Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (born 17 November 1971 in Sabadell, Spain)[1] is a Spanish economist and professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, tenured scientist at CSIC-IAE, MOVE research fellow, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.[2] She was an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and currently is a member of the London School of Economics-based World Wellbeing Panel.[3][4] She holds two PhDs in economics, one from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and the other from the Tinbergen Institute and the University of Amsterdam.[1][5]
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 17, 1971 Sabadell, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Amsterdam |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economist |
| Sub-discipline | Econometrics |
| Institutions | Barcelona Graduate School of Economics IZA Institute of Labor Economics |
After earning her PhD at the University of Amsterdam, she held several positions there including a VENI fellowship from the Dutch National Science Foundation.[2]
Research and publications
editHer current interests concern individual welfare (using subjective measures of well-being) analysis, health, income, and risk attitudes.[2]
Her research focuses on econometrics, measures of welfare and happiness, environmental economics and behavioral economics. She has published two books about happiness measurement. Her first book named Happiness Quantified is written jointly with Bernard M.S. Praag and was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.[6] Her second book Happiness Economics: A New Road to Measuring and Comparing Happiness (Foundations and Trends(r) in Microeconomics)was published in 2011 jointly with Bernard M.S. Praag. Her work has been widely cited and she counts over 11,000 citations in economics and scientific publications including Nature.[7][8] Her research has been featured in media outlets such as The Economist[9] and she has been interviewed on Catalan national radio,[10] and she has been the subject in the newspaper La Vanguardia.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b "Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). January 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Editorial Board.
- ^ "CEP | Research | Wellbeing | World Wellbeing Panel". cep.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ "Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell". Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. 30 June 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Praag, Bernard van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada (2004). Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0198286546.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-171860-1.
- ^ "Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Tanaka, Saori C.; Yamada, Katsunori; Kitada, Ryo; Tanaka, Satoshi; Sugawara, Sho K.; Ohtake, Fumio; Sadato, Norihiro (18 February 2016). "Overstatement in happiness reporting with ordinal, bounded scale". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 21321. Bibcode:2016NatSR...621321T. doi:10.1038/srep21321. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4758068. PMID 26887524.
- ^ "Keeping up with the Karumes". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Ràdio, Catalunya. "Les entrevistes de 'La tribu': Felicitat i economia". CCMA (in Catalan). Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ "El precio de la felicidad". 16 January 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2022.