • The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, May 2025, De Gruyter

    Kelsey O'Connor

  5. The Happiness Revolution in Europe

    Article • March 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Kelsey O'Connor

  6. Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence From the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

    Article • Kyklos, February 2025, Wiley

    Kelsey O'Connor

  7. Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, August 2024, Elsevier

    Kelsey O'Connor

  8. Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing

    Article • July 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Kelsey O'Connor

  9. Measuring societal progress1

    Article • July 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Kelsey O'Connor

  10. Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Richard Easterlin, Kelsey O'Connor

  11. Easterlin paradox

    Article • February 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Kelsey O'Connor

  12. A year of pandemic: Levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter. Evidence from ten countries

    Article • PLOS One, February 2023, PLOS

    Kelsey O'Connor

  13. Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

    Article • Applied Research in Quality of Life, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  14. How has Happpiness changed in Europe and why?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Richard Easterlin, Kelsey O'Connor

  15. Are economic growth and well-being compatible? Welfare reform and life satisfaction in Japan

    Article • Oxford Economic Papers, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kelsey O'Connor

  16. Labor Market Policy and Subjective Well-Being During the Great Recession

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  17. Economic growth and well-being beyond the Easterlin paradox

    Article • January 2021, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Kelsey O'Connor

  18. The Easterlin Paradox

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  19. The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 2020, Elsevier

    Kelsey O'Connor

  20. One in Three Luxembourg Residents Report their Mental Health Declined during the COVID-19 Crisis

    Article • International Journal of Community Well-Being, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelsey O'Connor

  21. Life Satisfaction and Noncognitive Skills: Effects on the Likelihood of Unemployment

    Article • Kyklos, March 2020, Wiley

    Kelsey O'Connor

  22. The Easterlin Paradox

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Kelsey O'Connor

  23. Does the U-shape Pattern in Life Cycle Satisfaction Obscure Reality? A Response to Blanchflower

    Article • Review of Behavioral Economics, January 2020, Emerald

    Kelsey O'Connor

  24. Longer, more optimistic, lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 2019, Elsevier

    Kelsey O'Connor

  25. Does oil really curse democracy? A long-run time-series analysis of 127 countries

    Article • Resources Policy, August 2018, Elsevier

    Kelsey O'Connor

  26. Happiness and Welfare State Policy Around the World

    Article • Review of Behavioral Economics, December 2017, Emerald

    Kelsey O'Connor

  27. Experienced Life Cycle Satisfaction in Europe

    Article • Review of Behavioral Economics, January 2017, Emerald

    Kelsey O'Connor

  28. Who Suffered Most from the Great Recession? Happiness in the United States

    Article • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, January 2017, Russell Sage Foundation

    Kelsey O'Connor

  29. OIL CURSE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES: WHICH INSTITUTIONS ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO THE CURSE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES?

    Article • Contemporary Economic Policy, June 2014, Wiley

    Kelsey O'Connor