This conference draws together three researchers with international reputations in the economics of happiness. They will present new findings, and discuss how the happiness can help answer fundamental questions of economic growth, inequality, labour markets and household production. Attend this event, and you will never again describe economics as 'the dismal science'.

Program

8.15am Coffee

8.45am Andrew Leigh, The Australian National University - Chair’s Welcome

9am Betsey Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania - Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

10am Morning Tea

10.30am Paul Frijters, Queensland University of Technology - Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data

11.30pm Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania - The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

12.30pm Roundtable on 'Happiness Research – Where to Next?'

1pm Close

The conference is organised by Andrew Leigh and is presented by the Economics Program in the Research School of Social Sciences. Attendance is free. To raise our life satisfaction, those planning to attend are asked to send an email to andrew.leigh@anu.edu.au.