Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell explained

Birth Date:17 November 1971
Birth Place:Sabadell, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Education:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Amsterdam
Discipline:Economist
Sub Discipline:Econometrics
Workplaces:Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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 Well-Being 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]

After earning her PhD at the University of Amsterdam, she held several positions there including a VENI fellowship from the Dutch National Science Foundation.

Research and publications

Her current interests concern individual welfare (using subjective measures of well-being) analysis, health, income, and risk attitudes.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell: Curriculum Vitae . 5 April 2020 . January 2019.
  2. Web site: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. www.iza.org. 2020-03-26.
  3. Book: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Editorial Board.
  4. Web site: CEP Research Wellbeing World Wellbeing Panel. cep.lse.ac.uk. 2020-03-26.
  5. Web site: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell. 2015-06-30. Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. en. 2020-03-26.
  6. Book: Praag. Bernard van. Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach. Ferrer-i-Carbonell. Ada. 2004. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-171860-1. en-US. 10.1093/0198286546.001.0001.
  7. Web site: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com. 2020-03-26.
  8. Tanaka. Saori C.. Yamada. Katsunori. Kitada. Ryo. Tanaka. Satoshi. Sugawara. Sho K.. Ohtake. Fumio. Sadato. Norihiro. 2016-02-18. Overstatement in happiness reporting with ordinal, bounded scale. Scientific Reports. en. 6. 1. 21321. 10.1038/srep21321. 26887524. 4758068. 2016NatSR...621321T. 2045-2322. free.
  9. News: Keeping up with the Karumes. The Economist. 2020-03-26. 0013-0613.
  10. Web site: Les entrevistes de 'La tribu': Felicitat i economia. RĂ dio. Catalunya. CCMA. ca. 2020-03-26.
  11. Web site: El precio de la felicidad. 16 January 2016. 2022-02-09.