IZA Discussion Papers

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 in: Review of Economics and Statistics 2023, 105 (6), 1426–1441.

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

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190177.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597

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

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. 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

published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956

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 B. Bargain, Xavier Jara

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907

Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Xavier Jara

published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10774

Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency

Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21(1), 83-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10770

Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Tomi Kyyrä, José María Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano

published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10735

Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen, Karine Nyborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10693

The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises

Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn J. Burger, Duco de Vos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10545

True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment

Stephen L. Cheung, Lachlan Johnstone

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10452

The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10344

Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub

published as 'Early subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 34-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10344

Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub

published as 'Early subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 34-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10329

The Gravity Model of Migration: The Successful Comeback of an Ageing Superstar in Regional Science

Jacques Poot, Omoniyi Alimi, Michael P. Cameron, David C. Maré

published in: Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016, 36, 63-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10216

Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10165

Teacher Expectations Matter

Nicholas W. Papageorge, Seth Gershenson, Kyungmin Kang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(2): 234-251.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10155

Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale- and Measure-Dependence

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10088

Happiness and Development

Milena Nikolova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10058

Towards a Theory of Life Satisfaction Accounting for Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-Year Life Trajectories in Germany

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9939

When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell, W. Craig Riddell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9934

Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Carol Lee Graham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9856

Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau, J. Todd Swarthout

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9811

Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being

Karen Maguire, John V. Winters

published in: Growth and Change, 2017, 48 (4), 590-610

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9726

Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being

Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 265-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9636

Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9484

Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition

Milena Nikolova

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9451

Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being

Massimiliano Tani

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 47-61

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9450

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?

Marc Fleurbaey, Hannes Schwandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9449

The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR

Jan Bietenbeck

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9445

Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Zachary Bleemer, Basit Zafar

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9400

Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9397

Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Wang-Sheng Lee, Zhong Zhao

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9396

A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being

Younghwan Song

published in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2017, 7 (1), 65-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9395

Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 95-101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9285

The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations

Patrick Kampkötter, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9278

Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts

Seamus McGuinness, Luis Ortiz

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9253

Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia

Stephane Mahuteau, Rong Zhu

published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25, 1448–1463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9252

(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (1), 245–283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9252

(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (1), 245–283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9247

The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

Published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (596), F28-F65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9247

The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

Published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (596), F28-F65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9226

Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-being?

Xiaoyan Lei, Yan Shen, James P. Smith, Guangsu Zhou

published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, 6, 57 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9195

Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi

extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9163

Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9120

Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog

published as 'Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? Evidence from healthcare' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 141, 135 - 150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9096

Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Lucy Stokes

published in: Human Relations, 2017, 70 (8), 1017-1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9017

Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8970

Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh

Sarmistha Pal

published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 143, 194 - 203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8966

Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

John V. Winters, Yu Li

published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (8), 1956-1973

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8954

Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools

Benjamin Beranek, Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1 (1), 43-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8935

Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia

Joseph J. Sabia, Mark Wooden

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (4), 903-931.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8914

The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8658

Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks

Luc Bissonnette, Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e285-e303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8656

Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Simone Ghislandi

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 591–600

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8583

Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8583

Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8549

Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Teresa Romano

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (12), 4475 - 4522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8536

House Price Expectations

Geng Niu, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8535

Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models

Tilman Drerup, Benjamin Enke, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

published as: 'The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 378-389

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8530

Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8520

In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries

Milena Nikolova, Carol Lee Graham

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 164-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8498

Happy Voters

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano, Eugenio Proto

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8435

Happiness and Work

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

published in: James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 10, Elsevier, Oxord, 515-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8270

In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal

Sarmistha Pal, Bibhas Saha

published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8207

Life Events and Subjective Well-being: The Case of Having Children

Peder J. Pedersen, Torben Dall Schmidt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8175

Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System

Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren, Giorgio Topa

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 161–209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8131

Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer

published in: K. Sheldon and R.E. Lucas (eds.): Stability of Happiness, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7942

Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets

Terence Chai Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (599), 126 - 142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7836

Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker

Masaru Sasaki, Fumio Ohtake

published in: Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, 2013, 6, 37-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7651

Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income

Iván Fernández-Val, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Francis Vella

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 25, 85-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7618

A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers

Martin Guzi, Pablo de Pedraza

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 48-67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7579

Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall, Basit Zafar

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7531

If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Rachel Connelly, Jean Kimmel

published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7452

Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan, Max F. Steinhardt, David Ulph

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 24.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7430

Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15(4), 937-956

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7399

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Petri Böckerman, Mika Maliranta

published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (4), 878-914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7395

Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo, Virgilio Galdo

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 112-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7363

Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Robert Dur, Jan Tichem

published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7357

Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Abel Brodeur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7353

Subjective Well‐Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 598-604

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