Selected Recent (since 2015) Publications organised by subject matter – see CV for complete list
Economics of happiness
Chaudhuri, K., and Howley, P. (2022) The impact of covid-19 vaccination for mental health. European Economic Review, 150, 104293.
Howley, P. and Waqas, M. (2022) Identity, immigration and subjective well-being. Oxford Economic Papers, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpac045.
Ocean, N. and Howley, P. (2022) Which motivations would make farmers happier, and which would they choose? Land Economics, In press. Working paper version available here
Howley, P. and Knight, S. (2021) Staying down with the Joneses: Differences in the psychological cost of unemployment across neighbourhoods, Work, Employment and Society:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09500170211003483
Howley, P., Waqas, M., Moro, M., Delaney, L. and Heron, T. (2020) It's not all about the economy stupid! Immigration and self-reported well-being in England. Work, Employment and Society, 1-18.
Ocean, N., Howley, P. and Ensor, J. (2019) Lettuce Be Happy: A longitudinal UK Study on the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and well-being. Social Science and Medicine, 335-345.
Howley, P. (2017) Less money or better health? Evaluating individuals’ willingness to make trade-offs using life satisfaction data. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 135-53-65.
Howley, P., Dillon, E., Heanue, K. and Meredith, D. (2017) Worth the risk? The behavioural path to well-being. Journal of Agricultural Economics 68, 534-552.
Howley, P., O Neill, S. and Atkinson, R. (2015) Who needs good neighbours? Environment and Planning A, 47, 939-956.
Invited revisions
Anaya, L. Howley, P. Waqas, M., and Yalonetzky, G. (2022) Locked down in distress: A quasi-experimental estimation of the mental health fallout from the covid-19 pandemic. Revise and Resubmit, Economic Inquiry, Working paper version available here
Nudges/Behavioural change
Howley, P. and Ocean, N. (2022) Can nudging only get you so far? Testing for nudge combination effects, European Review of Agricultural Economics https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbab041.
Howley, P. and Ocean, N. (2021) Doing more with less: Leveraging social norms and status concerns in encouraging conservation farm practices. Land Economics, 97, 372-387.
Ocean, N. and Howley, P. (2021) Using choice framing to improve the design of agricultural subsidy schemes. Land Economics, 933-950.
Farmer Behaviour
Howley, P. (2015) The happy farmer: the effect of nonpecuniary benefits on behaviour. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 97, 1072-1096.
Howley, P., Buckley, C., Donoghue, C. and Ryan, M. (2015) Explaining the economic ‘irrationality’ of farmers’ land use behaviour: the role of productivist attitudes and non-pecuniary benefits. Ecological Economics, 109, 186-193.
Marr, E. and Howley, P. (2019) The accidental environmentalists: factors affecting farmer’s adoption of pro-environmental activities in England and Ontario. Journal of Rural Studies, 68, 1000-111.
Environment
Ensor, J., Mohan, T., Forrester, J., Khisa, U.K., Karim, T. and Howley, P. (2021) Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: a subjective approach to household resilience assessment. Global Environmental Change, 68.
Trujillo, J. and Howley, P. (2021) The effect of weather on crime in a ‘Torrid’ urban zone. Environment and Behavior, 53, 69-90.
O Donoghue, C., Buckley, C. Chyzheuskaya, A., Green, S., Hynes, S., Ryan, M. and Howley, P. (2021) The spatial impact of rural economic change on river water quality. Land Use Policy, 103, 1-13.
Taherzadeh, O. and Howley, P. (2017) No net loss of what, for whom? Stakeholder perspectives on Biodiversity Offsetting in England. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-24
Key working papers under review
Howley, P. Waqas, M. and Ocean, N. (2021) Open minds, open borders: Individual differences in the relationship between immigration and psychological well-being. Available here
Chen, R., Kesidou, E. and Howley P. (2022) The impact of ETS on Productivity in developing economies: A micro-econometric evaluation with Chinese firm-level data. Available here
Zhang, Y., Howley, P. and Hetschko, C. (2022) Tiger hunting and life satisfaction: A matter of trust? Available here