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Working papers

2025

  1. Christopher P Barrington-Leigh, 2025, "Are international happiness rankings reliable?," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2509.06867, Sep.

2019

  1. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher Paul & Millard-Ball, Adam, 2019, "Global trends towards urban street-network sprawl," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number 2cp5u, Apr, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2cp5u.
  2. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher Paul & Millard-Ball, Adam, 2019, "A global assessment of street network sprawl," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number 6vp8j, Nov, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6vp8j.

2018

  1. Christopher P Barrington-Leigh, 2018, "The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?," Papers, arXiv.org, number 1807.11835, Jul, revised Jan 2024.
  2. John F. Helliwell & Hugh Shiplett & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, 2018, "How Happy are Your Neighbours? Variation in Life Satisfaction among 1200 Canadian Neighbourhoods and Communities," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24592, May.

2010

  1. John F. Helliwell & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, 2010, "Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 15887, Apr.
  2. John F. Helliwell & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, 2010, "How Much is Social Capital Worth?," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 16025, May.
  3. Lara B. Aknin & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh & Elizabeth W. Dunn & John F. Helliwell & Robert Biswas-Diener & Imelda Kemeza & Paul Nyende & Claire E. Ashton-James & Michael I. Norton, 2010, "Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 16415, Sep.

2009

  1. John F. Helliwell & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh & Anthony Harris & Haifang Huang, 2009, "International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14720, Feb.

2008

  1. Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh & John F. Helliwell, 2008, "Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14593, Dec.
  2. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P, 2008, "Veblen goods and neighbourhoods: endogenising consumption reference groups," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 25735.
  3. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P, 2008, "Weather as a transient influence on survey-reported satisfaction with life," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 25736.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Felix Vazquez & Adam Millard-Ball & Christopher Barrington-Leigh, 2026, "Urban development & street-network sprawl in Tokyo," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 19, issue 2, pages 406-425, April, DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2023.2262698.

2025

  1. Ashik, Fajle Rabbi & Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P. & Manaugh, Kevin, 2025, "Built environment's main and moderating associations with travel mode choice across trip purposes," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, volume 129, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104434.
  2. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Adam Millard-Ball, 2025, "A high-resolution global time series of street-network sprawl," Environment and Planning B, , volume 52, issue 6, pages 1525-1536, July, DOI: 10.1177/23998083241306829.

2024

  1. Barrington-Leigh, C.P., 2024, "The econometrics of happiness: Are we underestimating the returns to education and income?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, volume 230, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105052.

2023

  1. C. P. Barrington-Leigh & Katja Lemermeyer, 2023, "A Public, Open, and Independently-Curated Database of Happiness Coefficients," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, volume 24, issue 4, pages 1505-1531, April, DOI: 10.1007/s10902-023-00652-4.

2021

  1. Sara Miñarro & Victoria Reyes-García & Shankar Aswani & Samiya Selim & Christopher P Barrington-Leigh & Eric D Galbraith, 2021, "Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, volume 16, issue 1, pages 1-15, January, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244569.

2019

  1. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Eric Galbraith, 2019, "Feasible future global scenarios for human life evaluations," Nature Communications, Nature, volume 10, issue 1, pages 1-8, December, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08002-2.
  2. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Jill Baumgartner & Ellison Carter & Brian E. Robinson & Shu Tao & Yuanxun Zhang, 2019, "An evaluation of air quality, home heating and well-being under Beijing’s programme to eliminate household coal use," Nature Energy, Nature, volume 4, issue 5, pages 416-423, May, DOI: 10.1038/s41560-019-0386-2.
  3. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Jan T. Wollenberg, 2019, "Informing Policy Priorities using Inference from Life Satisfaction Responses in a Large Community Survey," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, volume 14, issue 4, pages 911-924, September, DOI: 10.1007/s11482-018-9629-9.

2018

  1. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Alice Escande, 2018, "Measuring Progress and Well-Being: A Comparative Review of Indicators," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, volume 135, issue 3, pages 893-925, February, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1505-0.

2017

  1. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher & Behzadnejad, Fatemeh, 2017, "The impact of daily weather conditions on life satisfaction: Evidence from cross-sectional and panel data," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, volume 59, issue C, pages 145-163, DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2017.01.003.
  2. Barrington-Leigh, Christopher & Ouliaris, Mark, 2017, "The renewable energy landscape in Canada: A spatial analysis," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, volume 75, issue C, pages 809-819, DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.061.
  3. Genevieve Gariepy & Frank J Elgar & Mariane Sentenac & Christopher Barrington-Leigh, 2017, "Early-life family income and subjective well-being in adolescents," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, volume 12, issue 7, pages 1-11, July, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179380.
  4. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Fatemeh Behzadnejad, 2017, "Erratum to: Evaluating the short-term cost of low-level local air pollution: a life satisfaction approach," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, volume 19, issue 1, pages 229-229, January, DOI: 10.1007/s10018-016-0159-0.

2016

  1. Christopher Barrington-Leigh, 2016, "Sustainability and Well-Being: A Happy Synergy," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, volume 59, issue 3, pages 292-298, December, DOI: 10.1057/s41301-017-0113-x.

2015

  1. Christopher Barrington-Leigh & Bronwen Tucker & Joaquin Kritz Lara, 2015, "The Short-Run Household, Industrial, and Labour Impacts of the Quebec Carbon Market," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, volume 41, issue 4, pages 265-280, December, DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2015-015.

2013

  1. Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, 2013, "The Quebec Convergence and Canadian Life Satisfaction, 1985-2008," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, volume 39, issue 2, pages 193-219, June, DOI: 10.3138/CPP.39.2.193.

2010

  1. Jon Hall & Christopher Barrington-Leigh & John Helliwell, 2010, "Cutting through the Clutter: Searching for an Over-Arching Measure of Well-Being," ifo DICE Report, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, volume 8, issue 04, pages 8-12, January.
  2. John F. Helliwell & Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, 2010, "Viewpoint: Measuring and understanding subjective well-being," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, volume 43, issue 3, pages 729-753, August, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01592.x.

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