Dr. Alan Piper

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Dr Alan Piper has over twenty years of experience as an academic economist. Before joining Leeds University Business School in January 2022, he had worked at Staffordshire University, the Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany), Universität-Bonn and, more recently, the Paris School of Economics. Since September 2018 he has been a guest researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin where he remains active. His main research interest centres upon human well-being, particularly within the economics of life satisfaction area. 

Journal articles:

"The role of gender inequality in the overeducation and life satisfaction relationship: an empirical analysis using panel data from Korea" (forthcoming, with Amina Ahmed-Lahsen and Ida-Anna Thiele), Education Economics.

“Happiness and Age – Resolving the Debate” (forthcoming, with David Blanchflower and Carol Graham), National Institute Economic Review.

“Sleep Quality and the evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from five European Countries” (forthcoming, with Samira Jabakhanji, Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta and Claus Voegle), PLOS One.

“Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19” (2022, with Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Carsten Schröder, and Conchita D’Ambrosio), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

“Is pain associated with subsequent job loss? A Panel Study for Germany” (2022, with David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson), Kyklos.

“There is a mid-life low in well-being in Germany” (2022, with David Blanchflower), Economics Letters.

“Optimism, pessimism and life satisfaction: an empirical investigation” (2022), International Review of Economics.

“What does dynamic panel analysis tell us about life satisfaction?” (2022), Review of Income and Wealth, available online.

“Temps dip deeper: Temporary employment and the nadir in human well-being” (2021), The Journal of the Economics of the Ageing, 19, available online.

“Property rights and intellectual property protection, GDP and individual well-being in Latin America” (2019, with Amina Ahmed Lahsen), Latin American Economic Review, 28(12), pp. 1-21.

“Different strokes for different folks: Entrepreneurs' job satisfaction and the intersection of gender and migration background” (2019, with Teita Bijedic), International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 11(3), pp. 227-247.

 “An Investigation into the reported closing of the Nicaraguan gender gap” (2019), Social Indicators Research, 144(3), pp. 1391-1413. 

“Satisfactions comparisons: women with families, full-time and part-time self-employed” (2017, with Ilona Ebbers), International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 9(2), pp. 171-187.

 “Sleep duration and life satisfaction” (2016), International Review of Economics, 63(4), pp. 305-325.

 “Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models: A comment on ‘does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?’” (2016, with Geoff Pugh), Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 10, pp. 1-6.

“Sliding down the U-shape? A dynamic panel investigation of the age-well-being relationship, focusing on young adults” (2015), Social Science & Medicine, 143, pp. 54-61.

“Europe’s capital cities and the happiness penalty: an investigation using the European Social Survey” (2015) Social Indicators Research, 123(1), pp. 103-126.

“Heaven knows I’m miserable now: overeducation and reduced life satisfaction” (2015) Education Economics, 23(6), pp. 677-692.

Book chapters, and non peer reviewed work:

“Well-being over the work life” (2022, with Anthony Lepinteur). In: Zimmermann KF (eds.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer

 “Gender (in-)equality and the life course” (2019, with Gerd Grözinger), Wirtschaftsdienst, 99(4), pp. 272-277.

 “Existenzgründung von Frauen im Care-Bereich – Effekte von Arbeitszeit, Arbeitsform und Einkommen auf Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit“ (2018, with Ilona Ebbers and Kirsten Mikkelsen), in:  Mario Pfannstiel, Patrick Da-Cruz, Christoph Rasche (eds.), Entrepreneurship im Gesundheitswesen, I, pp. 201-220.

 “Fear of the Future” (2016), in: Leo Bormans (ed.), The World Book of Hope: The Source of Happiness, Success and Strength, pp. 311-313.