Richard Easterlin

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PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Economics Swarthmore College

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Ainley Easterlin is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He is best known for the economic theory named after him, the Easterlin paradox. Another of his contributions is the Easterlin hypothesis about long waves of baby booms and busts.

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Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence (1974) (4686)
Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all (1995) (3059)
Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory (2001) (2598)
Explaining happiness (2003) (1026)
The happiness–income paradox revisited (2010) (949)
The High Price of Materialism (2004) (661)
Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography (2006) (614)
An economic framework for fertility analysis. (1975) (610)
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? (1981) (609)
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare (1987) (570)
Birth And Fortune (1980) (373)
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being (2003) (372)
China’s life satisfaction, 1990–2010 (2012) (351)
Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven (2005) (335)
Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience (1969) (319)
The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future (2006) (319)
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany (2006) (288)
The Fertility Revolution: A Supply--Demand Analysis. (1986) (276)
The American baby boom in historical perspective (1962) (271)
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare. (1982) (258)
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism (2008) (258)
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800 (2000) (249)
How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality. (1999) (237)
Happiness in Economics (2002) (237)
Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (1980) (232)
Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox (2009) (219)
Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective (1996) (214)
The Conflict between Aspirations and Resources (1976) (210)
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States (1976) (204)
PRIVATE MATERIALISM, PERSONAL SELF-FULFILLMENT, FAMILY LIFE, AND PUBLIC INTEREST THE NATURE, EFFECTS, AND CAUSES OF RECENT CHANGES IN THE VALUES OF AMERICAN YOUTH (1991) (196)
The fertility revolution: a supply-demand analysis. (1987) (195)
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy† (2013) (192)
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence (2013) (168)
The Impact of Modern Economic Growth on Urban–Rural Differences in Subjective Well-Being (2011) (168)
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor (2005) (165)
Interregional Differences in Per Capita Income, Population, and Total Income, 1840-1950 (1960) (153)
Toward a more general economic model of fertility determination: endogenous preferences and natural fertility. (1980) (140)
The Fertility Revolution (1985) (139)
Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men (2008) (138)
What will 1984 be like? Socioeconomic implications of recent twists in age structure (1978) (137)
A puzzle for adaptive theory (2005) (128)
Effects of Population Growth on the Economic Development of Developing Countries (1967) (123)
Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification (2008) (108)
Does human fertility adjust to the environment (1971) (100)
Influences in European Overseas Emigration before World War I (1961) (99)
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries (2009) (97)
Life Cycle Welfare: Trends and Differences (2001) (93)
The economics of happiness (2004) (85)
Birth and Fortune. The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare. (1982) (84)
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence (2007) (79)
On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes (1966) (77)
Farms and farm families in old and new areas: the northern states in 1860 (1978) (75)
Factors in the decline of farm family fertility in the United States: some preliminary research results (1976) (75)
Happiness of Women and Men in Later Life: Nature, Determinants, and Prospects (2003) (73)
Population, Laborforce, and Long Swings in Economic Growth (1970) (73)
How have American baby boomers fared? Earnings and economic well-being of young adults, 1964–1987 (1990) (73)
Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle (2011) (70)
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence (2007) (70)
Fertility and development. (1980) (64)
Preference changes among American youth: family work and goods aspirations 1976-86. (1991) (57)
Preferences and prices in choice of career: The switch to business, 1972–1987 (1995) (56)
Subjective well-being and economic analysis: a brief introduction (2001) (52)
Retirement prospects of the baby boom generation: a different perspective. (1990) (51)
Population patterns in the past (1978) (51)
Well‐Being, Front and Center: A Note on the Sarkozy Report (2010) (48)
Life cycle welfare: evidence and conjecture (2001) (47)
The new age structure of poverty in America: permanent or transient? (1987) (44)
New estimates of fertility and population in the United States : a study of annual white births from 1855 to 1960 and of completeness of enumeration in the censuses from 1880 to 1960 (1964) (43)
Demographic Influences on Economic Stability: The United States Experience (1978) (43)
Population issues in American economic history: a survey and critique. (1977) (43)
Industrial revolution and mortality revolution: Two of a kind? (1995) (39)
Twentieth-Century American Population Growth (2000) (36)
2. The Economics and Sociology of Fertility: A Synthesis (2015) (35)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950. Volume 1, Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables (1958) (34)
Echoes of the baby boom and bust: Recent and prospective changes in living alone among elderly widows in the united states (1995) (34)
Application of Granger-Sims causality tests to monthly fertility data, 1958–1984 (1988) (32)
The Reluctant Economist (2004) (31)
Growth and happiness in China, 1990–2015 (2016) (29)
The outlook for higher education: a cohort size model of enrollment of the college age population 1948-2000. (1981) (28)
Economic preconceptions and demographic research: a comment. (1986) (27)
The Reluctant Economist. Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography, by Tore Thonstad (2004) (26)
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness (2009) (24)
Is There an 'Iron Law of Happiness?' (2005) (24)
How Parents Have Coped: The Effect of Life Cycle Demographic Decisions on the Economic Status of Pre (1990) (22)
The Easterlin Paradox (2020) (22)
Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note (2002) (20)
American Population since 1940 (1980) (17)
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood (2016) (17)
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification (2006) (17)
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? A Caveat (2004) (16)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States 1870-1950. Volume II: Analyses of Economic Change. (1961) (16)
Factors affecting fertility control in India: a cross-sectional study. (1984) (16)
Measuring Employment and Unemployment (1964) (16)
Review Symposium@@@World Development Report 1984 (1985) (14)
Israel's Development: Past Accomplishments and Future Problems (1961) (14)
The Globalization of Human Development (2000) (14)
Homicide and fertility rates in the United States: a comment. (1979) (13)
Cross Sections are History (2013) (13)
Set Point Theory and Public Policy (2014) (12)
The Income — Happiness Relationship (2002) (12)
LONG TERM REGIONAL INCOME CHANGES: SOME SUGGESTED FACTORS (2005) (12)
Life satisfaction of rich and poor under socialism and capitalism (2012) (11)
The demand for family planning: a new approach. (1988) (11)
Manpower in economic growth : the American record since 1800 (1966) (11)
Birth history, age structure, and post World War II fertility in ten developed countries: an exploratory empirical analysis. (1982) (11)
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 (1984) (10)
Life Satisfaction in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism (2014) (10)
Long swings in u.s. demographic and economic growth: some findings on the historical pattern (1965) (9)
The economic impact of prospective population changes in advanced industrial countries: an historical perspective. (1991) (9)
The Escalation of Material Goals: Fingering the Wrong Culprit (2007) (9)
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era (2019) (8)
The estimation of natural fertility: a micro approach. (1984) (8)
Do People Adapt to Poorer Health? Health and Health Satisfaction over the Life Cycle (2016) (8)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States 1870-1950: II. Analyses of Economic Change. (1961) (8)
An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness (2021) (7)
Happiness and economic growth : The evidence Discussion Paper (2013) (7)
Life Transitions and Life Satisfaction During Young Adulthood (2016) (7)
Happiness and Economic Growth (2014) (6)
An Economist’s Road to Subjective Well-Being (2014) (6)
Household Behavior (1980) (6)
Changing impact of population swings on American economy (1978) (6)
Paradox Lost? (2016) (5)
The Reluctant Economist: Preferences and Prices in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business (2004) (5)
The impact of modernization on the motivation for fertility control. (1988) (5)
Beyond Gender Differences in U.S. Life Cycle Happiness (2005) (5)
Implications of the Demographic History of Developed Countries for Present-Day Underdeveloped Nations (1960) (5)
The Story of a Reluctant Economist (1997) (5)
Introduction to "Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries" (1980) (4)
Here comes another baby boom. (1979) (4)
The Changing Circumstances of Child‐Rearing (1982) (4)
Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87 (1993) (4)
Determinants of Fertility Control in Egypt (1988) (3)
Changes in Labor Force Participation of Persons 55 and Over Since World War II: Their Nature and Causes (1984) (3)
The Current Fertility Decline and Projected Fertility Changes (1968) (3)
The effect of life cycle demographic decisions on the economic status of pre-school age children 1964-1987. (1989) (3)
Life Satisfaction: Can We Produce It? (2004) (3)
Analyses of economic change (1960) (3)
Analysis of WFS data in a socio-economic synthesis framework. (1982) (3)
[Demographic influence on economic stability: the United States experience]. (1978) (2)
The Reluctant Economist: Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? (2004) (2)
Determinants of fertility control. (1988) (2)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950. I: Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables. (1958) (2)
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income? (2023) (2)
Economics and the Use of Subjective Testimony (2004) (2)
An Interpretation of the Kuznets and Department of Commerce Income Concepts (1953) (2)
The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. By Douglass C. North. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. Pp. xvi, 304. $6.75 (1962) (2)
"Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950," A Review@@@Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950@@@Vol. I: Methodological Considerations and References Tables@@@Vol. II: Analyses of Economic Growth@@@Vol. III: Demographic Analyses and Inte (1968) (2)
Policy Implications of the Sarkozy Report Draft 11-14-10 (2010) (2)
International Migration: 1945-1957. (1961) (2)
China’s well-being since 1990 (2014) (2)
Should economists be dependent on official fertility projections (1992) (2)
Structures of American Social History. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 206. $12.95 (1981) (1)
Locational restructuring and financial crises (2000) (1)
Dorothy Stahl Brady, 1903–1977 (1978) (1)
American Youth Are Becoming More Materialistic (2018) (1)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950: Vol. I, Methodological Considerations and Reference Tables. (1959) (1)
Toward the cumulation of demographic knowledge (1987) (1)
How Much Have We Learnt About Fertility Change During Modernization?@@@The Fertility Revolution: A Supply-Demand Analysis. (1987) (1)
Kuznets Cycles in U.S. Population Growth and Fertility (1962) (1)
Appendix for Chapter 3 (1968) (1)
24. Population: The Economics of the Long Run (1977) (1)
Reply to Bogue (1976) (1)
Economic Growth Increases People’s Well-Being (2017) (1)
The Reluctant Economist: Is Economic Growth Creating a New Postmaterialistic Society? (2004) (1)
Some Perspectives on Population Policy (1970) (1)
Echoes of the baby boom: differential trends in living alone among elderly widows 1965-90. (1992) (1)
Boom's Progress (1981) (1)
The Reluctant Economist: America's Baby Boom and Bust, 1940–1980: Causes and Consequences (2004) (1)
Appendix C: Detailed Notes to Appendix A and B Tables (1962) (0)
Appendix A: Basic Data (1962) (0)
Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics.. By Fogel Robert William, Fogel Enid M., Guglielmo Mark, and Grotte Nathaniel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 168. $32.00, hardcover (2013) (0)
Title : Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (1980) (0)
Appendix to Chapter 5 (2018) (0)
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view. (2023) (0)
Does Money Make People Happy? (2021) (0)
Appendix B: Analyses of Components of Change in Total White and Total Native White Fertility (1962) (0)
Three Revolutions of the Modern Era (2019) (0)
To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. By Lee A. Craig. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xiv, 161 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-8018-4529-7.) (1994) (0)
Critiquing the Paradox (2021) (0)
Abramovitz, Moses (Born 1912) (1987) (0)
IN THE LIGHT OF LONGER-TERM EXPERIENCE (2007) (0)
Internal Income Inequality (1980) (0)
An Economist’s Road to Subjective Well-Being (2014) (0)
Measuring Happiness (2021) (0)
Book Review:National Policy for Economic Welfare at Home and Abroad Robert Lekachman (1962) (0)
THE NATURE, EFFECTS, AND CAUSES OF RECENT CHANGES IN THE VALUES OF (2016) (0)
Fertility and Fertility Research: Where are They Going? A Comment on the Macunovich Paper (1996) (0)
Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism (2008) (0)
Staff Reports: National Income and Capital Formation (1956) (0)
Dream on, Professor! (2021) (0)
Family Life and Happiness (2021) (0)
INCOME A ND H APPINESS: T OWARDS A U NIFIED THEORY (2001) (0)
The Fertility Revolution, a Supply-Demand Analysis (1987) (0)
Possibilities of Economic Progress. A. J. Youngson (1960) (0)
Richard a. Easterlin: Interviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff (2008) (0)
The effect of immigration on natives ’ well-being in Europe (2019) (0)
IN SEX-AGE SPECIFIC PARTICIPATION RATES (2007) (0)
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth United States 1870-1950. Tome II. Analyses of Economic Change (1961) (0)
Product Review: The High Price of Materialism (2004) (0)
India: UN mission evaluation of the family planning program. (1970) (0)
Appendix for Chapters 6 and 7 (1968) (0)
The Reluctant Economist: New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition (2004) (0)
Appendix to Chapter 7 (2019) (0)
Economics (1966) (0)
More on Money and Happiness (2021) (0)
Appendix to Chapter 2 (2019) (0)
The Record of Global Economic Development. By Eric Jones. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xviii, 226. (2003) (0)
Economic development, the family, and income distribution: Foreword by Richard A. Easterlin (1989) (0)
The Reluctant Economist: Preface (2004) (0)
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited (2011) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
ABSTRACT Cross Sections Are History (2013) (0)
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010 (2013) (0)
How Does Health Affect Happiness? (2021) (0)
BOOM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (2007) (0)
The Analytical Model: Recent and Prospective Experience (1968) (0)
How Can I Increase My Happiness? (2021) (0)
Front matter, Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (1980) (0)
Draft #1 – Please do not cite or quote without permission INCOME AND HAPPINESS IN THE UNITED STATES (2004) (0)
Economics: SIMON KUZNETS. Postwar Economic Growth: Four Lectures. Pp. 148. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964. $4.25 (1966) (0)
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries (2021) (0)
The Reluctant Economist: Kuznets Cycles and Modern Economic Growth (2004) (0)
The Reluctant Economist: Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind? (2004) (0)
Differential Changes in Sex-Age Specific Participation Rates (1968) (0)
Historical Patterns and Preliminary Causal Analysis (1968) (0)
Who Is Happier: Young or Old? Women or Men? (2021) (0)
The Reluctant Economist: Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States (2004) (0)
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution (2021) (0)
Explaining happiness trends in Europe (2022) (0)
Approaches to Economic Development. By Norman S. Buchanan and Howard S. Ellis. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xiv, 494. $5.00 (1957) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective (1970) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective (1970) (0)
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics? (2021) (0)
Foreword to "The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective" (1962) (0)
Your Happiness Comrade-in-arms (2021) (0)
Policy Implications of the Sarkozy Report.doc-NeoOffice Writer (2010) (0)
Happiness or GDP? (2021) (0)
Appendix to Chapter 6 (2018) (0)
Books Received (1962) (0)
General and Miscellaneous (1997) (0)
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries (2021) (0)
Front matter, The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective (1962) (0)
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.? (2021) (0)
Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution . Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353. (1992) (0)
Conclusions and possible implications (2018) (0)
Fertility and Scarcity in America. By Peter H. Lindert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 395 (1980) (0)
Recent and Projected Labor Force Growth in the Light of Longer-term Experience (1968) (0)
Reasons for Kuznets Cycles in Fertility of Different Population Groups (1962) (0)
Origins of Growth (0)
Appendix for Chapter 4 (1968) (0)
The American Baby-Boom in Historical Perspective@@@Land, People and Economy in Malaya (1965) (0)

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