Andrew Clark PSE, Ecole normale supérieure  48 boulevard Jourdan  75014 Paris France Tel : 33 (0)1 80 52 18 54 Mail: Andrew.Clark@ens.fr CNRS Directeur de recherche/Research Professor.

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• Research Fellow at IZA.
• Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Scientific Council of the CEPREMAP Well-Being Observatory.
• Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher.

Acronym information (AKA "PSE, PSE. So good they named it twice"): I used to be at DELTA, but now I'm at PSE. That's because DELTA merged with CERAS and the two research groups of CEPREMAP to form PSE, which thus now has four different governing bodies (CNRS-EHESS-ENPC-ENS). I hope that everything is now clear. But of course, four is not really enough, so in January 2010 we merged with INRA-LEA (who are already on the Jourdan campus), adding the INRA as a fifth governing body. And in 2020  INRA merged with IRSTEA to become INRAE.

Oh, and PSE is sort of joining forces with (some of) University Paris 1 to form the Paris School of Economics. To sum up, I am at PSE, which is part of PSE.

And to prove it's true, we have finally moved to a new building, still on the Jourdan campus. And we were all happy ever after (apart from the shutters that don't shut). 

But wait! PSE is now part of PSL, and may have a new programme called PGSE. And no, I am not making this up.

Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics. The use of job and life satisfaction data to analyse labour market phenomena. Modelling the utility function: comparisons and habituation. Social interactions, and social learning. Job quality. The economic analysis of drug markets and cigarette consumption. Generallly funky stuff.

Thèmes de recherche

Microéconomie Appliquée. L'analyse du marché du travail en faisant appel aux données sur la satisfaction dans le travail et la satisfaction dans la vie. La modélisation de la fonction d'utilité : normes, comparaisons et accoutumance. Les interactions sociales et l'apprentissage social. La qualité de l'emploi. L'analyse économique de la consommation des produits à risque. 

A Full CV in PDF format is here.

Publications

• UK unemployment, Heinemann Educational, 1989, Second edition, 1993 (both with Richard Layard). Third edition, 1997 (with Richard Layard and Marcus Rubin).
• "Efficient Bargains and the McDonald-Solow Conjecture", Journal of Labor Economics, (October 1990), 8, pp.502-528.
• "Trade Union Utility Functions: A Survey of Union Leaders' Views" (with Andrew Oswald), Industrial Relations, (Fall 1993), 32, pp.391-411.
• "Adding up the Pros and Cons of Legalization", International Journal of Drug Policy, (Autumn 1993), 4, pp.116-121.
• "Unhappiness and Unemployment" (with Andrew Oswald), Economic Journal, (May 1994), 104, pp.648-659. 
• "Changes in Economic Activity" (with Shirley Dex, Kim Perren, David Rose and Mark Taylor), in Changing Households, Buck, N., Gershuny, J., Rose, D., and Scott, J. (eds.), ESRC Research Centre Press, 1994.
• "Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in Age" (with Andrew Oswald and Peter Warr), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (Spring 1996), 69, pp.57-81.
• "Job Satisfaction in Britain", British Journal of Industrial Relations, (June 1996), 34, pp.189-217.
• "Satisfaction and Comparison Income" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (September 1996), 61, pp.359-81.
• "Job Satisfaction and Gender: Why are Women so Happy at Work?", Labour Economics, (December 1997), 4, pp.341-372.
• "Comparison-concave Utility and Following Behaviour in Social and Economic Settings" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (October 1998), 70, pp.133-155.
• "Job Satisfaction, Wage Changes and Quits: Evidence from Germany" (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Research in Labor Economics , (1998), 17, pp.95-121.
• "Are Wages Habit-Forming? Evidence from Micro Data", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (June 1999), 39, pp.179-200.
• "Utilité Relative ou Utilité Absolue ? État des Lieux", Revue Economique, (May 2000), 51, pp.459-471.
• "What Really Matters in a Job? Hedonic Measurement Using Quit Data", Labour Economics, (May 2001), 8, pp.223-242.
• "Scarring: the Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment", (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Economica, (May 2001), 68, pp.221-241.
• "Well-Being and Wage Arrears in Russian Panel Data", (with Mathilde Maurel), HSE Economic Journal, (May 2001), 5, pp.179-193.
• "Interactions In Labour Force Status, As Revealed By Proxy Utility Data", Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, (July-December 2001), 63-64, pp.21-37.
• "Do Health Changes Affect Smoking? Evidence from British Panel Data", (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (July 2002), 21,  pp.533-562.
• "A Simple Statistical Model for Measuring How Life Events Affect Happiness" (with Andrew Oswald), International Journal of Epidemiology, (December 2002), 31, pp.1139-1144.
  
• "Re-Examining Adaptation and the Setpoint Model of Happiness: Reaction to Changes in Marital Status" (with Ed Diener,Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (March 2003), 84, pp.527-539.
  
• "Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data", Journal of Labor Economics, (April 2003), 21, pp.323-351.
• "Unemployment Alters the Set-Point for Life Satisfaction" (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Psychological Science, (January 2004), 15, pp.8-13.
• "La modélisation collective de l'offre de travail : mise en perspective et application aux données britanniques" (with Hélène Couprie and Catherine Sofer), Revue Economique, (July 2004), 55, pp.767-789. 
• “Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries” (with Fabrice Etilé, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Claudia Senik, and Karine van der Straeten), Economic Journal, (March 2005), 115, pp.C118-C132.
  
• “What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries” in Job Quality and Employer Behaviour, Bazen, S., Lucifora, C. and Salverda, W. (eds.), Palgrave, 2005, pp.11-30.
• “Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, (September 2005), 43, pp.377-400.
  
• “The (Unexpected) Structure of “Rents” on the French and British Labour Markets” (with Claudia Senik), Journal of Socio-Economics, (April 2006), 35, pp.180-196.
  
• “Health Changes and Smoking: An Economic Analysis” (with Fabrice Etilé), Substance Use and Misuse, (April 2006), 41, pp.427-451.
  
• “Effort, revenu et rang : une étude expérimentale” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Revue Economique, (May 2006), 57, pp.635-643.
  
• “Don’t Give Up on Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour” (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (September 2006), 25, pp.958-978.
• “Do People Really Adapt to Marriage?” (with Rich Lucas), Journal of Happiness Studies, (November 2006), 7, pp.405-426.
• “Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration”, Applied Economics Quarterly, (December 2006), Vol.52, no.4, pp.291-308.
• “It wasn't me, It was them! Social Influence in Risky Behaviour by Adolescents” (withYouenn Loheac), Journal of Health Economics,(July 2007), Vol.26, no.4, pp.763-784.
• “Statut résidentiel et durée de chômage en France et au Royaume-Uni” (with Carole Brunet and Jean-Yves Lesueur), Revue Française d’Economie, (October 2007), Vol.22, no.2, pp.165-190.
• “Conditions de collecte et santé auto-déclarée : Une analyse sur données européennes”, (with Augustin Vicard), Economie et Statistique,  (December 2007), Vol.403-404, pp.143-163.   
  
• “La croissance rend-elle heureux ? La réponse des données subjectives”, (with Claudia Senik), in 27 Questions D'Economie Contermporaine. Economiques 1, P. Askenazy and D. Cohen (eds.), Albin Michel, (2008).
  
• “Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles” (with Paul Frijters and Mike Shields), Journal of Economic Literature, (March 2008), Vol.46, no.1, pp.95-144.
• “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis”, (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Rich Lucas), Economic Journal, (June 2008), Vol.118, no.529, pp.F222-F243. [Here are large-format adaptation graphs] [July 2008 Press Release]
• “Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed” (with Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet) International Journal of Manpower, (2008), Vol.29, no.7, pp.591-609.
• Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages: Status or Signal?” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Economic Journal, (2009), Vol.119, no.536, pp.430-447. [March 2008 Press Release]
• “Job Security and Job Protection” (with Fabien Postel-Vinay), Oxford Economic Papers, (2009), Vol.61, no.2, pp.207-239.
• “Measuring well-being across Europe:  Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings”, (with Felicia Huppert, Nic Marks,  Johannes Siegrist,  Alois Stutzer, Joar Vittersø and Morten Wahrdorf), Social Indicators Research, (2009). Vol.91, no.3, pp.301-315.
• “Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Journal of the European Economic Association, (2009), Vol.7, no.2-3, pp. 519-527.
• “Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Schmollers Jahrbuch, (2009), Vol.129, no.2, pp. 251-260.
• “Valuing Jobs Via Retirement: European Evidence” (with Yarine Fawaz), National Institute Economic Review, (2009), No.209, pp. 88-103.
• “Boon or Bane? Well-being, Others’ Unemployment, and Labor-Market Risk” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Labour Economics, (2010), Vol.17, no.1, pp.52-61.
• “Effort and Comparison Income” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (2010), Vol.63, no.3, pp.407-426.
• “Work, Jobs and Well-being Across the Millennium”, in E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (Eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2010). 
• “Promouvoir la réciprocité dans le travail”, In P. Askenazy & D. Cohen (Eds.), Nouvelles Questions D'Economie Contemporaine. Economiques 2. Paris: Albin Michel, (2010).
• “Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe” (with Claudia Senik), Economic Journal, (2010), Vol.120, no.544, pp. 573-594.
  
• “Where Should We Live?”, Review of Economic Analysis, (2010), Vol.2, no.1, pp.20-31.
• “Worker Well-Being in Booms and Busts”, in The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain, Wadsworth, J., and Gregg, P. (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011), pp. 128-143.“The Organisational Commitment of Workers in OECD Countries”, Management Revue, (2011), Vol.22, no.1, pp. 8-27.
• “Is Happiness Different From Flourishing? Cross-Country Evidence from the ESS”, (with Claudia Senik), Revue d’Economie Politique, (2011), Vol.121, no.1, pp. 17-34.
• “Stepping Off the Hedonic Treadmill: Individual Differences in Response to Marriage, Divorce, and Spousal Bereavement” (with George Bonanno and Anthony Mancini), Journal of Individual Differences, (2011), Vol.32, no.3, pp. 144–152.
• “Income and Happiness: Getting the Debate Straight”. Applied Research in Quality of Life, (2011), Vol.6, no.3, pp. 253-263.
• “Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals”, (with Carine Milcent), Journal of Health Economics, (2011), Vol.30, no.5, pp. 1103-1112.
• “Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being”, (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (2011), Vol.30, no.5, pp. 1124-1136.
• “Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?”, (with Claudia Senik), in Robert Peccoud (Ed.) Measure For Measure: How well do we Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, (2011), pp. 99-176. [French version « La croissance du PIB rendra-t-elle les habitants des pays en développement plus heureux ? », Revue d’Economie du Développement, (2011), Vol.25, no.2-3, pp. 113-190].
• “The causes of happiness and misery”, (with Richard Layard and Claudia Senik), Chapter 3 in the UN World Happiness Report. [Download here]
  
• “Beneath, Behind and Between: Social Comparisons and Adaptation”, Keio Economic Studies, (2012), Vol.48, pp. 123-125.
  
• “Dans les temps les pires, les goûts en ligne de mire”, in 5 crises, 11 nouvelles questions d’économie contemporaine. Economiques 3, P. Askenazy and D. Cohen (Eds.), Paris: Albin Michel, 2013, pp. 425-430.
• “Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS” (with Yannis Georgellis), Economica, (2013), Vol.80, pp. 496-512.
• “Social interactions and self-perceived health and well-being”, Revue d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, (2013), Vol.61, pp. S184-S188.
  
• “Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion: Does an Income Loss Have a Greater Effect on Well-Being than an Equivalent Income Gain?”, (with James Banks, Chris Boyce, Gordon Brown and Alex Wood), Psychological Science, (2013), Vol.24, pp. 2557-2562.
• “What Causes a Successful Life? A Model of the Life-Course”, (with Richard Layard, Francesca Cornaglia, Nick Powdthavee and James Vernoit), Economic Journal, (2014), Vol.124, pp. F720- F738.
• “The Great Happiness Moderation”, (with Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik), in Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries, A.E. Clark and C. Senik (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 32-139.
• “Income Comparisons in China”, (with Claudia Senik), in Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries, A.E. Clark and C. Senik (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 216-239.
• “Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio), Chapter 13 in the Elsevier Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.), Elsevier, 2015, pp.1147-1208.
  
• “Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health” (with Bénédicte Apouey), Health Economics, (2015), Vol. 24, pp.516–538.
• “Rising Aspirations Dampen Satisfaction”, (with Akiko Kamesaka and Teruyuki Tamura), Education Economics, (2015), Vol.23, pp.515-531.
• “Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi), Research on Economic Inequality, (2015), Vol.23, pp.1-22.
• “What’s the Use of Happiness?”, Preface to Glücksatlas 2015, Random House, pp.19-26.
• “What Makes a Good Job? Job Quality and Job Satisfaction”, IZA World of Labor, (2015), Article 215. [Link]
  
• “Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes”, (with Charlotte Cabane), Annals of Economics and Statistics, (2015), Vol. 119/120, pp. 123-148.
  
• “Adaptation and the Easterlin Paradox”, Chapter 5 in Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective, T. Tachibanaki (Ed.), New York: Springer, 2016, pp. 75-94.
  “Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life”, Chapter 4 in Policies for Happiness, S. Bartolini (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 62-94.
• “SWB as a Measure of Individual Well-Being” Chapter 16 in the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, M. Adler and M. Fleurbaey (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 518-552.
• “Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi), Review of Economics and Statistics, (2016), Vol. 98, pp. 591–600.
• “Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys”, (with Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik), Review of Income and Wealth, (2016), Vol. 62, pp. 405–419.
• “Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood”, (with Sophie Cetre and Claudia Senik), European Journal of Population, (2016), Vol. 32, pp. 445-473.
• “Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing”, (with Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman and Colin Green), Labour Economics, (2016), Vol. 42, pp. 151-158. [Link]
• “The key determinants of happiness and misery”, (with Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nick Powdthavee and George Ward), in J. Helliwell, R. Layard, and J. Sachs (Eds.), World Happiness Report, (2017), New York: Columbia Earth Institute, pp. 122-142.
• “Happiness, Income and Poverty”, International Review of Economics, (2017), Vol. 64, pp. 145–158.
• “When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons”, (with Claudia Senik and Katsunori Yamada), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, (2017), Vol. 70, pp. 1-9.
  
• “The Origins of Happiness” (with Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nick Powdthavee and George Ward), Princeton University Press (2018). [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11179.html]
  
• “Unfairness at Work: Well-Being and Quits”, (with Marta Barazzetta and Conchita D’Ambrosio), Labour Economics, (2018), Vol. 51, pp. 307-316.  [Published Version]
• “Ownership and Hospital Behaviour: Employment and Local Unemployment”, (with Carine Milcent), Social Science and Medicine, (2018), Vol. 202, pp. 151-161.  [Published Version]
• “Four Decades of the Economics of Happiness: Where Next?”, Review of Income and Wealth, (2018), Vol. 64, pp. 245-269.
• “Subjective and physiological measures of well-being: an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data”, (with Daniela Andrén, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Sune Karlsson and Niklas Pettersson), Economisk Debatt, (2019), Vol. 47, pp. 44-51.
• “Crime Victimisation Over Time and Sleep Quality”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Rong Zhu), Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, (2019), Article 100401.
  
• “Living Conditions and Well-Being: Evidence from African Countries”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio), South African Journal of Economics, (2019), Vol. 87, pp. 91-109.
• “Who Got the Brexit Blues? The effect of Brexit on subjective wellbeing in the UK”, (with Nattavudh Powdthavee, Paul Frijters and Anke Plagnol), Economica, (2019), Vol. 86, pp. 471-494.
• “The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data”, (with Anthony Lepinteur), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2019), Vol. 166, pp. 107-124.
• “A happy choice: Wellbeing as the goal of government”, (with Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard), Behavioural Public Policy, (2020), Vol. 4, pp. 126-165.
• “Taking a wellbeing-years approach to policy choice” (with Gus O’Donnell, Richard Layard, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Christian Krekel), British Medical Journal, (2020), 371:m3853.
• “The Impact of Terrorism on Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing”, (with Orla Doyle and Elena Stancanelli), Economic Journal, (October 2020), Vol. 130, pp. 2065–2104.
• “The Long-lasting Effects of Family and Childhood: Adult Wellbeing in British Cohort Data” (with Sarah Flèche and Warn Lekfuangfu), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (January 2021), Vol. 181, pp. 290-311.
• “Early-life correlates of later-life well-being: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study” (with Tom Lee), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (January 2021), Vol. 181, pp. 360-368.
• “COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends” (with Abel Brodeur, Sarah Flèche and Nattavudh Powdthavee), Journal of Public Economics, (January 2021), Vol. 193, 104346.
  
• “Childhood Circumstances and Young Adulthood Outcomes: The Role of Mothers’ Financial Problems”, (with Marta Barazzetta and Conchita D’Ambrosio), Health Economics, (February 2021), Vol. 30, pp. 342-357.
• “Job Quality and Workplace Gender Diversity in Europe”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Rong Zhu), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (March 2021), Vol. 183, pp. 420-432.
• “Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances”, (with David Blanchflower), Journal of Population Economics, (April 2021), Vol. 34, pp. 625–653.
• “Prenatal Economic Shocks and Birth Outcomes”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Nick Rohde), Economics and Human Biology, (May 2021), Vol. 41, 100964.
  
• “Economic Inequality and Subjective Well-being across the World”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio), in C. Gradín, M. Leibbrandt and F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 233-256.
• “Living in the Shadow of the Past: Financial Profiles and Well-Being”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Rong Zhu), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (July 2021), Vol. 123, pp. 910-939.
• “Online Learning, Teacher Quality and Student Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Huifu Nong, Hongjia Zhu and Rong Zhu), China Economic Review, (August 2021), Vol. 68, 101629. Elsevier China Economic Review Best Paper Award 2023.
  
• “The Fall in Income Inequality during COVID-19 in Four European Countries”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur), Journal of Economic Inequality, (September 2021), Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 489-507.
• “The Age U-shape in Europe: The Protective Role of Partnership”, (with Hippolyte D’Albis and Angela Greulich), Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, (2021), Vol.19, pp. 293-318.
• “Well-Being in Pandemic Times and Beyond”, Preface to Glücksatlas 2021, Random House, pp. 16-20
• “Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio, Lanlin Ding and Peng Nie), Health and Place, (January 2022), Vol. 73, 102743.
• “COVID-19 Compliance Behavior of Older People: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills”, (with Conchita D'Ambrosio, Ilke Onur and Rong Zhu), Economics Letters, (January 2022), Vol. 210, 110158.
• “A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France”, (with Anthony Lepinteur), Review of Economics and Statistics, (March 2022), Vol. 104, No. 2, pp. 386-398.
• “The Joneses in Japan: Income comparisons and financial satisfaction”, (with Claudia Senik and Katsunori Yamada), Japanese Economic Review, (April 2022), Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 351-372.
• “Pandemic Policy and Life Satisfaction in Europe”, (with Anthony Lepinteur), Review of Income and Wealth, (June 2022), Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 393-408.
  
• “Characteristics associated with COVID‑19 vaccine hesitancy”, (with Liyousew Borga, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur), Scientific Reports, (July 2022), 12:12435.
  
• “Occupational prestige and life satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?”, (with Emmanuel Apergis, Yannis Georgellis and Catherine Robinson), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (December 2022), Vol. 204, pp. 509-527.
• “Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Anthony Lepinteur, Alan Piper and Carsten Schröder), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, (December 2022), Vol. 101, 101952.
• “The impact of COVID-19 lockdown stringency on loneliness in five European countries”, (with Juan Carlos Caro, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Claus Vögele), Social Science and Medicine, (December 2022), Vol. 314, 115492.
• “Footsie,Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing”, (with Alex Bryson and Colin Green), Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, (December 2022), Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 197-211.
• “Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital”, (with Conchita D'Ambrosio, Simone Ghislandi, Anthony Lepinteur and Giorgia Menta), Journal of Health Economics, (January 2023), Vol. 87, 102718.
• “Life Satisfaction and the Human Development Index across the World”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur and Rémi Yin), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, (February 2023), Vol. 54, pp. 269–282.
• “Do Individuals Adapt to All Types of Housing Transitions?”, (with Luis Diaz Serrano), Review of Economics of the Household, (June 2023), Vol. 21, pp. 645–672.
• “Economic Insecurity and and Political Preferences”, (with Walter Bossert, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur), Oxford Economic Papers, (July 2023), Vol. 75, pp. 802–825.
• “Well-being and Working at Home during Covid-19”, (with Sonia Schifano, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff and Claus Vögele), Information Technology & People, (August 2023), Vol. 36, pp. 1851-186.
• “Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy”, (with Liyousew Borga, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur and Claus Vögele), Health Economics, (August 2023), Vol. 32, pp. 1659-1669
• “Variants of gender bias and sexual-orientation discrimination in career development”, (with Nicholas Litsardopoulos and George Saridakis), BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, (October 2023), Vol. 23, pp. 1175-1185.
• “Economic Insecurity and Health”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Rémi Yin), Review of Public Economics, (December 2023), Vol. 247, pp. 69-90. Alexandre Pedrós Prize 2023
  
• “Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur), Review of Economics of the Household, (December 2023), Vol. 21, pp. 1157–1190.
• “Teleworking and Life Satisfaction in Germany during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure”, (with Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur and Claudia Senik), Journal of Population Economics, (March 2024), Vol. 37, No. 1, Article 8.
• “Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations”, (with Maria Cotofan and Richard Layard), Economica, (April 2024), Volume 91, Issue 362, pp. 497-546. 
• “Where Does Money Matter More?”, (with Guðrún Svavarsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Gunnar Stefánsson), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (May 2024), Volume 221, pp. 350-365.
  
• “Taking Back Control? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Retirement on Locus of Control”, (with Rong Zhu), Economic Journal, (May 2024), Volume 134, Issue 660, pp. 1465–1493.
• “Take the Highway? Paved Roads and Well-Being in Africa”, (with Elodie Djemaï and Conchita D’Ambrosio), World Development, (November 2024), Volume 183, Article 106691.
• “Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, (with Alessio Rebechi, Anthony Lepinteur, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele and Conchita D’Ambrosio, Economics and Human Biology, (December 2024), Volume 55, Article 101427.
• “Insecurity on the Labour Market”, Review of Income and Wealth, (December 2024), Volume 70, pp. 914-933.
• “Machine Learning in the Prediction of Human Well-being”, (with Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Conchita D'Ambrosio), Scientific Reports, (January 2025), 15:1632.
• “What Makes a Satisfying Life? Predicting and Interpreting with Machine Learning Algorithms”, (with Niccolò Gentile, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Alexander Tkatchenko), Review of Income and Wealth, (May 2025), Vol. 71, Issue 2, e70003.
• “Subjective Equivalence Scales: The Economies of Scale in Europe”, (with Guðrún Svavarsdóttir, Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir and Gunnar Stefánsson), Journal of Economic Inequality, forthcoming.
  

Working Papers

• “Well-Being in Panels” (with Andrew Oswald). [December 2002]
• “The Economics of Drug Legalization”. [May 2003]
• “Inequality-Aversion and Income Mobility: A Direct Test”. [June 2003]
• “Looking for Labour Market Rents Using Subjective Data”. [September 2003]
• “Kahneman meets the Quitters: Peak-End Behaviour in the Labour Market” (with Yannis Georgellis). [February 2004]
• “Deliver us from Evil: Religion as Insurance” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [December 2005] [March 2008 Press Release]
  
• “The Curved Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Age” (with Andrew Oswald). [October 2006]
• “Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being is U-Shaped in Age”. [November 2007]
• “Let Us Pray: Religious Interactions In Life Satisfaction” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [January 2009]
•  “Marital Separation and Social Norms: The Role Of Unemployment” (with Anne Solaz).
• “Getting a Good Night: Unemployment and Sleep”.
• “Values, Votes and Slopes: Political Behaviour and the Marginal Utility of Income” (with Fabrice Etilé).
• “Adaptation in the East” (with Ekaterina Uglanova).
• “The Value of Diplomacy. Bilateral Relations and Immigrant Well-Being” (with Leonardo Becchetti and Elena Giachin). [February 2011]
• “Upward Social Mobility, Wellbeing and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS” (with Emanuela D'Angelo). [June 2013]
• “Good, Better, Best. The Social Context of Labour-Market Success”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio).  [February 2015]
• "Happy to Stay: Job Satisfaction and Retirement”, (with Kostas Mavromaras and Zhang Wei) [February 2015]
• “Retirement and the Marginal Utility of Income”, (with Yarine Fawaz).  [September 2015]
• “Early Maternal Employment and Non-cognitive Outcomes in Early Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from British Birth Cohort Data" (with Warn Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward). [November 2015]
• “Breaking up for the Kids’ Sake: Evidence from a British Birth Cohort" (with Warn Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward).
  [December 2015]
• “Does Compulsory Education Really Increase Life Satisfaction?”, (with Se-eun Jung), Inha University IBER Working Paper Series No. 2017-6.
• “Bechdel at the Box Office: Cinema Success and Gender Outcomes in 58 Countries”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Giorgia Menta).

On Tour!

Teaching

I teach in the Master's Programmes at the EHESS/Paris 1, and at Paris 1/Paris V.

Here are some ideas for Master's Dissertation Topics.

1. Income Comparisons, the Easterlin Paradox and Public Policy: Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
2. Self-Employment: Presentation1, Document1.
3. Subjective Well-Being in the Labour Market: Wages, Compensating Differentials and Rents; and Unemployment Benefits. Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
4. Job Quality and Worker Effort:  Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
5. Employment, Unions and Politicians: Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
6. Gender and labour market outcomes: Presentation1, Document1.
   
7. Measurement and Validity: Presentation (Reading list for this presentation)
   

PhD Students

1. Luke Haywood, “Qualité de l’Emploi dans le Marché du Travail”. Co-direction with Jean-Marc Robin. December 2012. (DIW Berlin)
2. Alan Piper, “The Happiness of the Young in Great Britain: The Role of Education”. Co-direction with Geoff Pugh and Nick Adnett. March 2013. (University of Flensburg)
3. Jason Gagnon, “Three Essays on Migration and Labour Markets in Developing Countries”. April 2014. (OECD)
4. Se-eun Jung, “Essays on Risk Aversion and Labor Markets”. June 2014. (Cergy-Pontoise)
5. Sarah Flèche. “Essays in Happiness Economics: Local and Regional Perspectives and Global Trends”. Co-direction with Claudia Senik. October 2014. (LSE)
6. Abel Brodeur, “Essays on Behavioural Economics”. August 2015. (Ottawa)
7. Augustin Vicard, “Six essais sur l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes et l’utilisation de variables subjectives en économie de la santé”. December 2015 (INSEE)
8. Claudia Hupkau, “Economic Disadvantage, Policy Design and Individual Decision Making”. Co-direction with François Maniquet. August 2017 (CUNEF, Madrid)
9. Anthony Lepinteur. “Household Working Time, Legal Norms on the Labor Market and Subjective Wellbeing”. Co-direction with David Margolis. September 2017 (Université du Luxembourg)
10. Arthur Souletié, “The Causes and Consequences of Risky Behaviours”.  May 2019 (Veltys)
11. Martin Fernandez-Sanchez. “Essays in Applied Economics: Migration, Identity and Well-Being”. Co-direction with Hillel Rapoport. November 2020 (LISER)
12. Louis Margolis. “Fighting and Escaping Homelessness in France”. Co-direction with Camille Hemet.
    
13. Andrea Pop. “Household Structure and Well-Being”. Co-direction with Pierre-Yves Geoffard.
    

Supervision of Masters Dissertations: 65

PhD Juries: 81
Aix Marseille Université (2), University of British Columbia, Brunel, Copenhagen (3), University of Cyprus, EHESS (19), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Imperial, Kingston, Leeds, London School of Economics (3), Louvain la Neuve, Luxembourg (2), Lyon 2 (5), Maastricht, Universiti Malaya, Maryland, Nottingham (2), Orléans, Paris 1 (11), Paris 2, Paris X, Paris 12, Paris Dauphine (3), Queensland, Rome Tor Vergata, Royal Holloway College, Université de Savoie, Sheffield (2), Siena, Staffordshire, Stockholm, Strasbourg 1, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2), Warwick (3), University of Western Australia.

Editorial

*    Revue d’Economie Politique (2004-)
*    Advances in Research on Quality of Life (2005-) 
*    Review of Income and Wealth (2010-)
*    International Review of Economics (2011-)
*    Evidence-based HRM (2011-)
*    International Journal of Happiness and Development (2011-)
*    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2018-)
*    Journal of Population Economics (2018-)
*    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2008-2011)
*    Italian Economic Review/ Rivista Italiana Degli Economisti (2011-2014)
*    British Journal of Industrial Relations (2010-2014)
*    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2011-2017)
*    Journal of Happiness Studies (2000-2018)
*    Journal of Health Economics (2016-2022)




Refereeing: Journals. 1300+ Referee's Reports for 252 Journals:

Actualité Economique	Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Advances in Cognitive Psychology	Journal of Bioeconomics
Advances in Life Course Research	Journal of Cleaner Production
African Review of Economics and Finance	Journal of Comparative Economics
Aging and Mental Health	Journal of Consumer Affairs
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	Journal of Development Economics
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	Journal of Development Studies
American Economic Journal: Macro	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization*
American Economic Review*	Journal of Economic Inequality*
American Journal of Agricultural Economics	Journal of Economic Literature
American Journal of Health Economics	Journal of Economic Psychology*
American Journal of Political Science	Journal of Economic Surveys
American Psychologist	Journal of Economics and Statistics
American Sociological Review	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique	Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Applied Economics	Journal of European Social Policy
Applied Economics Letters	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy	Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Applied Economics Quarterly	Journal of Happiness Studies*
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being	Journal of Health Economics*
Applied Research in Quality of Life*	Journal of Human Capital
Australian Economic Papers	Journal of Human Development
BMC Public Health	Journal of Human Resources
British Journal of Industrial Relations*	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
British Journal of Sociology	Journal of International Development
Bulletin of Economic Research*	Journal of Labor Economics
Business and Society Review	Journal of Labor Research
Cambridge Journal of Economics	Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences	Journal of Medical Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics	Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Children and Youth Services Review	Journal of Official Statistics
China Economic Review	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology*
Community, Work & Family	Journal of Political Economy
Contemporary Economic Policy	Journal of Population Economics*
Cross-Cultural Research	Journal of Positive Psychology
Current Psychology	Journal of Public Economics*
Demographic Research	Journal of Public Policy
Demography	Journal of Research in Personality
Developmental Psychology	Journal of Social Policy
Development Southern Africa	Journal of Socio-Economics
Drug and Alcohol Dependence	Journal of Sports Economics
Drustvena istrazivanja	Journal of the European Economic Association
Eastern Economic Journal	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
Econometrica	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
Economia Internazionale	Journal of Urban Economics
Economic and Labour Relations Review	Labour*
Economic Development and Cultural Change	Labour Economics*
Economic Inquiry	Management International
Economic Journal*	Management Science
Economic Modelling	Managerial and Decision Economics
Economic Policy	Mind and Society
Economic Systems	Mondes en Développement
Economic and Industrial Democracy	National Institute Economic Review
Economic and Social Review	Nature Human Behaviour
Economica*	Nature Mental Health
Economics	OECD Journal: Economic Studies
Economics and Human Biology	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Economics and Philosophy	Oxford Economic Papers*
Economics Bulletin	Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Economics Letters*	Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Economics of Education Review	Papers in Regional Science
Economics of Governance	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Economics of Transition	Perspectives on Psychological Science
Economie et Prévision	PLOS ONE
Economie et Statistique	PNAS Nexus
Education Economics	Population
Empirica	Poverty & Public Policy
Empirical Economics	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Employee Relations	Psychological Bulletin
Environment and Planning A	Psychological Science
Epidemiology and Infection	Public Finance Review
European Economic Review*	Quality of Life Research
European Journal of Health Economics	Quarterly Journal of Economics*
European Journal of Industrial Relations	Recherches Economiques de Louvain
European Journal of Operational Research	Regional Science and Urban Economics
European Journal of Political Economy	Regional Studies
European Societies	Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research
European Sociological Review	Research on Aging
Evidence-based HRM	Review of Behavioral Economics
Evolution & Human Behavior	Review of Economic Studies
Experimental Economics	Review of Economics and Statistics*
Feminist Economics	Review of Economics of the Household*
Frontiers in Finance and Economics	Review of Finance
Games and Economic Behavior	Review of Income and Wealth*
Gender, Work and Organization	Review of Industrial Organization
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography	Revue d'Economie Politique
German Economic Review	Revue Economique
Health Economics *	Ricerche Economiche
Health Policy	Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
Health Science Reports	Rivista Italiana degli Economisti
History of the Human Sciences	Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Human Relations*	Schmollers Jahrbuch
Human Resource Management Journal	Science*
Industrial and Labor Relations Review*	Science Advances
Industrial Relations *	Scottish Journal of Political Economy*
Industrial Relations Journal	Small Business Economics
International Economic Review	Social Choice and Welfare
International Journal of Business and Economics	Social Forces
International Journal of Epidemiology	Social Indicators Research*
International Journal of Happiness and Development	Social Psychological and Personality Science
International Journal of Management and Decision Making	Social Science and Medicine*
International Journal of Manpower*	SSM - Population Health
International Journal of Public Opinion Research	Social Science Information
International Journal of Social Welfare	Social Science Journal
International Journal of Well-Being	Social Science Quarterly
International Labour Review	Social Science Research
International Migration Review	Sociological Methods and Research
International Review of Economics	Sociology of Education
International Review of Economics and Finance	Socio-Economic Review
International Review of Finance	Southern Economic Journal
International Small Business Journal	Statistics in Transition new series
International Socal Science Journal	Stress and Health
International Sociology	Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
International Tax and Public Finance	The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy
IZA Journal of Labor Economics	The B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics
IZA Journal of Labor Policy	The Manchester School
IZA Journal of Migration	Theory and Decision
IZA World of Labor	Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Japanese Economic Review	Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
Journal of African Economies	VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Journal of Applied Econometrics	Wellbeing, Space & Society
Journal of Applied Economics	Work and Occupations
Journal of Applied Gerontology	World Bank Economic Review
Journal of Banking and Finance	World Development*
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	World Development Perspectives


* = 10 or more referee's reports


Refereeing: Books (22)


*    Cambridge Elements
*    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
*    Cambridge University Press
*    Columbia University Press
*    Editions Flammarion
*    La Decouverte
*    MIT Press
*    Oxford University Press
*    Princeton University Press
*    Springer
*    Temple University Press
*    World Bank



Refereeing: Grant Applications (77)


*    AAP-Paris-Seine
*    ANR (France)
*    Austrian Science Fund
*    AXA (France)
*    Belgian Fund for Scientific Research – FNRS
*    British Academy
*    Croatian Science Foundation
*    ECOS-Sud (France)
*    ESRC (UK)
*    European Research Council
*    Falk Institute for Economic Research (Israel)
*    FCAR (Canada)
*    FCI (Canada)
*    FWO (Belgium)
*    German Research Foundation (DFG)
*    Health Research Board (Ireland)
*    INCA (France)
*    Israel Science Foundation
*    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
*    Leverhulme Trust (UK)
*    Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
*    MIUR (Italy)
*    Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development
*    Nuffield Foundation (UK)
*    NWO (Holland)
*    Polish National Science Centre
*    Singapore Ministry of Education
*    SSHRC (Canada)
*    Swiss National Science Foundation

How did I get here?

Some Links

Many many interesting things about fairness and well-being research can be found in the following places

• ISQOLS website
• The World Database of Happiness website
• The CEP Well-Being group's website.
• The Oxford Well-Being Research Centre's website.
• Andrew Oswald's website
• Ernst Fehr's website
• Alois Stutzer's website
  
• The New Economics Foundation.

Equally interesting things about football can be found in the following places

• More football results than you ever thought you needed can be found at soccernet.
• Are Leyton Orient the worst team in London? This site will let you know.
• US Palaiseau! Easily the best team in, er, Palaiseau.
  

And we all know that you can never listen to enough music while you're working.

• Who Said Hip-Hop was Dead? Quannum and Solesides refute the case.
• And check out Deep Puddle Dynamics for some serious What The Hell moments.
  
• Who Said Finns Can't Rap? Oh look, here's another one. And what's more....broken beats, sub-bass and grainy video: Antiall have it all. I used to have a link to them, but it has disappeared into the Ether....
• Wobbly Ambient Electronica is cool. Boards of Canada's turntable is playing at the wrong speed.
• Who Said a Triple Lead Guitar Attack was Passé? Run for the hills (of Arkansas), where Black Oak Arkansas will show you what you've been missing (nice washboard too).
• Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki has a pretty good choir. Check out the bass.
• How minimal can you get? Richie Hawtin knows.
• I can't remember the way you used to be: the Charlatans (UK). 
• Doors......lead to other doors. The Associates. 
• This Ain't Really Life; It's Nothing But A Movie. Gil Scott-Heron.
• With a movie camera - The Cinematic Orchestra.
• And more radio than you can throw a stick at: Iceberg Radio.
  
• Any label which signed Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band is OK with me: Ze Records.
• Bass for your Face: Public Enemy.
• Groove Salad: "Listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco". That's what it says on their website.
• Damon and Naomi. Listen to Beautiful Close Double....and weep.
• Finger Licking Good Y'All. Time to remember how good Trouble Funk were.
• I reckon Burial is ice-washed deep-space soul. But then again what the hell do I know?
• This is the best ever old-school song; unfortunately so is this. No, wait a minute: this is surely even better...
  
• I like Fools' Gold as much as the next man or woman, but here's another total gem from the Stone Roses.
• Lemmy gives his opinion on certain journal referees. Actually it's Larry Wallis, ex-Pink Fairies, on vocals.
  
• Ah, preposterous: the magnificent I, Ludicrous.
• And what did Tim Gaine sound like before Stereolab, you ask? Actually like this Indie Wah-Wah classic. I seem to remember that McCarthy came from Barking, where I lived when I wrote my thesis. Or was that the Wolfhounds? Or the Godfathers?
• And all of this is just imagination: Shriekback.
  
• Being a moderately poor guitar player myself, I am partial to wig-outs. Here are two mighty fine ones, both old and new.
• Never liked KJ that much, but this is monstrous.
• Two minutes of horn-driven madness: The Ohio Players back in the days...
• And the Fear: What's that for?
• Alex Harvey helped to make me what I am today. It's his fault.
• Super Collider will melt your speakers: it's official.
• You Ain't Got the Bait to Hook This. Bahamadia.
• Dansez Dansez Yeah: San Fan Thomas.
• Dad on the Dance Floor alert. We are all Wicki Wacky
• Memories of Warwick Folk Club: the wonderful Mick Stuart

Dubious Links between Research and Music Department.

• The 2001 Economica paper includes lyrics from the great Eubie Blake.
• The 2008 International Journal of Manpower paper is named after a Billy Bragg song.
• The 2008 Economic Journal paper includes a line from Gimme a Bullet.
• The 2016 OUP chapter (the Bartolini one) contains a carefully-shoehorned lyric from Wham Rap.
  
• The 2024 World Development article is named after a Marshall Tucker Band song (First Album, first track on side one...).
  
• One of our religion papers was inspired by the monumental Black Oak Arkansas ("Our Religion Is Music")
• Our new work on Adaptation in the East will, I hope, include a line from Billy Bragg's St Swithin's Day.
• The short summary paper in Keio Economic Studies is named after a Rush song (I know, I know).
• The Introduction to the November EJ Features contains a reflection on Chicory Tip.
• I would like to write a paper on the absence of compensating differentials called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". But I probably won't.
  

Identify the Lyrics Department. Know which songs these come from?

• "Here I am, growing up and growing old. Watching my friends swallow cultures whole"
• "Jobs for the boys, and a tip for the wrecking crew. Truth of it is that it's plain you've not got a clue"
• "Your words twist and decay, nothing you say reaches my ears anyway"
  
• "These are Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children"
• "You and I we need each other just the same. You need me to laugh at and I need you to blame"
• "I only played chess once in my life, and I lost"
• "People down there drink home-made beer, things ain't changed for a hundred years"
• "Come on Boys, Dump the Car. Line another Drink up on the Bar"
• "There'll be another Bicentennial before I hear the truth from your mouth"
  

Past Proud Lyrics Department Winners

• "Alabama would be heaven if the Lord was there" ["Willie Jones" by the Charlie Daniels Band, identified by Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa]
  
• "How do you come to be having fun with everyone but me girl?" ["Hypnotise" by Scritti Politti; identified by Aru Bhartiya, PSE]
• "If it doesn't work out, Yo: it just doesn't. If it wasn't meant to be, you know: It just wasn't" ["Paper Thin" by MC Lyte; identified by Alan Piper, University of Flensburg]
• "I couldn't go to work today as Bigfoot stole my car" ["Truth is out of Style" by MC 900 Ft Jesus (with DJ Zero); identifed by Don Webber, Bristol Business School]

Terrible Bands in which I Massacred the Guitar Department.

• Seagull
• The Theydon Boys
  
• Bozo (The Drinking Man's Rock Band)

The first and third of these actually played in public. The first in a Church music competition (we lost), and the third at Libby Morris's birthday party (Libby - wherever you are - you didn't deserve that). The second was the punk period band. Our version of Ever Fallen in Love (RIP Pete Shelley) was unique. We all knew bits of the song, but not the same bits, and not at the same speed. Plus we didn't have a drummer.