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We are looking for two Applied Researchers to join STATEC Research in early 2023, one with a focus on Subjective Well-being and the other focusing on Environmental Economics. Details of the posts are available at the bottom of this page in the Vacancies section. The initial appointment is for two years, with the possibility of extension. We offer an attractive salary and research allowance. The deadline for application is the 31st of December 2022, or the 28th of November to be interviewed during the EEA European Job Market.
Beginning the 6th of October, Francesco Sarracino will give a series of four lectures on sustainability, wellbeing, postgrowth, and neohumanism. The first lecture is entitled “Happier and sustainable. Possibilities for a post-growth society”. Registration is free. The lectures are organised in partnership with Plaidons Responsable by Caritas Luxembourg and House of Startups Luxembourg.
In October, Francesco Sarracino will present “Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data” at the 16th Conference Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe: Quality of Life in Europe at Risk? Effects of the Pandemic and Recent Social Change.
In September, The Times covered an article by Kelsey O’Connor and Richard Easterlin on the long-run correlates of happiness, published in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). You can read The Times article here, and PNAS article here.
Serge Allegrezza, Kelsey O’Connor, Chiara Peroni, and Charles-Henri DiMaria, and gave the opening plenary session at the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth 37th General Conference in August, presenting respectively: “Trust in Official Statistics across Europe: Evidence from Two Waves of Eurobarometer Using Multilevel Models”, “Life Satisfaction and Noncognitive Skills: Effects on the Likelihood of Unemployment”, “Productivity Gains from Job Satisfaction in Europe”, and “From economic productivity to productive well-being: the role of life satisfaction and adjusted net savings.”
Maxime Pettinger presented and discussed “Measurement of Economic Insecurity in the European Union between 2005 and 2020” at the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth 37th General Conference in August.
Chiara Peroni, Francesco Sarracino, and Kelsey O’Connor presented papers at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) Annual Meeting in August, respectively: “Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world”, “Productivity Gains from Job Satisfaction in Europe”, and “European Integration: Bidirectional Happiness and Migration Relationships.”
In August, Francesco Sarracino received the Research Fellow Award in Quality of life, Wellbeing and Happiness Research from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
In July, the Lëtzebuerger Journal did a feature on Francesco Sarracino and the Well-being Agenda. You can read the article here.
The Financial Times covered research conducted by Kelsey O’Connor and others in August. You can read the article entitled “Economists must get more in touch with our feelings” here.
Kelsey O’Connor was invited to present “Effects of Teaching Styles on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” at the Oxford Wellbeing Research and Policy Conference in July.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “Effects of Teaching Styles on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” in the EHERO (Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization) seminar series in July.
In July, Francesco Sarracino presented “Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world” at the XIV International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics.
From June 1st to 4th approximately 90 speakers from around the world came together in Luxembourg to attend our conference “Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions.” The event included: opening remarks from the Minister of the Economy (Franz Fayot); a round table discussion on how policy-makers can integrate the findings from well-being studies (including panelists from Luxembourg, Martijn Burger (Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO)), Nancy Hey (What Works Centre for Wellbeing), and Katherine Scrivens (OECD)); a presentation of the new PIBien-etre Report about quality of life in Luxembourg, by Serge Allegrezza (Director of STATEC); an opening talk from a civil society activist (author and filmmaker, John De Graaf); a workshop on the World Database of Happiness by its creator Ruut Veenhoven; four keynote speeches by Stefano Bartolini, Andrew Clark, Carol Graham, and Andrew Oswald; and a lively and fun social dinner. We are grateful for the support of the National Research Fund (FNR), Caritas Luxembourg, the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), and Global Labor Organization (GLO). For details, see the program here. For recordings of the main events, see STATEC Research’s YouTube page here. See news coverage by Delano and Luxemburger Wort.
Charles-Henri DiMaria, Francesco Sarracino, and Kelsey O’Connor each presented papers at “Well-Being 2022: Knowledge for informed decisions.” Respectively: “From economic productivity to productive well-being”, “Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world”, and “Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data"
In June, Chiara Peroni contributed to the “Roundtable on Wrapping up 3 years of NPBs in the Eurozone: key findings” at the Euro Area Productivity and Competitiveness Conference, organized by France Strategie
In June, Charles-Henri Di Maria, presented “From economic productivity to productive well-being” at the conference 17th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity (EWEPA XVII).
In April, Chiara Peroni presented “Recent research on productivity in Luxembourg” to the Conseil National de la Productivite.
In March, Kelsey O’Connor was appointed Associate Editor of economics for the Journal of Happiness Studies, a leading international journal on subjective well-being or happiness.
Francesco Sarracino was interviewed for an in-depth article on the pursuit of happiness, published by the popular scientific outlet New Scientist in January, available here.
Xi Chen presented “The Effects and Transmission of COVID-19 Shocks: A Global Value Chain perspective” in STATEC’s SEMECO seminar series in January.
In January, Kelsey O’Connor will present “From tweets to well-being: Sentiment analysis reveals how well-being evolved in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic” at the Well-being and Public Economics workshop hosted by the Berlin Network of Research on Well-being.
In November, Chiara Peroni, Charles-Henri DiMaria, and Francesco Sarracino, each gave presentations at the Symposium on Well-being and Productivity organized by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (Canada) and The Productivity Institute (United Kingdom). They presented, respectively: “Productivity gains from job satisfaction”, “From economic productivity to productive well-being”, and “A measure of well-being productivity based on the World Happiness Report.”
Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O’Connor, with Hiroshi Ono, published the opinion piece “Lost decades or success story: well-being in Japan” with the newsmagazine Nikkei Asia in November.
In October, Cesare Riillo presented “Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Cross-country Evidence” at the IECER 2021 Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “From tweets to well-being: Sentiment analysis reveals how well-being evolved in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic” both at the Happiness and Age Conference, organized by the International Center for Economic Analysis, and at the National Association of Business Economics Tech Economics Roundtable, in October. A recording of the latter is available here.
Pietro Santoleri presented “The Causal Effects of R&D Grants: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity” at the DRUID Conference hosted by the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, in October.
In September, Chiara Peroni presented “The effects of COVID-19 on mental well-being in Luxembourg” at the Conseil Superieur de la Statistique, annual meeting.
In September, Vasja Sivec will present “Shadow Gap: A new approach to gap estimation” at the Joint OGWG - ECFIN - JRC Conference: "Assessment of output gaps and potential output in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
In August, Kelsey O’Connor received the Young Scholar Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in recognition of a significant contribution to quality-of-life research.
Francesco Sarracino presented “Do epidemics impose a trade-off between freedom and health? Evidence from Europe during Covid-19” and “From research to decision making: leveraging on quality-of-life studies?” at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (www.isqols.org) annual conference in August.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “The Easterlin Paradox” and “A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter. Evidence from ten countries” at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (www.isqols.org) annual conference in August.
Francesco Sarracino was invited to become a member of the Australian Centre on Quality of Life in July.
In July, Cesare Riillo presented “Too Much or Too Little Standardization? The performance of firms engaged in standardization” and “Luring SMEs into ICT Standardisation” at the 25th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference / SIIT.Kelsey O’Connor was invited to present “Effects of Teaching Styles on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” in the University of Strasbourg’s Economics Seminar in December.
In November, Golnaz Amjadi successfully defended her dissertation, which was also highlighted by the leading Swedish industry magazine IndustriPress, English version available here. Entitled “Essays on energy efficiency, environmental regulation and labor demand in Swedish industry” her dissertation is available here.
Francesco Sarracino was invited to present “Social trust: the first vaccine against COVID-19” at the United Arab Emirates University in November.
Cesare Riillo gave two presentations at the November conference Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv20): “Comparing Web and Telephone Surveys with Registers data: the case of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in Luxembourg” and “PC versus mobile survey: are people’s subjective evaluations comparable?”
Kelsey O'Connor coauthored the article entitled Job policies that offer generous unemployment benefits create more happiness – for everyone with Robson Morgan. It was released in November with The Conversation, a general audience source of academic research news and views.
Francesco Sarracino was invited to present at the University of Johannesburg on “Covid-19: a perspective from happiness economics.” You can attend the virtual seminar on the 15^th of October at 11:00 AM using Zoom here.
Francesco Sarracino was invited by CARITAS to present “COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities for Neo-humanism” in September. View the presentation here.
Francesco Sarracino appears on the cover of the September issues of 4x3, by InfoGreen. See the interview entitled “Nothing is impossible” online here.
Francesco Sarracino and Malgorzata Mikucka received the 2019 Best Annual Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL) Paper Award for the paper Consume More, Work Longer, and Be Unhappy: Possible Social Roots of Economic Crisis?
Chiara Peroni presented “The effects of COVID-19 on mental well being in Luxembourg” at the annual meeting of Conseil Superieur de la Statistique, in September.
Francesco Sarracino presented “Trustful societies are resilient to epidemics. Evidence from Europe during Covid 19” in the University of Groningen’s economics seminar, in September.
Francesco Sarracino gave the keynote speech entitled “COVID19: challenges and opportunities for neo-humanism” at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies virtual conference in August-September. Watch the presentation here.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “Effects of Teaching Styles on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)” at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies virtual conference in August-September.
On the 8th of July, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel referenced the results of a recent STATEC survey and Regards in an address to the Chamber of Deputies, regarding the decline in mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown. Media coverage of the Regards includes: Luxembourg Times (English), RTL (English), Wort (French), Paperjam (French), Yahoo Actualities (French), and Le Quotidien (French).
STATEC Research received competitive funding for two COVID-19 related projects in May. One, led by Francesco Sarracino, will use sentiment analysis and Twitter data for the year of 2020 to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on preferences, attitudes, and well-being in Luxembourg and five other European countries. The second, led by Cesare Riilo, contributes to a multinational survey regarding people’s preferences on the use of a contact tracing app to fight the pandemic using a new online probability-based access panel based on STATEC data. Funding is from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).
Kelsey O’Connor was added to the Advisory Panel of What Works Centre Wellbeing in the United Kingdom in May. The Centre provide accessible wellbeing evidence to improve / refocus decision making among individuals, businesses, and governments.
STATEC Research recently collaborated with LISER and the University of Luxembourg on the first working note on the economic effects of COVID-19 in Luxembourg.
Francesco Sarracino was invited in March to join the World Wellbeing Panel. Comprised of approximately the 40 best-known scholars in subjective well-being in the world, the aim of the Panel is to promote well-being as the ultimate purpose of all major decision makers, particularly government.
The 2020 update to the OECD report Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs, which includes a Luxembourg country report based on new data from 2019, will be launched on the 22nd of April.
The Observatory of Competitiveness (ODC) and National Productivity Council (Conseil National de la Productivité) were recently recommended by the OECD. Recent publications include the Bilan Compétitivité 2019: Focus sur l’entrepreneuriat (parts in English and others in French). The NPC is led by Serge Allegrezza and includes Chiara Peroni as a board member.
Cesare Riillo presented on "Gem Data Quality" and "Entrepreneurship and Growth: A Structural Equation Model and a Composite Index" (virtually) at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Annual Meeting, Miami, USA, on the 2nd of March.
Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Well-Being 2020 conference needed to be postponed. For more information please see the conference website.
Cesare Riillo presented "Entrepreneurship and Growth: A Structural Equation Model and a Composite Index" for the JRC COIN(Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards), Ispra, Italy, on the 10th of January.
Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Well-Being 2020 conference needed to be postponed. For more information please see the conference website.
New research released by Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O’Connor was covered by RTL, theLuxembourger Wort, and Infogreen. The original research and news release from the 20th of January is available here, Economic growth and well-being beyond the Easterlin paradox.
Francesco Sarracino held a lunch debate on “Growth and degrowth: rethinking the role of our economy in creating social welfare” at CARITAS on the 15th of January. The presentation was covered by the Luxembourger Wort, available here
Charles-Henri Di Maria presented “Financial crisis and contagion in a micro FISIM framework” in STATEC’s seminar series, Séminaire Économique, on the 12th of December.
Kelsey O’Connor presented Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession in STATEC’s seminar series, Séminaire Économique, on the 11th of November.
Kelsey O’Connor and Francesco Sarracino will organize sponsored sessions at the Western Economic Association International 95th Annual Conference (26-30 June 2020, Denver Colorado), sponsored by the International Society for Quality of Life Studies.
The Brookings Institution, a United States based think tank, discusses recently published research coauthored by Kelsey O’Connor, as part of a broader research agenda. This discussion appears here, and the original research, here.
The main results of the GEM report 2018/2019 were presented during the press conference for the Bilan Compétitivité 2019 on the 2nd of November 2019 in presence of the Minister for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Lex Delles.
Vasja Sivec presented “Shadow Gap: A new approach to gap estimation” at a workshop co-organized by STATEC and the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria, on 11 November 2019.
Francesco Sarracino presented “The wealth of Luxembourg and the well-being of its inhabitants” at the conference “The Social Structure of Subjective Well-Being”, at the University of Luxembourg, 3-4 October 2019.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union” at the conference “The Social Structure of Subjective Well-Being”, at the University of Luxembourg, 3-4 October 2019.
Francesco Sarracino will present “A Social Cure for Envy“ at the annual meeting of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in Granada, Spain, on 4-7 September 2019.
Kelsey O’Connor will present “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union” and “Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States.” at the annual meeting of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, in Granada, Spain, on 4-7 September 2019.
Kelsey O’Connor presented “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union”at the conference entitled “Integrating migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into European labour markets: enablers and barriers”organized by the SIRIUS project funded by Horizon 2020, in Glasgow, Scotland, on 29-30 August 2019.
Francesco Sarracino presented “PC vs Mobile: does the device affect people's answers in online surveys?” and “Survey measures of social capital: how well do self-reported and observed indicators measure social capital?” at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, in Zagreb, Croatia, 15-19 July 2019.
Francesco Sarracino presented “Assessing the non-financial outcomes of social enterprises in Luxembourg” at the 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Sheffield, Great Britain, on 24-27 June 2019.
Charles-Henri DiMaria presented “Banks’ efficiency, a National Accounts micro-perspective” at the 16th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, London, on 13 June 2019.
Golnaz Amjadi will present “Dynamic Energy Demand and the Rebound Effect: A Two-stage Approach” at the Sixteenth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, in London, U.K., on 10-13 of June 2019.
Chiara Peroni presented “Challenges in socio-economic research for Luxembourg: the role of EVS” at the Comprendre les valeurs au Luxembourg et leurs transformations, organized by the STUDIALUX Consortium, in Belval, Luxembourg, on 7 June 2019.
Francesco Sarracino presented “PC vs. Mobile: does the device affect people's answers in online surveys?” at the 51es Journées de Statistque (French Statistical Society), Nancy, France, on 3 June 2019.
Vasja Sivec presented “Output GAP: confidence bands” at a meeting of the output gap working group of Ecofin's (Economic and Financial Affairs council of the European Commission) Economic Policy Committee, Bucharest, Romania, on 17 May 2019.
STATEC WORKSHOP on mixed-mode surveys: benefits and pitfalls, 16th-17th of May 2019, Chamber of Commerce Luxembourg
Kelsey O’Connor presented “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in Europe”at the 15th CEUS Workshop on European Economics, in Koblenz, Germany, on 16 May 2019
Luca Fumarco presented “Multi-year Contracts and Workers’ Performance - Evidence from the National Hockey League” at the Sport Economics and Sport Management Conference, in Berlin, Germany, on 15-16 May 2019.
Presentations on “Multi-year contracts and workers’ performance - evidence from the National Hockey League” by Luca Fumarco and on “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in Europe” by Kelsey O'Connor at the 11th Workshop on Labour Economics, 12-13th of April 2019 , at the University of Trier, Germany
Luca Fumarco presented “Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents’ Social Network” at the LEER Conference on Education Economics, Leuven, Belgium, on 4-5 April 2019.
Golnaz Amjadi presented “Environment versus Jobs: An Industry-level Analysis of Sweden” at the Ammarnäs Winter Workshop, organized by UMEA University, Center for Environmental and Resource Economics, in Ammarnäs, Sweden, on 2-4 April 2019.
Cesare Riillo presents the paper “The Impact of Standards and Regulation on Innovation in Uncertain Markets” at the Society for Risk analysis conference, Belval, on 26 March 2019.
Francesco Sarracino will be a speaker at the Lunch Debate on “Can happiness help redefine progress?”, organised by Caritas Luxembourg, on 20 March 2019.
Cesare Riillo will present the papers “One Survey Mode Fits All? Survey Mode Effects on Objective and Subjective Questions” and the poster “PC versus mobile survey: are people's life evaluations comparable?” at the General Online Conference, Köln, on 7 March 2019.
Francesco Sarracino will present the paper “A Social Cure for Social Comparisons” at the EU-User conference, Mannheim, on 7 March 2019.
Kelsey O’Connor will present the paper “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in Europe” at the Eastern Economic Association conference, New York, on 2 March 2019.
Kelsey O’Connor presents the paper “The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in Europe” at the SEMILUX workshop, University of Luxembourg, 13/02/2019
Presentation at SOLEP: Statistical resources for economic evaluation (11/06/2018)
Quality of life in Luxembourg: the PIBien-être project (STATEC Research division, 14/11/2017)
Productivity in Luxembourg (Chiara Peroni at Conseil Economique et Social, 1st July 2016)
Long-term relative age effect: Evidence from Italian football (Luca Fumarco)
Establishing Satellite Accounts for the Social Economy in Luxembourg (Workshop 14 October 2015)
Marcin Piekalkiewicz has won the Luxembourg 2015 edition of the science slam

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