Phone: (07) 3346 3483, Fax: (07) 3365 7299

E-mail: p.frijters@uq.edu.au

Location: Room 609 - Level 6, Colin Clark Building (39), School of Economics, University of Queensland, St Lucia

 

Interests, projects and research activities:

My main interest are in how socio-economic variables affect the human life experience and the 'unanswerable' economic mysteries in life.

 

Projects:

Happiness projects (death, satisfaction, expectations, health satisfaction, job satisfaction, income)

Labour market projects (labour supply, discrimination, search efficiency, entrepreneurs, education)

Development projects (social capital, relational capital, creative destruction, economic development, rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia)

Popular science projects (Cultural Convergence, Pandora’s Box, the Golden Age of Humanity, God’s Phone Number)

 

View my CV, papers and works in progress, research activities (past and future),

China Presentation at the Australian Conference of Economists 2009 (ACE 09) on the occasion of accepting the award of 'Best Australian Young Economist', Background Paper to ACE 2009 China Presentation, and the RealWorldEconomics website.

Link to my RePec profile.

Link to my Club Troppo blog archive.

Link to my Core Economics blog archive.

 

Selected Recent Academic Journal publications

These are articles of particular interest. All academic journal publications are also available.

2011 - 2012: all papers 

Frijters, P., & Barón, J.D., (2012). ‘The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion’, forthcoming Economic Record.

Frijters,P., Foster, J., Johnston, D. (2012), ‘The triumph of hope over disappointment’, forthcoming Journal of Economic Psychology.

Frijters, P., Johnston, D., Shields, M.A. (2011), ‘Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data’, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 113, Issue 1, pages 190-211, March 2011.

Frijters, P., Johnston, D., Shields, M.A. (2012), ‘The Optimality of Tax Transfers: What does Life Satisfaction Data tell us?’, forthcoming Journal of Happiness Studies.

Frijters, P., Meng, X. (2012), ‘Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese Happy?’, forthcoming Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2011), ‘The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard. Model: An Application to Socioeconomic. Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, April 1, 2011, 29(2): 271-281.

Frijters, P, Shields, M.A.,Wheatley Price, S., and J. Williams (2011), ‘Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children's Cotinine Samples’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 174(1), pages 195-212.

Mujcic, R., and Frijters, P. (2013), ‘Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank’, forthcoming Oxford Economic Papers.

 

2008, 2009 and 2010: all papers

Foster, J., Frijters, P. (2010), ‘Students' beliefs about peer effects’, Economic Letters, forthcoming.

Frijters, P., Greenwell, H., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2010),‘How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? Evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock’, forthcoming Canadian Journal of Economics.

Frijters, P., Hatton, T., Martin, R.M., Shields, M.A. (2010), ‘Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937-2005’, forthcoming Journal of Health Economics.

Carroll, N, Frijters, P., and M. A. Shields (2008), ‘Quantifying the Costs of Drought: New Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data’, Journal of Population Economics, 22 (2), April 2009, pp. 445 - 461.

Clark, A., Frijters, P., Shields, M.A. (2008), ‘Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles’, Journal of Economic Literature', 46(1), March 2008, pp. 95-144. also IZA, NCER, and DELTA discussion paper.

Frijters, P., Farrell, L. (2008), ‘Choosing to become a lost cause: the perverse effects of benefit preconditions’, Oxford Economic Papers, 60, pp. 1-19.

Frijters, P., Johnson, D., Shah, M., Shields, M.A. (2009), ‘To Work or Not to Work? Maternal Labor Supply and Child Development’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(3) July 2009, pp. 97–110.

Frijters, P., and Leigh, A. (2009), ‘Materialism on the march: from conspicuous leisure to conspicuous consumption’, Journal of Socio Economics, 37 (5) October 2008, pp. 1937-1945

Frijters, P, and Aydogan Ulker (2008), ‘Robustness in health research: do differences in health measures, techniques, and time frame matter?’, Journal of Health Economics 27, July 2008 pp. 1626-1644. Press Statement.

Sharma, A., Frijters, P. (2009), ‘Groom Price – Female Human capital: some empirical evidence’, Journal of Socio Economics, 38 (2),March 2009, pp. 270 - 279

 

Selected papers for 2007 - 2004:

Anna Cristina D'Addio & Tor Eriksson & Paul Frijters, (2007) ‘An analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction when individuals' baseline satisfaction levels may differ’, Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 39(19), pages 2413-2423.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Whitley-Price,S. (2007), ‘Investigating the quitting decisions of nurses: panel data evidence of the British National Health Service’, Health Economics 16 (1), pp. 57-73.

Frijters, P, and Van der Klaauw, B. (2006), ‘Job search with nonpaticipation’, Economic Journal, 239-277. Tinbergen Institute Discussion paper. IZA working paper. Press statement.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Whitley-Price, S. (2005),‘Job-search of ethnic workers in the UK’, Economic Journal, F359-376. A feature edition with papers from D. Card, C. Dustman et al., and T. Hatton. Press statement.

Ferrer-i-Carbonel, A., Frijters, P. (2004), ‘The effect of methodology on the determinants of happiness’, Economic Journal 114, 641-659. Press Statement.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2004), ‘The value of reunification in Germany; An analysis of changes in life satisfaction?’, Journal of Human Resources 39(3), pp. 649-674.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2004), ‘Money does matter! Evidence from increasing real incomes in East Germany following reunification’, American Economic Review, 94(3), pp. 730-741.