Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Assistant Professor in Political Economy and Behavioural Science       
School of Public Policy
University College London
Office 2.02
29/30 Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9QU
phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4949
email: j.deneve@ucl.ac.uk

Research Associate
Centre for Economic Performance
London School of Economics
Office R452
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6543
email: j.c.de-neve@lse.ac.uk

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Teaching:

Public Policy Economics and Analysis description
Comparative Political Economy
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Publications:

(1) "The Median Voter Data Set: Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies" Electoral Studies. 2011, Vol. 30, Issue 4, 865-871. download data

(2) "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. download / request  Presented at TEDx, BBC London, BBC World. Discussed in The Economist, The Guardian, Le Figaro (front page) , Le Monde (front page), New Scientist, Medical News Today, etc.

(3) "U.S. Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: New Evidence on a New Product" Economics Letters. 2011, Vol. 111, Issue 2, 116-118 (with Peter Tufano and Nick Maynard) download Discussed in Freakonomics blog

(4) "The European Onion? How Differentiated Integration is Reshaping the EU" Journal of European Integration. 2007, Vol. 29, No. 4, 503-521. download Required reading on Harvard College, Sciences Po Paris, and other syllabi for European Politics courses 

Papers under review:

(5) "The MAOA Gene Predicts Credit Card Debt" (with James H. Fowler) R&R (2nd round) at the Economic Journal  download  Discussed in Newsweek, Scientific American, WSJ SmartMoney, The Independent, etc.

(6) "Ideological Change and the Economics of Voting Behavior in the US, 1920-2008." LSE Political Science and Political Economy Working Paper No. 02/2010. R&R at the European Journal of Political Research download

(7) "Personality, Childhood Experience, and Political Ideology" APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. R&R at Political Psychology download

(8) "Genes, Economics, and Happiness" (with James H. Fowler, Bruno S. Frey, and Nicholas A. Christakis) Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (University of Zurich) Working Paper No. 475. download Discussed in PsychologyToday, Mental Health News, TheDailyBeast, etc.  Presented at TEDx

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

(10) "Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership" (with Slava MikhaylovChristopher Dawes, James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis) download

(11) "Endogenous Preferences: The Political Consequences of Economic Institutions." LSE Political Science and Political Economy Working Paper No. 04/2009.  download  Awarded the Wicksell Prize  at the European Public Choice Society annual meeting

(12) "Sexual Orientation Does Not Spread in Adolescent Social Networks" (with Tiffany Brakefield, Sara Mednick, Helen Wilson, James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis)

Work in Progress:

"Happiness as a Determinant of Income" (with Andrew J. Oswald)

"Income and Personality" (with Aldo Rustichini)

"Optimism" (with Tali Sharot)

"Decision-Making Style in Adolescence Predicts Financial Well-Being in Adulthood" (with Christopher Olivola)

Other:

"The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis" (with Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, and Eric Werker) Harvard Business School Case 709-024. download