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RICHARD A. EASTERLIN Biographical Sketch RICHARD A. EASTERLIN Biographical Sketch Department of Economics University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089-0253 (213) 740-6993 Fax (213) 740-8543 e-mail: [email protected] Education: University of Pennsylvania, 1948-53; A.M., 1949; Ph.D., 1953. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1943-1945; M.E. with distinction, 1945. Honors and Fellowships: Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association, 2006 Distinguished Researcher Award, International Society for Quality of Life Studies, 2006 Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Center for Excellence in Teaching, USC, 2006 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2002 Fellow, Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, 1999 - Honorary doctorate, Lund University, Sweden, May 1998 Irene B. Taeuber Award, Population Association of America, 1993 Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1988-89 Recipient, Raubenheimer Award for Teaching and Research, Univ. of Southern California, 1988 Board of Directors, National Bureau of Economic Research (Rep. of Econ. History Assn.), 1986-1997 Recipient, Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. of Southern California, 1987 Fellow, Econometric Society, 1983 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 1980-81 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978 Walker-Ames Professor, University of Washington, 1977 Visiting Centennial Professor, Texas A&M University, 1976 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1970-71 University of Michigan Sesquicentennial Award, 1967 Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1965-66 Israel Summer Fellowship, 1959 Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral Research Training, 1951-52 Teaching and Administrative Positions: University of Southern California University Professor and Professor of Economics, 1999 - Professor of Economics, 1982 - 1999 University of Pennsylvania Instructor, 1948-51, 1952-53; Assistant Professor, 1953-56; Associate Professor, 1956-60; Professor of Economics, 1960-78; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics, 1978-82. Chairman, Dept. of Economics, 1958-60, 1961-62, 1965, 1968. Associate Dean for Budget and Planning of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1974-79. University of Warwick, England, Visiting Professor, Spring, 1978 2 Stanford University, Visiting Professor of Economics, 1960-61 Research Positions: National Bureau of Economic Research Member, Research Staff, 1956-66; Research Associate, 1955-56 University of Pennsylvania Research Associate, Study of Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, 1953-55 Professional Organizations and Activities: Western Economic Association International (Vice-President 2008-2009) Economic History Association (Vice-President, 1971-72; President, 1979-80; Member, Council on Research in Economic History, Editorial Board, Journal of Economic History , 1965- 70, 1974-79). Population Association of America (Board of Directors, 1964-65, 1969-72; 1979; Second Vice-President, 1973-74; President, 1978; Editorial Consultant, Demography , 1965-67; Nominating Committee, 1973-74, 1979-80, Taeuber Award Selection Committee, Chairman, 1997). American Economic Association (Board of Editors, American Economic Review , 1965-67; Journal of Economic Literature , 1968-70, Nominating Committee 1998) International Society for Quality of Life Studies, Board of Directors, 2003 – Vice President, 2004 - Publications Books and Reports The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography , New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Editor, Happiness in Economics , Edward Elgar, 2002. Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization on “Subjective Well-Being and Economic Analysis,” vol. 45, no. 3, July, 2001. Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective , Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996 (French edition, Nouveaux Horizons, Paris, 2000; Swedish edition, SNS Forlag, Stockholm, 2001). Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare , 2nd edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. First edition, Basic Books, 1980. The Fertility Revolution: A Supply-Demand Analysis , (with Eileen M. Crimmins) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Immigration , (with D. Ward, W.S. Bernard, and R. Ueda), Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1982. Exploratory Study of the `Synthesis Framework' of Fertility Determination with WFS Core Questionnaire Data , (with Eileen M. Crimmins), WFS Scientific Reports, No. 40, London: World Fertility Survey, 1982. Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (editor), Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1980. American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States (edited with Lance E. Davis, and William N. Parker) New York: Harper and Row, 1972. 3 An Evaluation of the Family Planning Programme of the Government of India (co-author), prepared for the Government of India by a United Nations Advisory Mission, Report No. TAO/IND/50 (24 November), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1969. Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience , New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective , New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Occasional Paper 79, 1962. Also published without App. C in American Economic Review , LI:5, December 1961, 869-911. Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1890-1950 , V. I and II (with S. Kuznets, D.S. Thomas, E.S. Lee, A.R. Miller, and C.P. Brainerd), Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1957, 1960. The National Economic Accounts of the United States: Review, Appraisal, and Recommendation , a report to the Office of Statistical Standards, Bureau of the Budget, prepared by the National Accounts Review Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1957 (with other members of the National Accounts Review Committee. Articles “Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox” (with Laura Angelescu), IZA Discussion Paper No. 4060, 2009. Available at http://ftp.iza.org/dp4060.pdf. “Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries” (with Onnicha Sawangfa), IZA Discussion Paper No. 4000, 2009. Available at http://ftp.iza.org/dp4000.pdf. “Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , (forthcoming 2009). “Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization , 2008, 68:3-4, 433-444. “Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences Between American Women and Men”, Journal of Happiness Studies , 2008, 9:4, 601-619. "Introduction," in Elwood Carlson, The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom , Springer, 2008, xvii-xx. “The Escalation of Material Goals: Fingering the Wrong Culprit”, Psychological Inquiry , 2007, 18:1, 31-33. “Life Cycle Happiness and Its Sources: Intersections of Psychology, Economics and Demography”, Journal of Economic Psychology , 2006, 27:4, 463-482. “Happily Ever After? Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany” (with Anke C Zimmermann), Population and Development Review , 2006, 32:3, 511-528. “The Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future,” (with M. Joseph Sirgy, Alex C. Michalos, Abbott L. Ferriss, Donald Patrick and William Pavot), Social Indicators Research , 2006, 76:3, 343-466. “Building a Better Theory of Well-Being”in Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta (eds.), Economics & Happiness: Framing the Analysis , New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 29-64. “Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven,” Social Indicators Research , 2005, 74:3, 429 – 443. “A Puzzle for Adaptive Theory,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , 2005, 56: 4, 513- 521. “Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income? Caveat Emptor,” Social Indicators Research , 2005, 70:3, 243- 255. 4 “The Story of a Reluctant Economist” in Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan (eds.), Reflections of Eminent Economists . Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004. “The Economics of Happiness,” Daedalus , 2004, 133, Issue 2 - on happines, 26 - 33. “Life Satisfaction: Can We Produce It?” in Wolfgang Glatzer, Susanne von Below, Matthias Stoffregen (eds.), Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World , Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 347-357. “Explaining Happiness,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 100:19, September 16, 2003, 11176-11183. “Happiness of Women and Men in Later Life: Nature, Determinants, and Prospects,” in M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and A.Coskin Samli, eds., Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research . Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, 13-26. “Living Standards,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History , Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2003. “Baby Boom,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History , Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2003. “Is Reported Happiness Five Years Ago Comparable to Present Happiness? A Cautionary Note,” Journal of Happiness Studies , 2002, 3, 193-198. “The Income-Happiness Relationship,” in Wolfgang Glatzer, ed., Rich and Poor: Disparities, Perceptions, Concomitants . Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002, pp. 157-175. “Income and Happiness: Towards
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