Publications:
Kaiser, C., Muggleton, N., Quispe-Torreblanca, E., De Neve, J.E. (2025). Two Paradoxes in Women's Wellbeing. Science Advances, 11(10), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt1646. (Open Access)
Oparina, E., Kaiser, C., Gentile, N., Tkatchenko, A., Clark, A., De Neve, J.E., D'Ambrosio, C. (2025). Machine Learning in the Prediction of Human Wellbeing. Scientific Reports 15 (1632). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84137-1. (Open Access)
Han, J., & Kaiser, C. (2024). Time use and happiness: US evidence across three decades. Journal of Population Economics, 37(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-00982-4. [Download preprint]
Kaiser, C., Oswald A.J. (2022). The Scientific Value of Numerical Measures of Human Feelings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), 1-7, e2210412119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210412119. (Open access)
Kaiser, C., Oswald A.J. (2022). Redistribution, Well-being, and the Problem of the Unknown Reporting Function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(50), 1-3, e2217750119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217750119. (Open access)
McGuire, J., Kaiser, C., Bach-Mortensen, A. (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective wellbeing and mental health in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Human Behaviour. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01252-z. [Download preprint]
Kaiser, C. (2022). Using memories to assess the intrapersonal comparability of wellbeing reports. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 193, 410-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.009. [Download preprint]
Kaiser, C. (2022). Whence the Happiness Revolution? A Book Review of Richard Easterlin's An Economist's Lessons on Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00519-0.
Kaiser, C., Trinh, N.A. (2021) Positional, mobility and reference effects: How does social class affect life satisfaction in Europe? European Sociological Review. 37(5), 713-730. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa067. [Download preprint]
Betthaeuser, B., Kaiser, C., Trinh, N.A. (2021). Regional Variation in Inequality of Educational Opportunity across Europe. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 7, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211019890. (Open access)
Kaiser, C. (2020). People do not adapt. New analyses of the dynamic effects of own and reference income on life satisfaction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 177, 494-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.06.003. [Download preprint]
Gugushvili, A., Kaiser, C. (2020). Equality of opportunity is linked to lower mortality in Europe. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 74(2), 151-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-212540. (Open access)
Kaiser, C., Vendrik, M.C.M. (2019). Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries. In: The Economics of Happiness (pp.27-55). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_2. [Download preprint]
Kaiser, C. (2018). DRM: Stata module to fit Sobel's Diagonal Reference Model. Statistical Software Components S458506. Boston College Department of Economics. https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s458506.html.
Working Papers:
How much can we learn from happiness data? (with Maarten Vendrik). [Download preprint]
Quantifying the Wellbeing Cost of Income Inequality.
Consolidated Trajectories? Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course (with Philipp Lersch and Nhat An Trinh). Draft available on request.
Rational response behaviour to survey questions. Draft available on request.
Suicide and subjective wellbeing in the UK: A statistical inquiry (with Andrew J. Oswald and Ekaterina Oparina). Draft available on request.
Why you should measure subjective changes (with Alberto Prati). Draft available on request.
The robustness of cardinality assumptions in wellbeing research: A systematic reassessment (with Anthony Lepinteur).
Last updated: May 2025