"The constant interaction during class not only allows the students to get more out of each session, but it also allows me to get to know my students better."
Bio
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.
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
- PI for the paper “Brief Community-Building Interventions in an Undergraduate Synchronous Online Course,” presented at the 2026 International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting. The study explores how brief, intentional activities can foster belonging, psychological safety, and equitable participation in synchronous online classrooms.