演講者簡介 : Professor Srisuma received his Ph.D. in Economics from London School of Economics in 2010. He is currently a Reader in Econometrics at University of Surrey. His research fields are Econometrics, and Empirical Industrial Organization.
演講摘要 : Empirical studies in economics of happiness have come under recent criticisms that question their validity. The point of contention can be traced to the fact that happiness data are ordinal but many existing empirical analyses have been ignoring some of the fundamental properties of ordinal variables. In particular, recent studies have shown most well-known empirical facts in the well-being literature in economics can be dramatically over-turned. While it is true that happiness results may be fragile due to methodological mis-uses, we show that many of the conventional wisdoms from the happiness literature are in fact empirically robust.
