Subjective Well-Being

Research here is focused on the analysis of measures of subjective well-being, including measures of life and job satisfaction, and mental health.

Publications

Forthcoming

• Wooden, M., Bubonya, M., and Cobb-Clarke, D.
  'Sickness Absence and Mental Health: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Surveys'
  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. (accepted 10 February 2016)

2016

• Feddersen, J., Metcalfe, R., and Wooden, M.
  'Subjective Well-Being: Why Weather Matters'
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Issue 179(1), January, pp 203-228.

2015

• Cheng, T.C., Powdthavee, N. and Oswald, A.J.
  'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdoms'
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7942.
• Powdthavee, N., Lekfuangfu, W., and Wooden, M
  'What’s the Good of Education on our Overall Quality of Life? A Simultaneous Equation Model of Education and Life Satisfaction for Australia'
  Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Issue 54(1), February, pp 10-21
• Powdthavee, N., and Wooden, M.
  'Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets'
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Issue 116, August, pp 107-126.

2014

• Cheng, T.C., Powdthavee, N. and Oswald, A.J.
  'Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets'
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7942.
• Cummins, R., Li, N., Stokes, M. and Wooden, M.
  'A Demonstration of Set-Points for Subjective Well-Being'
  Journal of Happiness Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 183–206.
• Li, N.
  'Multidimensionality of Longitudinal Data: Unlocking the Age-Happiness Puzzle'
  Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 4/14.
• Powdthavee, N., Lekfuangfu, W. and Wooden M.
  'What’s the Good of Education for Overall Quality of Life? A Structural Equation Model of Education and Life Satisfaction for Australia’, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, vol 54, no. 1, pp. 10–21.
• Wooden, M. and Li, N.
  'Panel Conditioning and Subjective Well-Being'
  Social Indicators Research, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 235–255.

2013

• Boyce, C.J., Wood, A.M. and Powdthavee, N.
  'Is Personality Fixed? Personality Changes as Much as "Variable" Economic Factors and More Strongly Predicts Changes to Life Satisfaction'
  Social Indicators Research, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 287–305.
• Powdthavee, N., Lekfuangfu, W.N. and Wooden, M.
  'The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 16/13.

2012

• Feddersen, J., Metcalfe, R. and Wooden, M.
  'Subjective Well-Being: Weather Matters; Climate Doesn't'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 25/12 (see also University of Oxford, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series, No. 627).

2009

• Shields, M., Wheatley Price, S. and Wooden, M.
  'Life Satisfaction and the Economic and Social Characteristics of Neighbourhoods'
  Journal of Population Economics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 421–443.
• Wooden, M., Warren, D., and Drago, R.
  'Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-Being'
  British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 147–179.

2008

• Headey, B., Muffels, R. and Wooden, M.
  'Money Doesn't Buy Happiness – or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
  Social Indicators Research, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 65–82.
• Scutella, R. and Wooden, M.
  'The Effects of Household Joblessness on Mental Health'
  Social Science and Medicine, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 88–100.

2007

• Wooden, M., Warren, D. and Drago, R.
  'Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-Being'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 29/07.

2006

• Scutella, R. and Wooden, M.
  'Effects of Household Joblessness on Subjective Well-Being'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 10/06.

2005

• Headey, B., Muffels, R. and Wooden, M.
  'Money and Happiness: A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption'
  Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 131–144.
  
• Headey, B. and Wooden, M.
  'Economic Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing: The Effects of Income and Wealth'
  in Lenore Manderson (ed.), Rethinking Well-being: Essays on Health, Disability and Disadvantage, Australian Public Intellectual Network, Curtin University, Perth, pp. 91–109.
• Headey, B. and Wooden, M.
  'The Importance of Wealth for Subjective Well-Being'
  Journal of Financial Transformation, vol. 15, December, pp. 59–67.

2004

• Headey, B., Muffels, R. and Wooden, M.
  'Money Doesn't Buy Happiness … or Does It? A reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 15/04.
• Headey, B. and Wooden, M.
  'The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 3/04.
• Headey, B. and Wooden, M.
  'The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well–Being and Ill–Being'
  Economic Record , vol. 80, September, Special Issue, pp. S24–S33.
• Wooden, M. and Warren, D.
  'Non–standard Employment and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the HILDA Survey'
  Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 46, September, pp. 275–297.

2003

• Shields, M. and Wooden, M.
  'Investigating the Role of Neighbourhood Characteristics in Determining Life Satisfaction'
  Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Working Paper Series No. 24/03.