News & Events

Events

• In July 2025, we will be hosting theInternational Society for Quality Of Life Studies (ISQOLS) conference.

STATEC Research in the News

• Paperjam (French) discussed our team’s planned contribution to World Happiness Report 2025, focusing on deaths of despair and pro-social behavior around the world.
• The Luxembourg Times and chronicle.lu reported the release of the GEM Report 2023-2024 in May 2024.
• L'essentiel (French), Luxemburger Wort (German), and Paperjam (French) featured our study, “Dissatisfied employees are three times more likely to quit: Evidence from the Luxembourg Global Entrepreneurship Monitor”.

Recent Grants, Awards, & Recognition

• In June 2024, “Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world,” authored by Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O'Connor, and published in the Applied Research in Quality of Life Studies, received the 2023 Best Annual ARQOL Paper Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.
• Giulia Slater was awarded the 2024 Best Dissertation Award for her doctoral thesis, "Essays on Social Capital and Wellbeing" from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS). In addition, she received the ISQOLS 2024 Post-Doc Research Fellowship, a grant intended to support one postdoctoral candidate conducting research in quality-of-life, happiness, and/or wellbeing studies.
  

Presentations

• In February 2025, Chiara Peroni presented "Are happy people succesful entrepreneurs?" as part of the School of Economics seminar series organised by the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.
• In February 2025, Cesare Riillo presented "Entrepreneurship and income inequality: Evidence from cross-country pseudo panel data" at the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference in Luxembourg.
• Fengyu Wu, Giulia Slater, and Kelsey O’Connor presented the papers "Mitigating life challenges to subjective well-being through civic engagement: Insights from a global perspective", "Estimating defensive consumption: The cost of social and environmental disruption", and "Does well-being governance enhance well-being?" at the BeWell Meeting 2025 organised by the BeWell Network and Freie Universität in Germany, in February.
• In February, Kelsey O’Connor presented "The happiness revolution in Europe" as part of the Measuring Progress Seminar Series organised by STATEC Research in Luxembourg.
• Xi Chen was invited to present "Intangible capital and labour productivity growth in Luxembourg" at the Economic Policy Committee organised by the European Commission in January 2025 in Brussels.
• In January, Giulia Slater presented "The trust paradox" at the Civil economy: An old-new paradigm conference, organised by LUMSA University in Rome.