Category: Well Being

OpEd published in The Richmond Times-Dispatch

1/2/2016

The Richmond Times-Dispatch published an OpEd that I penned discussing how the state of Virginia fared in the recently released Economic Freedom of the North America rankings.

#economicfreedom #VirginiaPublicPolicy

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EJPE Special Issue on Institutions & Well-Being

5/26/2015

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Along with my colleagues Toke Aidt and Boris Nikolaev, I am co-editing a special issue of the European Journal of Political Economy on Institutions and Well-Being. The journal is now accepting submissions through its website. The call for papers is to the right.

Call for Papers
The relationship between institutions and well-being is a topic of growing interest to academics and policymakers. Much of the attention in the economics literature has been on the role that various types of institutions (e.g., economic, informal, legal, political and social) exert on economic development and growth. However, there is an emerging understanding that societal well-being must be understood in a much broader context and make reference to a number of inter-related socio-economic outcomes besides aggregate income.

The purpose of this special issue is to advance the literature through a collection of papers on under-researched topics that fall under the rubric of institutions and well-being. Topics of particular interest – from a theoretical, experimental, and empirical perspective – include (but are not restricted to) papers on how institutional arrangements shape important quality of life metrics such as:

Economic Development / Growth / Adjusted GDP (Genuine investment)
Educational / Environmental / Health Outcomes
Entrepreneurship / Social Capital
Inequality / Mobility / Poverty
Happiness / Subjective Well-being

Papers for the special issue must be submitted online through the Journal’s webpage and is open to the academic community at large.

A generous grant from the Charles Koch Foundation enables us to offer an honorarium of $1000 per paper accepted for the special issue. Since our goal is to promote a public dialogue on the topic, all papers will be published open access.

Submission deadline is July 1, 2015.:

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OpEd published in The Richmond Times-Dispatch

EJPE Special Issue on Institutions & Well-Being

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