Journal Articles & Books
- Slater, G. and Sarracino, F. (2026). The costs of social and environmental degradation in affluent economies. Ecological Economics, 250, 109136.
- Sarracino, F. and Slater, G. (2026). Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren Reloaded: How to Promote Sustainable Well-Being for all. Applied Research in Quality Life.
- Burger, M., Greyling, T., Rossouw, S., Sarracino, F. and Wu, F. (2026). Social media and wellbeing in the Middle East & North Africa. In: Helliwell, J.F., et al. (Eds) World Happiness Report 2026. Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford.
- Burger, M., Courchesne, S., Greyling, T., O'Connor K.J., Rossouw S., Sarracino F., Veenhoven R. (2026). Using Subjective Well-being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress, Applied Research in Quality of Life.
- Purcell, W. M., Schmidt, A., Sitati, E., Shekhar, H., Dodman, D., Sarracino, F., Anderson, J., De Wijn, M. and Moreno, E. (2026). Adopting a Quality-of-Life Approach to Urban Development: Proposing a New Framework Based on Structural, Fairness, and Perception Lenses, Sustainability, 18(4), 2102.
- O’Connor, K.J., Peroni, C., Sarracino F., Slater G., and Wu, F. (2025). Supporting others: How prosocial behaviour reduces deaths of despair . In: Aknin, LB. et al. (Eds) World Happiness Report 2025, pp. 159–192.
- Wu, F. and Nugent, J.B. (2026). Mitigating Life Challenges to Subjective Well-Being Through Civic Engagement: Insights from a Global Perspective. Social Indicators Research, 181, 52.
- Burger, M., Courchesne, S., Kostarakos, I., Peroni, C., Sarracino, F., and Stavropoulos, S. (2025). Subjective well-being and regional productivity in the European Union. The Annals of Regional Science 74, 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-025-01415-0
- DiMaria, C-H. (2026). Assessing Ill-Being and Economic Stress: Negative Inputs and Civil Society in Europe. Global Policy.
- Luxembourger, M. and Pettinger, M. (2026). Democratizing sustainability assessment: Leveraging generative AI for assessing corporate sustainability. In: Walker, T. and Gramlich, D. (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Finance. Palgrave Studies in Emerging Risk Management and Sustainable Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Amjadi, G. and DiMaria, C-H. (2025). Frontier analysis of eco-efficiency gaps: Evidence from European countries, Energy Efficiency 18, 109 (2025).
- O'Connor, K., Riillo A.F., and Slater, G. (2025). Employee dissatisfaction and intentions to quit: New evidence and policy recommendations, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 25(3), pp.793-805.
- Tyllianakis, E., Rigas, N., and Kounetas, K. (2025). The impact of announcing a payment assistance program on UK household water consumption: A regression discontinuity analysis, Utilities Policy, 96.
- O'Connor, K. (2025). Obituary Richard Easterlin (1926-2024), Journal of Happiness Studies, 26(103).
- Sarracino, F. and O'Connor, K. J. (2025). Governments should prioritize well-being over economic growth, Nature Human Behaviour.
- Amjadi, G., Bostian, M., Lindström, H., Lundgren, T. and Vesterberg, M. (2025). The Effect of Environmental Protection Expenditures on Industrial Employment in Sweden. Environmental and Resource Economics, 88, pp. 1071-1110.
- O'Connor, K.J. and Bartolini S. (2025). Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Kyklos, 78, pp. 749-774.
- Riillo, C.A.F. (2025). ISO 14001 and innovation: Environmental management system and signal. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 215.
- Easterlin, R.A. and O'Connor, K.J. (2025). Happiness Revolution in Europe. Cambridge University Press.
- Sarracino, F. and Slater, G. (2025). The Trust Paradox. In: Akçomak, İ. S. and Peiró-Palomino, J. (Eds) A Research Agenda for Social Capital in Economic Development. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Bartolini, S. and Sarracino, F. (2024). Happiness and Ecology. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (Eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.
- Slater, G. (2024). The effects of social capital deprivation for wellbeing: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic. Economics and Human Biology, 54, 101395.
- Chen, X. (2024). Firms' heterogeneity and intraindustry reallocation: Beyond dichotomous partitioning. International Journal of Economic Theory, 21(1), pp.64-102.
- Stansel, D. and Wu, F. (2024). Economic freedom, the minimum wage, and food insecurity. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46(3), pp. 1127–1150.
- Sarracino, F., Greyling, T., O'Connor, K.J., Peroni, C., Rossouw, S. (2024). Trust predicts compliance to Covid-19 containment policies: evidence from ten countries using big data. Economics and Human Biology, 54.
- Ma, M., Wang, S. and Wu, F. (2024). Lockdown, Infection, and Expressed Happiness in China. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25, 40.
- Sivec, V. and Volk, M. (2023). Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Capital Buffer Release (Pdf). International Journal of Central Banking, 19(2), pp. 139-174.
- O'Connor, K.J. (2023). Measuring societal progress. In: Fernandez-Urbano, R. and Brockmann, H. (Eds) Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Sarracino, F. and Slater, G. (2023). Social capital and Subjective Well-Being. In: Fernandez-Urbano, R. and Brockmann, H. (Eds) Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Peroni, C. and Sarracino, F. (2023). Productivity and Subjective Well-Being. In: Fernandez-Urbano, R. and Brockmann, H. (Eds) Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Sarracino, F. (2023). Post-growth happiness (Pdf). In: Bormans, L. (Eds) The New World Book of Happiness, Lannoo.
- Bartolini, S., Piekalkiewicz, M., Sarracino, F. and Slater, G. (2023). The moderation effect of social capital in the relationship between own income, social comparisons and subjective well-being: Evidence from four international datasets. PlosONE, 18(12).
- Fumarco, L., Gaddis, S.M., Sarracino, F. and Snoddy, I. (2024). sendemails: an automated email package with multiple applications. The STATA Journal, 24 (1), pp. 138-160.
- Lei, L., Xia, Y., and Wu, F. (2023). Child Gender and Subjective Well-Being of Older Parents in China. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24, pp. 2473–2497.
- O’Connor, K. J. (2023). Easterlin paradox. In: Haddad, B. and Solomon, B.D. (Eds) Dictionary of Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Easterlin, R.A. and O'Connor, K.J., (2023). Three years of COVID-19 and Happiness in Europe: A Macro View. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 120 (19), e2300717120.
- Riillo, C. A. F. and Jakobs K.(2024). Luring European SMEs into ICT Standardization: Problems, Issues, and a Potential Way Forward. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, pp. 4261-4272.
- Sarracino, F., Greyling, T., O'Connor, K.J., Peroni, C., and Rossouw, S. (2023). A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter. Evidence from ten countries. PLoS ONE, 18(2): e0275028.
- Riillo, C. A. F. and Jakobs K. (2023). Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48, pp. 2106–2131.
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