Krekel, Christian

Number of items: 62.
Article
  • Krekel, Christian, Goebel, Jan, Rehdanz, Katrin (2026). The value of a park in crises: quantifying the health and wellbeing benefits of green spaces using exogenous variations in use values. Journal of Health Economics, 107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103123
  • Kavetsos, Georgios, Krekel, Christian, Melios, George (2025). Not as bad as I thought’ economic attitudes and motivated reasoning in coalition governments. Political Psychology, 46(6), 1987 - 2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70022 picture_as_pdf
  • Venkatesh, Shrathinth, Skarda, Ieva, Villadsen, Aase, Asaria, Miqdad, Boehnke, Jan R., Brennan, Alan, Krekel, Christian, Mon-Williams, Mark, Ploubidis, George & Tiffin, Paul A. et al (2025). LifeSim childhood: extrapolating intervention effects and public cost savings from birth to adolescence in the UK. International Journal of Microsimulation, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Mallock, Nils, Krekel, Christian (2025). Proximity to settlements in the West Bank shifts protest behavior toward higher‐risk actions and increases perceived collective injustice. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70068 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Kavetsos, Georgios, Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2025). Passing on the flame: do mega sports events promote health behaviours? Social Science & Medicine, 377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117921 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Shreedhar, Ganga, Lee, Helen, Marshall, Claire, Boler, Alison, Smith, Allison, Dolan, Paul (2024). Happy to help: welfare effects of a nationwide volunteering programme. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-64. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01533 picture_as_pdf
  • Frijters, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Sanchis, Raul, Santini, Ziggi Ivan (2024). The WELLBY: a new measure of social value and progress. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03229-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Swanke, Sarah (2024). Affective paternalism. Behavioural Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.24 picture_as_pdf
  • Mascherek, Anna, Düzel, Sandra, Eibich, Peter, Krekel, Christian, Goebel, Jan, Gallinat, Jürgen, Wagner, Gert G., Lindenberger, Ulman, Kühn, Simone (2024). Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: results from the Berlin aging study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102224 picture_as_pdf
  • Cooper, Kristen, Fabian, Mark, Krekel, Christian (2023). New approaches to measuring welfare. Fiscal Studies, 44(2), 123 - 135. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12333 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Swanke, Sarah, Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De, Fancourt, Daisy (2023). Happiness predicts compliance with preventive health behaviours during Covid-19 lockdowns. Scientific Reports, 13, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33136-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Frijters, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Ulker, Aydogan (2023). Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 205, 1 - 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.047 picture_as_pdf
  • Bertram, Christine, Goebel, Jan, Krekel, Christian, Rehdanz, Katrin (2022). Urban land use fragmentation and human well-being. Land Economics, 98(2), 399 - 420. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.122019-0175R1 picture_as_pdf
  • Drewelies, Johanna, Eibich, Peter, Düzel, Sandra, Kühn, Simone, Krekel, Christian, Goebel, Jan, Kolbe, Jens, Demuth, Ilja, Lindenberger, Ulman & Wagner, Gert G. et al (2022). Location, location, location: the role of objective neighborhood characteristics for perceptions of control. Gerontology, 68(2), 214 - 223. https://doi.org/10.1159/000515634 picture_as_pdf
  • Kühn, Simone, Düzel, Sandra, Mascherek, Anna, Eibich, Peter, Krekel, Christian, Kolbe, Jens, Goebel, Jan, Gallinat, Jürgen, Wagner, Gert G., Lindenberger, Ulman (2021). Urban green is more than the absence of city: structural and functional neural basis of urbanicity and green space in the neighbourhood of older adults. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104196 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, De Neve, Jan Emmanuel, Fancourt, Daisy, Layard, Richard (2021). A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: evidence from a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 188, 322 - 336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.05.021 picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Kavetsos, Georgios, Krekel, Christian, Mavridis, Dimitris, Metcalfe, Robert, Senik, Claudia, Szymanski, Stefan, Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2019). Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data. Journal of Public Economics, 177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.07.002 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Zerrahn, Alexander (2017). Does the presence of wind turbines have negative externalities for people in their surroundings? evidence from well-being data. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 82, 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.11.009
  • Kühn, Simone, Düzel, Sandra, Eibich, Peter, Krekel, Christian, Wüstemann, Henry, Kolbe, Jens, Martensson, Johan, Goebel, Jan, Gallinat, Jürgen & Wagner, Gert G. et al (2017). In search of features that constitute an “enriched environment” in humans: Associations between geographical properties and brain structure. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12046-7
  • Wüstemann, Henry, Kolbe, Jens, Krekel, Christian (2017). Gesundheitswirkung städtischer Grünräume: eine empirische Analyse. Natur und Landschaft, 92(1). https://doi.org/10.17433/1.2017.50153433.31-37
  • Eibich, P., Krekel, C., Demuth, I., Wagner, G.G. (2016). Associations between neighborhood characteristics: well-being and health vary over the life course. Gerontology, 62(3), 362-370. https://doi.org/10.1159/000438700 picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Kolbe, Jens, Wüstemann, Henry (2016). The greener, the happier? the effect of urban land use on residential well-being. Ecological Economics, 121, 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.11.005 picture_as_pdf
  • Goebel, Jan, Krekel, Christian, Tiefenbach, Tim, Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2015). How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics: evidence from Fukushima and three European countries. Journal of Population Economics, 28(4), 1137-1180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-015-0558-8 picture_as_pdf
    • Chapter
  • Frijters, Paul, Krekel, Christian (2025). WELLBY. In Chuah, S., Hoffmann, R. & Neelim, A. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics (pp. 408 - 410). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207736.000126
  • Bellaunay, Rémy, Prati, Alberto, Krekel, Christian (2024). Money and happiness. In Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing (pp. 139-146). Edward Elgar.
  • Krekel, Christian (2023). Impairment. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium (pp. p. 282). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.I.3
  • Krekel, Christian (2023). Life satisfaction. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium (pp. 325-326). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.L.25
  • Krekel, Christian (2023). Subjective well-being. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium (pp. 513-514). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.S.80
  • Krekel, Christian, Kolbe, J (2020). New ways of valuing ecosystem services: big data, machine learning, and the value of urban green spaces. In Ruth, M. (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Environmental Economics . Edward Elgar.
  • Krekel, Christian (2020). Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonic price data: the case of wind turbines. In Maddison, D., Rehdanz, K. & Welsch, H. (Eds.), Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment (pp. 297 - 317). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119344.00024
  • De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Krekel, Christian (2020). Cities and happiness: a global ranking and analysis. In Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R. & Sachs, J. D. (Eds.), World Happiness Report 2020 (pp. 47 - 66). Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
  • Krekel, Christian, MacKerron, George (2020). How environmental quality affects our happiness. In Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R. & Sachs, J. D. (Eds.), World Happiness Report 2020 (pp. 95 - 112). Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2019). What makes for a good job? Evidence using subjective wellbeing data. In Rojas, M. (Ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress (pp. 241 - 268). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_11
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2019). Employee well-being, productivity, and firm performance: evidence and case studies. In Sachs, J. D., Adler, A., Bin Bashr, A., de Neve, J., Durand, M., Diener, E., Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R. & Seligman, M. (Eds.), Global Happiness and Wellbeing: Policy Report 2019 (pp. 72 - 93). Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2019). The role of firms for societal well-being. In Sachs, J. D. (Ed.), Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report . Sustainable Development Solutions Network. [In Press]
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2018). Work and well-being: a global perspective. In Sachs, J. D., Bin Bashir, A., de Neve, J., Durand, M., Diener, E., Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R. & Seligman, M. (Eds.), Global Happiness: Policy Report 2018 (pp. 74 - 127). Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
    • Dataset
  • Krekel, Christian (2024). Replication data for: "Happy to Help: Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Volunteering Programme". [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/5hfdzi
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2019). What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/0eeotm
    • Report
  • International Positive Education Network (2017). The state of positive education. World Government Summit.
    • Working paper
  • Oparina, Ekaterina, Krekel, Christian, Srisuma, Sorawoot (2024). Talking therapy: impacts of a nationwide mental health service in England. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1982). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Rode, Johannes, Roth, Alexander (2023). Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1950). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, MacKerron, George (2023). Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1932). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Santos, Indhira, Petroska-Beska, Violeta, Carneiro, Pedro, Eskreis-Winkler, Lauren, Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria, Berneil, Ines, Krekel, Christian, Arias, Omar, Duckworth, Angela (2022). Can grit be taught? Lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1878). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Shreedhar, Ganga, Lee, Helen, Marshall, Claire, Smith, Allison (2021). Happy to help: the welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme. (CEP Discussion Papers 1772). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Rechlitz, Julia, Rode, Johannes, Zerrahn, Alexander (2020). Quantifying the externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data: the case of biogas. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1738). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Anand, Paul, Blanchflower, Danny, Bovens, Luc, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Graham, Carol, Nolan, Brian, Krekel, Christian, Thoma, Johanna (2020). Post-Covid 19 economic development and policy: submitted as recommendations to the Scottish economic recovery group. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Layard, Richard, Clark, Andrew E., De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Krekel, Christian, Fancourt, Daisy, Hey, Nancy, O'Donnell, Gus (2020). When to release the lockdown: a wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits. (CEP Occasional Papers 49). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Frijters, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Ulker, Aydogan (2020). Machiavelli versus concave utility functions should bads be spread out or concentrated? (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1680). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Fancourt, Daisy, Layard, Richard (2020). A local community course that raises mental wellbeing and pro-sociality. (CEP Discussion Papers 1671). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Frijters, Paul, Clark, Andrew E., Krekel, Christian, Layard, Richard (2019). A happy choice: wellbeing as the goal of government. (CEP Discussion paper 1658). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Dolan, Paul, Kavetsos, Georgios, Krekel, Christian, Mavridis, Dimitris, Metcalfe, Robert, Senik, Claudia, Szymanski, Stefan, Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2019). Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data. (CEP Discussion Papers 1643). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Ward, George, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel (2019). Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance. (CEP discussion paper 1605). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Krekel, Christian (2017). Can rising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? Unintended consequences of a German high school reform. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1495). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Dolan, Paul, Kavetsos, Georgios, Krekel, Christian, Mavridis, Dimitris, Metcalfe, Robert, Senik, Claudia, Szymanski, Stefan, Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (2016). The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness. (CEP Discussion Paper 1441). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
    • Blog post
  • Krekel, Christian (10 July 2025) What is the value of a park? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, MacKerron, George, Stead, Iven (7 February 2025) Using people's feelings to value time. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, MacKerron, George (30 August 2023) How much is your time worth? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Shreedhar, Ganga, Lee, Helen, Marshall, Claire, Smith, Allison (2 June 2021) Happy to help: how a UK micro-volunteering programme increased people’s wellbeing. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Krekel, Christian, Wharton, George (21 May 2021) Don’t let fears about the Indian variant stop us thinking rationally about risk. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Dolan, Paul, Layard, Richard, O’Donnell, Gus, Delaney, Liam, Krekel, Christian, Sanders, Jet, Blanco Jimenez, Celia, Laffan, Kate, Kavetsos, Georgios, Kudrna, Laura (5 March 2021) How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Krekel, Christian, Swanke, Sarah, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Fancourt, Daisy (24 September 2020) Are happier people more compliant? Evidence from lockdowns. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Layard, Richard, Clark, Andrew E., De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Krekel, Christian (13 May 2020) When to release the lockdown? A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
    • This list was generated on Wed Mar 11 05:41:55 2026 GMT.