Andrew Oswald

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

 

 

Andrew Oswald is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His research is on economics, statistics, and quantitative social science.  It includes work on the determinants of human happiness and psychological well-being, the influence of home ownership upon the western nations' labour market, the role of randomized trials in the design of social and economic policy, and the behavioural influence of human diet. 

 

He serves on the board of editors of Science, is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, was a member of the Stiglitz Commission into the measurement of social progress and human well-being, and serves on the main panel of the Leverhulme Trust. 

 

Andrew’s recent publications include articles on the life-cycle happiness of chimpanzees and orang-utans (in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 2012), the influence of happiness upon human productivity in randomized controlled trials (in the Journal of Labor Economics in 2015), the role of wisdom in ageing (in Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes in 2014), and longitudinal evidence for the existence of a midlife nadir in humans (in the Economic Journal in 2015).