While most Americans are happy with their freedom, how do people outside the United States feel about theirs? on.gallup.com/2KtdP6l #globalanalytics

I’ve started this tweet several times. One voice says it’s not people’s business and over sharing. Another voice wonders if never talking out loud about these sorts of things robs people from knowing and being known. So I’ll try again. I’ve decided to change my relation with econ

Any labor econs who want to use the US Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) should use the R package "tidyqwi" to pull data from their API. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… If you find a bug or a way to break it, I'll buy you a beer! #econtwitter Mona Ahmadiani Michael DeWitt @WFEudaimonia

Check out our new paper on environmental amenities and quality of life across the United States! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZErD3Hb~0IY…

Hey #EconTwitter (and especially job mkt candidates) I found some great quotes from the Stoics on how to deal with stress during presentations - especially dealing with comments from obnoxious/rude senior faculty

New report finds that U.S. EPA’s proposed changes to the Federal Mercury & Air Toxics Standards (MATS), which could result in more #MercuryPollution from power plants, is based on incomplete & outdated analysis. rff.org/publications/r… #EconTwitter 1/12

Book Giveaway! Happy to send a signed copy to two randomly chosen people who RT this message. I will cover shipping too. Please share this widely! And Happy Holidays! Oxford Philosophy #ethics #character

New research shows an 8-week happiness course can raise your life satisfaction by more than getting a long-term partner or finding employment. Paper by Christian Krekel Jan-Emmanuel De Neve Dr Daisy Fancourt and Richard Layard #wellbeing #happiness ow.ly/ChyG50y0BdD

Randomised controlled trial finds 8-week Exploring What Matters course from Action for Happiness raises participants' life satisfaction score from average 6.4 on a 0-10 scale to 7.4 ow.ly/CezJ50y4fVO

Why #wellbeing matters to your staff and FIVE ways you can improve it. Latest on Oxford Answers from Jan-Emmanuel De Neve - Director of Wellbeing Research Centre oxsbs.link/2IGhhLw

While you’re sitting inside quarantined, why not read my new paper (with Matthew Ashenfarb and Pat Lee) on #NationalMonuments in Science Advances: advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/e…

The #WHR2020 is out! #InternationalDayofHappiness worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/social…

Coronavirus lays bare the trauma of losing your job by our Co-editor .Jan-Emmanuel De Neve theconversation.com/coronavirus-la… via The Conversation

All new and upcoming NBER Working Papers relating to the coronavirus are to be available free of charge, including three new papers released this week: nber.org/papers/w26866, nber.org/papers/w26867, and nber.org/papers/w26882

Help us understand how citizens prepare and cope with the spreading coronavirus. The World Happiness Report Editors urge you to take the global COVID-19 survey, available in 69 languages: covid19-survey.org #covid19study #covid19study

Hey fellow profs of #AcademicTwitter and #EconTwitter: Please stop scrolling and write to your chair/dean/prez/whoever is your boss and ask what *you* and *they* can do to counter this madness! No “thoughts and prayers”!! Let’s get on it.

Trying to stay calm, but I'm 7 days away from not being able to work in the US. I'm a tenured professor at a major university and the US government is pushing me over the brink. Been waiting for 3 mo (instead of 2d) for the US govt to *print* my already approved work permit.

Which countries are ahead when it comes to integrating #wellbeing into policy? Here is a nice word cloud based on a poll from this #BeyondGDP I'm watching - New Zealand are storming it.

Please check out our new paper in JOHS: We identify and calculate the relative contribution of social, institutional, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to explaining LS above and beyond individuals' characteristics: rdcu.be/cE8g7

Forthcoming in the AJAE: "SNAP Enrollment Cycles: New Insights from Heterogeneous Panel Models with Cross-Sectional Dependence," by Pourya Valizadeh, Bart Fischer, and Henry Bryant