Robson Morgan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Accomplishments
- Awarded a Global Laboratory for Quality of Life Winter School Fellowship in Tuscany
- Has had his research featured in the Economist and the NY Times, and has been published in various scientific journals
- Labor Market Policy and Subjective Well-being During the Great Recession
- Book Chapter: Growth and Subjective Well-Being in China
- Does the U-shape Pattern in Life Cycle Satisfaction Obscure Reality? A Response to Blanchflower
- Well-Being in Transition: Life Satisfaction in Urban China from 2002 to 2012
- Experienced Life Cycle Satisfaction in Europe
- Wealthier, Happier and More Self-Sufficient: When Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Economic and Subjective Wellbeing at a Reduced Cost to Taxpayers
- China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Before joining Minerva, Robson Morgan worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of Southern California’s Center for Economic and Social Research. Specializing in happiness economics — the quantitative and theoretical study of happiness — his research focuses on answering the question: what policies can governments implement to make their citizens happier? Morgan earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, and his B.A. from the University of British Columbia.