Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Behavioral Science, University College London, 2011-present
Visiting Faculty, INSEAD, 2014
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), 2011-present

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Education:
Ph.D. London School of Economics, 2012
M.P.P. Harvard University, 2007
B.Com. Melbourne University, 2002

Teaching:
Public Policy Economics and Analysis summary
Comparative Political Economy summary

Publications:

[10] "GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment" (with Social Science Genetics Association Consortium)

Science. forthcoming.

Discussed in Science Daily, Chronicle, MIT Tech Review, Health, etc.

 

[9] "Molecular Genetics and Subjective Well-Being" (with Meike Bartels, Dan Benjamin, David Cesarini, Magnus Johannesson, Phil Koellinger, Bob Krueger, Patrik Magnusson, Nancy Pedersen, Niels Rietveld, and Henning Tiemeier)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). forthcoming.

 

[8] "Happiness as a Driver of Risk-Avoiding Behavior" (with Robert Goudie, Sach Mukherjee, Andrew J. Oswald, and Stephen Wu)

Economica. forthcoming.

 

[7] "Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership Role Occupancy" (with Slava Mikhaylov, Christopher Dawes, Nicholas A. Christakis, and James H. Fowler)

Leadership Quarterly. 2013, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 45-60.

Discussed in BBC Newshour, The Independent, Science Daily, etc.

 

[6] "Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects" (with Andrew J. Oswald)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 2012, Vol.109, No.49, pp. 19953-19958.

Discussed in BBC Breakfast news show, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Science Daily, etc.

 

[5] "Genes, Economics, and Happiness" (with Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, and Bruno S. Frey)

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics. 2012, Vol.5, No.4, pp. 193-211.

Discussed in TEDx, The Economist, Psychology Today, etc. 

 

[4] "The Median Voter Data Set: Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies"

Electoral Studies. 2011, Vol. 30, Issue 4, 865-871. data

 

[3] "Functional Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the Serotonin Transporter Gene is Associated with Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from a U.S. Nationally Representative Sample"

Journal of Human Genetics. 2011, 56, 456-459.  

Discussed in TEDx, BBC London, BBC World, The Economist, The Guardian,  Le Monde, New Scientist, etc.

 

[2] "U.S. Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: New Evidence on a New Product" (with Peter Tufano and Nick Maynard)

Economics Letters. 2011, Vol. 111, Issue 2, 116-118.

Discussed in Freakonomics blog

 

[1] "The European Onion? How Differentiated Integration is Reshaping the EU"

Journal of European Integration. 2007, Vol. 29, No. 4, 503-521. 

 

Papers under review:

 

[5] "Endogenous Preferences: The Political Consequences of Economic Institutions"

R&R at Socio-Economic Review

Awarded the Wicksell Prize at the European Public Choice Society annual meeting

 

[4] "Personality, Childhood Experience, and Political Ideology"

R&R at Political Psychology. APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper.

 

[3] "Ideological Change and the Economics of Voting Behavior in the US, 1920-2008"

LSE Political Science and Political Economy Working Paper No. 02/2010.

 

[2] "Credit Card Borrowing and the Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Gene" (with James H. Fowler)

Discussed in Newsweek, Scientific American, WSJ SmartMoney, The Independent, etc.

 

[1] "The Enduring Impact of Childhood Experience on Mental Health: A Longitudinal Co-twin Study with Instrumental Variable Analysis" (with Rachel Berner and Francesca Cornaglia)

 

Work in Progress:.

 

"Taxpayer preferences, compliance, and satisfaction: experimental evidence" (with Cait Lamberton and Michael Norton)

 

"Income inequality and happiness in the US: facts, beliefs, and preferences" (with Michael Norton)

 

"Genome-wide association meta-analyses for happiness, satisfaction with life and overall well-being" (with Social Science Genetics Association Consortium)

 

"The objective benefits of subjective well-being" (with Ed Diener, Louis Tay, and Cody Xuereb)

 

"The macroeconomics of loss aversion" (with Femke De Keulenaer, Paul Dolan, George Kavetsos, and Michael Norton)

 

Other:

 

"The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis" (with Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, and Eric Werker)

Harvard Business School Case 709-024.

 

"Should you manage your expectations?" (with Tali Sharot)

Psychology Today. July 29, 2012.