Eugenio Proto
July 2014
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK
Telephone: +44 (0)24 76523484
Email: [email protected]
Web Page: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/eproto
Twitter: @eugenio.proto
Affiliations
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Research Fellow
CAGE, Research Fellows
Education
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium, ECARES, PhD. in Economics, 2004
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium, Master in Economics 1995-1997
University of Turin,
Italy, Master in Economics 1994-1995
Università Commerciale L. Bocconi,
Milan, Italy, Bachelor in Economics 1989-1993
Fields of Specialization
Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Individual Characteristics and Economic
Decisions.
Appointments
Associate Professor in Economics at University of Warwick, from September 2008 to date
Lecturer in Economics at University of Warwick, from September 2003 to September 2008
Lecturer in Economics at University of Bristol, from September 2002 to September 2003
Assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, September
1997- September 2003
Research Related Activities
Exchange and Visiting programs
IZA-Bonn October 2011
University of Minnesota September-December 2010
BOFIT, Bank of Finland, July 2004
University of Stockholm, March 2004
ENTER, University College of London, UK, spring and summer 2001
Research Grants
Participate to the refund of the CAGE research center (£ 3.5 Million)
ESRC Grant R.ECAA.3037 Happiness Economics and Neuronomics
CAGE Research Grant
University of Warwick, Research RDF grant RD0616
University of Turin, Grant for Studying Abroad
Master Coripe Full, Research Grant
Referee Activity
Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of
Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of European Economic
Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Social Choice and Welfare,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of African Economics, Economic
Modelling, Journal of Economic Surveys, Economica, European Journal of Political
Economy, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice. Royal Economic Society
Conference, years 2006-2009
Conferences and Meetings
World Bank Workshop: Mind and Culture: The Behavioral and Social Foundations of
Economic Development – From Research Framework to
Practice, Berlin December 2013
OECD Workshop: How can Subjective Well-being Indices Inform Labor Policy? Paris
2013
IZA Workshop: Sources of Welfare and Well-Being, Bonn October 2011
NBER Summer Institute, Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop, Summer
2011
NBER Summer Institute, Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop, Summer
2005
European Economic Association Annual Congress, Olso, Austria August 2011
European Economic Association Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria August 2006
European Economic Association Annual Congress, Venice, Italy August 2002
European Economic Association Annual Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain August
1999
IZA Workshop: Sources of Welfare and Well-Being, Bonn October 2011
IAREP/SABE Conference "Behavioral Economics, Economic Psychology: Theory and
Policy", Halifax July 2009
Happiness and relational Goods Conference, Venice June 2009
Happiness and the Economy, CSIP Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco, September 2008
AEA Conference, San Francisco, January 2009
NEUDC conference, Harvard University, October 2007
UK public Economic Week-end meeting, June 2007
DEGIT Conference, Globalization and Growth in a Long Term Perspective, Jerusalem,
June 2006
Royal Economic Society Annual Congress, Warwick, UK, April 2003
CEPR European Summer Symposium on Economic Theory, Gerzensee, Switzerland, July
2001
Invited Seminars
London School of Economics, Bocconi University, Paris School of Economics, University
of Oxford, Bank of England, University of Bristol, Universita di Bologna, Universita di
Verona, Unversita’ Cattolica di Milano, Universita Statale di Milano, University of
Alicante, Royal Holloway, University of Exeter, University of Helsinki, University of
Stockholm, Collegio San-Carlo/University of Turin, CESF-University of Salerno, Ente
Einaudi-Bank of Italy, University of Namur, University of Lille 3
Teaching Experience
Macroeconomic Development, undergraduate level
Macroeconomic Development, graduate level
Introduction to Behavioural Economics, undergraduate level
Experimental Economics, graduate level
Mathematical Economics, undergraduate level
Administrative Responsibilities
MSc in Behavioral & Economic Science (Economics Track) Course Leader
Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee Member
Publications
Happiness and Productivity (joint with Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi), Journal of
Labor Economics, forthcoming.
“A Reassessment of the Relation Between GDP and Life Satisfaction” (joint with Aldo
Rustichini), 27 November 2013, PLOS ONE
“Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization” (Joint with Partick Legros and
Andrew Newman), January 2013, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
"Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being: Comments on 'Subjective WellBeing, Income, Economic Development and Growth by Daniel W.Sacks, Betsey
Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers'' " (Joint with Peter Hammond and Federica Liberini) in
Claudia Sepulveda, Ann Harrison, and Justin Yifu Lin (eds.) ABCDE 2011:
Development Challenges in a Postcrisis World, (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013)
pp. 339--353.
“Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among Young People with Newly-Divorced
Parents? An Experimental and Econometric Approach” (joint with Andrew Oswald
and Daniel Sgroi), Experimental Economics, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2012), Page 1-23
(Leading Article).
“Moral Hazard, Entrepreneurial Misallocation and the Natural Resource Curse” (joint
with Carlo Perroni), Journal of Development Economics, 93 (2010), pp. 63–70
“Democracy, Collective Action and Intra-elite Conflict” (joint with Sayantan Ghosal),
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 93 (2009), pp. 1078-1089
“On the Value of Participation: Endogenous Emergence of Social Norms in a ThreePlayer Ultimatum Game Experiment” (joint with Gianluca Grimalda and Anirban
Kar), International Review of Economics 5 (March 2008)
“Land and the transition from a Dual to a Modern Economy”
Journal of Development Economics , 83 (2007) 88-108
“Bank Fragility and Growth Expectations”, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis
& Policy: (2007) Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 55.
Papers to be Revised and Resubmitted for a Journal
“Everyone Wants a Chance: Initial Positions and Fairness in Ultimatum Games”,
(joint with Gianluca Grimalda and Anirban Kar), May 2012. R&R request from
Experimental Economics
“Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality Theory” (joint with Aldo Rustichini),
September 2011. R&R request from the Journal of Economic Psychology
Working Papers
“Cooperation and Personality” (joint with Aldo Rustichini), October 2013.
“Happy Voters” (joint with Federica Liberini and Michela Redoano), September
2013
“Do Happier Britons Have More Income? First-Order Stochastic Dominance
Relations” (joint with Peter Hammond and Fedrica Liberini), September 2013
“Anonymity, Efficency Wages and Economic Progress” (joint with Stephen
Broadberry and Sayantan Ghosal), June 2013.
“Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence” (joint with Saul Estrin and
Nauro Campos), IZA Discussion Paper No. 5243.
“Self-Centered Beliefs: An Empirical Approach” (joint with Daniel Sgroi), February
2012.
Research Featured In:
"The U-bend of life", (The Economist); The Bliss Point’: The happiest countries are rich
but not too rich (Washington Post) Happy people really do work harder, (The Observer);
"Happiness economics" in reverse: Does happiness affect productivity? (Vox column);
Why more cash won't make you happy (The Observer); "Macht Reichtum doch
unglücklich?", (Frankfurter Allgemeine); "Keep your hands off our Isas, Chancellor",
(The Times); "Happiness study finds that UK is passing point of peak life satisfaction",
(The Guardian); "Experts confirm that money does buy happiness – but only up to
£22,100", (The Independent); "La felicità è a quota 26mila euro: avere di più, provoca
più stress", (La Repubblica); "Molti soldi, poca felicità", (La Stampa); Money Doesn't
Make Neurotics Happy (CNBC); Four Ways To Get A Better Pay Raise (Forbes);
University Students Normally Unscathed by Parental Divorce (ScienceDaily); Parents'
Divorce Doesn't Harm College-Age Kids, (Businessweek); University of Warwick Surviving splitsville, (The Times Higer Education); Don't be naive. Bribery is
everywhere (The Globe and Mail); Corruption as a barrier to entry (Vox column); David
Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win
the next general election", (British Politics and Policy)
Languages
Italian: Mother tongue
English, French: Fluent