IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14246

The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children

Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (3), 128-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14240

Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-Day Reform

Jorge M. Aguero, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13923

The Easterlin Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13905

How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?

Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13872

Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Jan Bietenbeck

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13752

Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being across Countries

Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 600-617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13702

The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore

Terence Chai Cheng, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13700

Flexible Jobs Make Parents Happier: Evidence from Australia

Shuye Yu, Agnieszka Postepska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13692

The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Arthur Grimes, Stephen P. Jenkins, Florencia Tranquilli

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 309 - 330

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13603

Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching: An American Case Study

Natalia Radchenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13445

Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior

Nathan Kettlewell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13445

Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior

Nathan Kettlewell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13355

Does Policy Communication during COVID-19 Work?

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13224

The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13094

Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany

Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Klaus Wälde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13058

Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Hai-Anh Dang, Kseniya Abanokova, Michael Lokshin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13056

Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font Gilabert, Joanna Maselko

revised and resubmitted: Economic Journal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12945

Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 58 - 73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12832

The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China

Haiyang Lu, Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Child Indicators Research, 2021, 14, 117–137.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12811

Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (3), 547- 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12810

Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2020, 54 (3), 211-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12720

A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard

published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12684

Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?

Patrick A. Puhani, Philip Yang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 333 - 341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12636

The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-being

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31(1), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12622

Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Alois Stutzer

published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4 (2), 210-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12547

Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Renuka Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, 104043

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12522

Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles

Lukas Kiessling, Pia Pinger, Philipp K. Seegers, Jan Bergerhoff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519

Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12422

Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

Published in Social Indicators Research, 2020, 147 (1), 73 - 94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12393

Financial Crises and Liberalization: Progress or Reversals?

Orkun Saka, Nauro F. Campos, Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji, Angelo Martelli

forthcoming in: Campos, N., P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds), Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe, Cambridge University Press

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12370

Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind

Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12215

Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12152

Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth about Happiness Scales

Le-Yu Chen, Ekaterina Oparina, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Sorawoot Srisuma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12145

Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany

Joachim Merz, Normen Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12071

Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Lili Kang, Fei Peng, Yu Zhu

published in: Studies in Higher Education. Published online 11 Dec 2019 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1698538)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11993

Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Younghwan Song, Jia Gao

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, 21, 2649-2668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11989

Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, Arnaud Maurel

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (3), 817 - 842

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11961

Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension

Louise Grogan, Fraser Summerfield

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11879

Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Health insurance and subjective well-being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (1), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11823

The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models

Karina Doorley, Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 51-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11808

Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard J. Murphy, Felix Weinhardt

published online in: Review of Economics and Statisics, 15 October 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763

Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11624

Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597

Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed

published as 'Global terror, well-being and political attitudes' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, Article 103394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11581

Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka

forthcoming in: Management Science, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11318

Unfairness at Work: Well-Being and Quits

Conchita D'Ambrosio, Andrew E. Clark, Marta Barazzetta

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 307-316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11102

Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11099

The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

Bert van Landeghem, Anneleen Vandeplas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098

Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11043

Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?

Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2299-2320.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10962

The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-being

Younghwan Song

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52 (13), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10908

'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8