Bernard van Praag
Bernard MS van Praag (born February 20, 1939 ) is a Dutch economist . He is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Amsterdam .
Life
Van Praag graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a degree in econometrics in 1968 with his dissertation Individual Welfare and the Theory of Consumer Behavior cum laude . Since then he has held professorships at the Free University of Brussels , the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam .
job
Van Praag is primarily concerned with measuring and explaining welfare and satisfaction . He also works on econometric methodology , labor and health economics , conjoint analysis, and age economics . For a time 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 has been dealing with questions of demographic change since 1986. From 1988 to 1993 van Praag was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch government and in this role played a key role in the preparation of a report on the aging of society, which had a decisive influence on the demographic debate in the Netherlands.
honors and awards
- 1999: Appointment to the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
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" (with Ferrer-i-Carbonell), 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.
Web links
- Profile on the homepage of the University of Amsterdam
- Website of the Research Institute for the Future of Work GmbH (IZA), Bonn
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Praag, Bernard van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Praag, Bernard MS van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1939 |