Economics for everybody : Survey on the well-being of the French by Mathieu Perona and Claudia Senik

Mathieu Perona is executive director of the CEPREMAP Well-being Observatory. A former student of the École normale supérieure – PSL, he completed the Master Analysis and Policy in Economics at PSE, then did a thesis on cultural industries, under the supervision of Bernard Caillaud. Previously, he was in charge of the Méthodes de Pilotage team in charge of stress-testing and risk management models (including ICAAP and integration between stress-tests and IFRS-9 models) at the the Risk Department of Société Générale.

Claudia Senik is PSE Chaired and professor at Sorbonne University. She is director of the CEPREMAP Well-being Observatory. Her work focuses on the economics of subjective well-being, and in particular on the link between income, growth, inequality and happiness. She is also interested in the sources of well-being at work and in companies. Finally, she studies the behavior of women in school and on the labor market.