Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

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Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
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De Neve in 2024
Born (1979-03-14) 14 March 1979 (age 45)
NationalityBelgian
Academic career
Institution University of Oxford
School or
tradition		 Behavioral economics
Alma mater Harvard University (MPP)
London School of Economics (PhD)
Influences John Kenneth Galbraith
Richard Layard

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (born 14 March 1979) is a Belgian economist and University of Oxford professor where he directs the Wellbeing Research Centre. He is also the KSI Fellow and Vice-Principal of Harris Manchester College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. [1] He is known for his research on the economics of wellbeing [2] [3] which has led to new insights into the relationship between wellbeing and income, [4] productivity, [5] [6] firm performance, [7] and economic growth. [8] [9]

Contents

De Neve is the co-editor of the World Happiness Report, [10] which is a publication of the Wellbeing Research Centre in partnership with Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. [11] De Neve is also the co-founder of the World Wellbeing Movement. [12] [13]

De Neve currently guides the development of the world’s largest study on wellbeing at work in collaboration with the global job search site Indeed with over 25 million surveys completed so far. [14] [15] [16] Their workplace wellbeing survey approach has been widely adopted including by S&P Global as part of the annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment underpinning ESG ratings. [17]

De Neve and Richard Layard co-authored the first major textbook on wellbeing science. It was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press and praised by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman as the "best book I have read in a long time - a fountain of knowledge and an inspiring call to action." [18] [19] The book is made freely available by way of open access and has been illustrated by visual artist David Shrigley. [20]

COVID-19 pandemic

De Neve served on The Lancet COVID-19 Commission [21] and wrote in the British Medical Journal proposing to assess lockdown policy options in terms of their net effect on years of human wellbeing, or wellbeing-years (WELLBYs). [22] In May 2020, in an interview with Flemish TV Channel VRT he noted that the economic and mental health consequences of the lockdown disproportionally fall on the younger generations while the health benefits of the lockdown mostly benefit the elderly. His remarks stirred a public debate on the need for targeted fiscal support. [23] De Neve elaborated on this in an interview with Trends Magazine [24] and in pieces for the main Belgian newspapers Le Soir [25] and De Standaard. [26]

Behavioral insights and tax compliance

Starting in 2014, De Neve collaborated with the Ministry of Finance in Belgium to apply behavioral insights to tax compliance. [27] This led to a series of experiments that varied the communication of the tax authority with all income tax-filers in Belgium. This collaboration has become a pioneering example of evidence-based policy making in Europe and its results were published in the Journal of Political Economy. [28] [29] Addressing the Federal Parliament, the Belgian Minister of Finance noted that the trials run in 2015 resulted in €30 million revenue collected more quickly compared with previous years and €4 million additional revenue with €1 million saved in enforcement costs. [30] The cumulative impact over the ensuing years is estimated to have accelerated the payment of over €100 million in late taxes leading to structural gains in tax revenue and administrative cost savings. [31]

Awards

His research was selected among "The Management Ideas that Mattered Most" by Harvard Business Review [32] and he was awarded the Ruut Veenhoven Award by Erasmus Universiteit of Rotterdam for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness. [33]

Education

De Neve was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School where he obtained a Master in Public Policy and was awarded the 2007 Ellen S. Raphael Award for intellectual and personal qualities. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2011 with a thesis titled Essays in Political Economy and Voting Behaviour. [34]

Personal life

De Neve is married to Belgian Architect Aude-Line Dulière, winner of the 2018 Wheelwright Prize. [35]

Books

Selected research publications

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