Phone: (07) 3138 2947, Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: p.frijters@qut.edu.au
Location: Z855 - Gardens Point Campus
School of Economics and Finance
NEW: China Presentation at the Australian Conference of Economists 2009 (ACE 09) on the occasion of accepting the award of 'Best Australian Young Economist' .
NEW: Background Paper to ACE 2009 China Presentation.
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 and research activities (past and future)
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Selected Recent Academic Journal publications:
These are articles of particular interest. All academic journal publications are also available.
2010: all papers
Frijters, P., Greenwell, H., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2010), ‘How rational were expectations in East Germany after the falling of the wall?’, forthcoming Canadian Journal of Economics, IZA working paper.
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.
Frijters, P., Johnson, D., Shields, M.A. (2010), ‘Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data’, forthcoming Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2010), ‘Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model’, forthcoming Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
2008 - 2009: all papers
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), ‘A survey of the income happiness gradient’, 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.