Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn cv google scholar http://theaok.github.io adam.okulicz.kozaryn@gmail.com
Associate Professor, Dept of Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University, 401 Cooper St, Camden NJ 08102
WORKING/CURRENT PAPERS/SLIDES:
Colombia:
Unlivable but Happy. Fool’s
Paradise? [slides: isqols23]
Urban-Rural Happiness Gradient Theory: (Mechanisms of Urban Unhappiness) [ersa23]
KEY WRITINGS:
2024
Urban Regrets (Unhappy Metros: Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS))
2023
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows (Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones)
2022
Unhappy Metros: Panel Evidence
Misanthropolis: Do Cities Promote Misanthropy?
2021
Urban unhappiness is common
A similar effect of volunteering and pensions on subjective wellbeing of elderly
2020
Religiosity and Trust: Evidence from the United States
The perennial dissatisfaction of urban upbringing
2019
Are we happier among our own race?
The Energy Paradox: Energy Use And Happiness
2018
No Urban Malaise for Millennials
2017
Livability
and Subjective Wellbeing Across European Cities
Life Satisfaction of
Career Women and Housewives
City Life:
Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish
Happiness is flextime
2016
Happy Tourists, Unhappy Locals
Happiness Research for Public Policy and Administration
Unhappy Metropolis (When American City Is Too Big)
More Unequal in Income, More Unequal in Wellebing
Urbanism and Happiness: A Test of Wirth's Theory of Urban Life
2015
Freedom and Life Satisfaction in Transition
Luxury Car Owners Are Not Happier Than Frugal Car Owners
The More Religiosity, the Less Creativity Across US Counties
Income Inequality and Wellbeing
Happiness and Place: Cities v Nature. Why Life is Better Outside of the City?
2014
The Subjective Well-Being Political Paradox: Happy Welfare States and Unhappy
Liberals
Winners and Losers in
Transition: Preferences For Redistribution and Nostalgia For Communism
In Eastern Europe
Freedom From' and 'Freedom To'
across countries
Natural Sprawl
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm
