Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (born 14 March 1979) is a Belgian economist and professor at the University of Oxford where he directs the Wellbeing Research Centre. De Neve is also the KSI Fellow and Vice-Principal of Harris Manchester College. He is best known for his research on the economics of wellbeing which has led to new insights into the relationship between wellbeing and income, productivity, economic growth, and inequality. His research was selected among "The Management Ideas that Mattered Most" by Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the Ruut Veenhoven Award for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness.

De Neve is an associate editor of the World Happiness Report.

• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Christian Krekel, and George Ward (2019), “Employee wellbeing, productivity, and firm performance,” CEP Discussion Paper, No 1650.
• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Christian Krekel, and George Ward (2019), “What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data,” In: Rojas M. (eds), The Economics of Happiness, Springer.
• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, George Kavetsos, Michael Norton, and Bert Van Landeghem, (2018), “The asymmetric experience of positive and negative economic growth: global evidence using subjective well-being data,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 100 (2), 362-375.
• Powdthavee, Nick, Richard Burkhauser and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (2017), “Top incomes and human well-being: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, 246-257.
• Charpentier, Caroline, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Xinyi Li, Jonathan Roiser, and Tali Sharot (2016), “Models of affective decision-making: How do feelings predict choice?” Psychological Science, 27 (6), 763-775.
• Okbay, Aysu, Bart Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Social Science Genetics Association Consortium (2016), "Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses," Nature Genetics, 48, 624-633.
• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Robert Goudie, Sach Mukherjee, Andrew J. Oswald, and Stephen Wu (2014), "Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behaviour: Theory and an empirical study of seatbelt wearing and automobile accidents," Economica, 81 (324), 674-697.
• Bartels, Meike, Dan Benjamin, David Cesarini, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Magnus Johannesson, Phil Koellinger, Bob Krueger, Patrik Magnusson, Nancy Pedersen, Niels Rietveld, and Henning Tiemeier (2013), "Molecular genetics and subjective well-being," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (24), 9692-9697.
• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Ed Diener, Louis Tay, and Cody Xuereb (2013), "The objective benefits of subjective well-being," In: J. Helliwell, R. Layard, and J. Sachs (eds), World Happiness Report.
• De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel and Andrew Oswald (2013), "Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (49), 19953-19958.