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9th March: Conference « Happiness and Economic Growth : Lessons from Developing Countries »

Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries

CEPREMAP, Paris School of Economics
Campus Jourdan, Grande salle
48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris

March 9, 2012


9h: Reception
9h15: Welcome address - Daniel COHEN (Director of CEPREMAP)

9h30-10h20: “Life Satisfaction in China: 1990:2010”
Richard EASTERLIN (University of Southern California) - download the ppt
Discussant: Yann ALGAN (Sciences Po) - download the ppt

10h20-10h40 Coffee break

10h40-11h30: “The Great Happiness Moderation”
Andrew CLARK, Sarah FLECHE and Claudia SENIK (Paris School of Economics) - download the ppt
Discussant: Paul SEABRIGHT (Toulouse School of Economics) - download the ppt

11h30-12h20: “Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty”
Martin RAVALLION (World Bank) - download the ppt
Discussant: Katia ZHURAVSKAYA (Paris School of Economics) - download the ppt

12h20: lunch

14h-14h50: “Subjective well-being and social evaluation in developing countries: a case study of China. Comparing SWB to other measures of well-being”
John KNIGHT (Oxford University) - download the ppt
Discussant: Xiaobo ZHANG (IFPRI) - download the ppt

14h50-15h: Coffee break

15h-15h50: “Income comparisons in China”
Andrew CLARK and Claudia SENIK (Paris School of Economics) - download the ppt
Discussant: Ada FERRER-I-CARBONNELL (CSIC, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) - download the ppt

15h50-16h30: Panel discussion
Stefan LOLLIVIER (INSEE) - download the ppt
Conal SMITH (OCDE) - download the ppt
Martin RAVALLION (World Bank) - download the ppt

16h30: Drinks for all participants and audience