Bernard van Praag

Bernard MS van Praag ( born February 20, 1939) is a Dutch economist. He is a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Amsterdam.

Life

Van Praag in 1968 completed his degree in Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam with his dissertation Individual Welfare and the Theory of Consumer Behaviour cum laude. Since then he had professorships at the Free University of Brussels, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam.

Work

Van Praag is concerned primarily with the measurement and explanation of welfare and satisfaction. He is also working on econometric methodology, labor economics and health economics, conjoint analysis and the Economics of Aging. At times, van Praag was director of the Dutch Foundation for Economic Research.

Van Praag is a member of the founding board of the European Society for Population Economics ( ESPE), which deals since 1986 with the demographic shift. From 1988 to 1993 van Praag was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch government and was involved in this function instrumental in the drafting of a report on the aging of society, has the demographic debate in the Netherlands decisively shaped.

Honors and Awards

Recent Publications

  • "Using happiness surveys to value intangibles: The case of airport noise" ( with Barbara Baarsma ), Economic Journal 115, 224-246, 2005.
  • "Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach Oxford University Press " ( Ferrer -i - Carbonell with ), Oxford: UK. , 2004.
  • " The Anatomy of Subjective Well-being " (with P. Frijters and A. Ferrer -i - Carbonell ), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 51, 29-49 ( 2003).
  • "The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases. An alternative model for monetary appraisal " (with A. Ferrer -i - Carbonell ), Health Economics, Vol 11, 709-722 ( 2002).
  • " The Measurement of Welfare and Well-Being, the Leyden Approach" (with P. Frijters ), in: Well-Being: the Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, D. Kahneman, E. Diener, N. Schwarz ( eds. ), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 413-433, 1999.
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