Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. “Mismatch between measures of pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from a field experiment on self-reports and observed behavior”, forthcoming: Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 2025 (with Blankenberg, A.-K. and Waichman, I.)
  2. “Pro-environmental behavior and life satisfaction: How strong is our evidence?” in: Ecological Economics, 237, 2025, 108684, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108684 [open access] (with Blankenberg, A.-K. and Nickel, J.)
  3. “Entrepreneurial Worries: Self-Employment and Potential Loss of Well-Being”, in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 175, 2024, 102773, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2024.102773 [open access]
  4. “Identity and Well-Being in the Skilled Crafts and Trades”, in: Kyklos, 75(2), 2022, 184-235, https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12289 [open access] (with Blankenberg, A.-K.)
  5. “Enhancing Democracy: Can Civic Engagement Foster Political Participation?”, in: Social Science Quarterly, 102(1), 2021, 47- 68, https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12882 [view online for free]
  6. “Green Behavior, Green Self-Image, and Subjective Well-Being: Separating Affective and Cognitive Relationships”, Ecological Economics 179, 2021, 106854, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106854 (with Welsch, H. and Blankenberg, A.-K.) [view online for free]
  7. “Pro-environmental norms and subjective well-being: panel evidence from the UK”, Social Indicators Research, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02426-4 (with Blankenberg, A.-K. and Welsch, H.) [view online for free]
  8. “(Home-)Schools of Democracy? On the Intergenerational Transmission of Civic Engagement”, Social Indicators Research, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02278-y [view online for free]
  9. “Does it have to be a sacrifice? Different notions of the good life, pro-environmental behavior and their heterogeneous impact on well-being”, Ecological Economics 167, 2020, 106448, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106448 (with Blankenberg, A.-K. and Guardiola, J.)
  10. “Soft paternalism and Subjective Well-Being: How Happiness Research Could Help the Paternalist Improve Individuals’ Well-Being”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 29(2), 2019, 539-561, doi: 10.1007/s00191-019-00604-3 [view online for free]
  11. “Smile or die: Can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive illness conditions?”, Economics and Human Biology 31, 2018, 209-227, doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2018.08.004 (with Bünstorf, G.)
  12. “Green Lifestyles and Subjective Well-Being: More about Self-Image than Actual Behavior?”, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization 137C, 2017, 304-323, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.03.009 (with Blankenberg, A.-K.)
  13. “…Do it with Joy! – Subjective Well-Being Outcomes of working in Non-Profit Organizations”, Journal of Economic Psychology 54, 2016, 64-84, doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2016.03.003
  14. “Environmental Concerns and Subjective Well-Being: Antecedents and Outcomes of Environmental Activism in Germany”, Ecological Economics 124, 2016, 1-16, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.01.009 (with Blankenberg, A.-K.)
  15. “Revisiting Cheerful Jane and Miserable John: The Impact of Income, Good Health, Social Contacts and Education declines with increasing Subjective Well-Being”, Applied Economics Letters 23(8), 2016, 544-553, doi: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1085635
  16. “How satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain Wiew”, Journal of Happiness Studies 17(4), 2016, 1409-1433, doi: 10.1007/s10902-015-9650-8 (with Coad, A.) [free access]
  17. “Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being: A Quantile Approach”, Economica 82(328), 2015, 865-891 doi: 10.1111/ecca.12150 (with Coad, A.)
  18. “Volunteering and Life Satisfaction: A closer Look at the Hypothesis that Volunteering more strongly benefits the Unhappy”, Applied Economics Letters 22(11), 2015, 874-885 doi: 10.1080/13504851.2014.985364
  19. “Autonomy-Enhancing Paternalism”, Kyklos 68(1), 2015, 3-27, doi: 10.1111/kykl.12071 (with Lades, L.)
  20. “Unemployment impacts differently on the Extremes of the Distribution of a Comprehensive Well-Being Measure”, Applied Economics Letters 22(8), 2015, 619-627, doi: 10.1080/13504851.2014.962219 (with Coad, A.)
  21. “Causal Linkages between Work and Life Satisfaction and their Determinants in a Structural VAR Approach”, Economics Letters 124(2), 2014, 263-268, doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.05.021 (with Coad, A.)
  22. “Reconciling Normative and Behavioral Economics: Applying the ‘Naturalistic Approach’ to the Adaptation Problem”, Journal of Economics and Statistics, 234(2+3), 2014, 350-365 (with Schubert, C.)
  23. “Subjective Well-being Capabilities: Bridging the Gap between the Capability Approach and Subjective Well-Being Research”, Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(5), 2014, 1197-1217, doi: 10.1007/s10902-013-9471-6
  24. “Should Evolutionary Economists embrace Libertarian Paternalism?”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24(3), 2013, 515-539, doi: 10.1007/s00191-013-0323-7
  25. “‘I’m afraid I have bad news for you…’ Estimating the impact of different health impairments on subjective well-being”, Social Science & Medicine, 87, 2013, 155-167, doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.25 (with Coad, A.)
  26. “Disentangling Motivational and Experiential Aspects of ‘Utility’ – A Neuroeconomics Perspective”, Journal of Economic Psychology 36(1), 2013, 27-40, doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2013.02.011 (with Witt, U.)
  27. “The Structure of Subjective Well-Being: A Vectorautoregressive Approach”, Metroeconomica 64(2), 2013, 361-400, doi: 10.1111/meca.12011 (with Ward, F.)
  28. “Volunteering, Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy”, Journal of Economic Psychology 34(1), 2013, 97-119, doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.11.008 (with Freytag, A.)
  29. “Innovativeness and Subjective Well-being”, Social Indicators Research 111(2), 2013, 561-578, doi: 10.1007/s11205-012-0020-1
  30. “Life Satisfaction and Self-employment: A Matching Approach”, Small Business Economics 40(4), 2013, 1009-1033, doi:10.1007/s11187-011-9413-9 (with Coad, A.)
  31. “A Critical Note on the Role of the Capability Approach for Sustainability Economics”, Journal of Socio-Economics 41(5), 2012, 721-725, doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2012.07.007(with Witt, U.)
  32. “The Neglected Dimension of Well-Being: Analyzing the Development of “Conversion Effciency” in Great Britain”, Journal of Socio-Economics 41(1), 2012, 37-47, doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.10.002 (with Broekel, T.)
  33. “Happiness No Matter the Cost? An Examination on How Efficiently Individuals Reach Their Happiness Levels”, Journal of Happiness Studies 13(4), 2012, 621-645, doi:10.1007/s10902-011-9283-5 (with Broekel, T.)
  34. “Applying a Robust Non-parametric Efficiency Analysis to Measure Conversion Efficiency in Great Britain”, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 12(2), 2011, 257-281, doi:10.1080/19452829.2011.571088 (with Broekel, T.)
  35. “From Average Joe’s Happiness to Miserable Jane and Cheerful John: Using Quantile Regressions to Analyze the full Subjective Well-Being Distribution”, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization 79(3), 2011, 275–290, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.02.005 (with Coad, A.)
  36. “Disentangling the Circularity in Sen’s Capability Approach – An Analysis of the Co-Evolution of Functioning Achievement and Resources”, Social Indicators Research 103(3), 2011, 327–355, doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9714-4 (with Coad, A.)
  37. “An Examination of the Dynamics of Well-Being and Life Events using Vector Autoregressions”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 76(2), 2010, 352-371, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.06.006 (with Coad, A.)
  38. “The Regional Dimension of Knowledge Transfers – A Behavioral Approach”, Industry & Innovation 14(2), 2007, 151-175, doi:10.1080/13662710701252500 (with Broekel, T.)

Books and Book Chapters, etc.

  1. “Towards the next fifty years of social indicators research: Some guidance for authors” (Editorial), Social Indicators Research, 2024 (with Bartram, D., Alaimo, L. S., Avery, E., Bardo, A., Bella, E. D., Botha, F., Fachelli, S., Gatto, A., Lu, J., Okulicz-Kozaryn, A., Sanchez, A., and Tani, M.)
  2. “Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being”, in: Zimmermann, K. F. (ed., 2021), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Dordrecht: Springer (with Blankenberg, A.-K.), GLO Discussion paper version of accepted draft
  3. “Zum beruflichen Selbstbild und zur Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit im Handwerk in Deutschland“, in: Göttinger Beiträge zur Handwerksforschung (Heft 42), 2020, Göttingen (mit Blankenberg, A.-K.)
  4. “Homo Economicus and Happiness: Towards More Sustainable Development”, forthcoming in: Rojas, M. (ed., 2019), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, Dordrecht: Springer
  5. “The Way to Wellbeing”, CRSE Report on self-employment and wellbeing, 2018
  6. “As Innovations Drive Economic Growth, Do They also Raise Well-Being?”, in: Witt, U. and Chai, A. (eds., 2019), Understanding Economic Change – Contributions to an Evolutionary Paradigm in Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Witt, U.)
  7. “A constitutional paradigm is not enough – Would sovereign citizens really agree to manipulative nudges? – A reply to Christian Schubert”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 24(5), 2014, 1115-1120, doi: 10.1007/s00191-014-0377-1
  8. “Happiness and productivity”, in: Altman, M. (ed.), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics, Praeger, Santa Barbara, in press
  9. “Paternalism”, in: Altman, M. (ed.), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics, Praeger, Santa Barbara, in press
  10. “Errors and biases”, in: Altman, M. (ed.), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics, Praeger, Santa Barbara, in press
  11. “Book Review: Geld macht doch gluecklich (Weimann/Knabe/Schoeb)”, Journal of Economics and Statistics 233(4), 2013, 556-559
  12. “Capability, Functioning and Resources”, in: Michalos, A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer, Dordrecht, 2014, 524-529 (with Coad, A.)
  13. “Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare”, Routledge, London, 2010 (Outline available here; Order here: Routledge, Amazon.de)
  14. “Institutions as Determinants of Preference Change: A One Way Relation?”, in: Hanappi, H. and Elsner, W. (eds.), Advances in Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Evolutionary Mechanisms, Non-Knowledge and Strategy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 97-120 (with Niederle, U.-M.)
  15. “Zwischen Metaphysik und Relativismus – Zur Wahrheitssuche von Hilary Putnam im Kontext der Klassischen Wahrheitstheorien”, LIT-Verlag, Münster, 2004