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published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474

Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11832

Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being: A Panel Analysis for Germany

Joachim Merz

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. 9363

Ten Facts You Need To Know About Hiring

Samuel Mühlemann, Mirjam Strupler Leiser

published as "Hiring costs and labor market tightness" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 122-131.

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. 8915

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, Joseph S. Shapiro

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (1), 105–159

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. 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. 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. 7982

Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7656

The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer

published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (2), 193–218

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. 7370

Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova, Achim Schmillen

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7357

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

Abel Brodeur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7105

The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6945

Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Nattavudh Powdthavee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6872

Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Javier E. Baez, Dorothy Kronick, Andrew D. Mason

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6426

Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS

Andrew E. Clark, Yannis Georgellis

published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (319), 496–512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5629

Are Self-Employed Really Happier Than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes

Dominik Hanglberger, Joachim Merz

published as 'Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48, 287 - 303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5595

Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik

published in: Robert Peccoud (Ed.), Measure For Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, 2011, 99-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4806

Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members

Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4485

Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3604

Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data

Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields

published as 'Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 190 - 211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2237

Is Man Doomed to Progress?

Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (1), 140-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2208

Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges

Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2079

Hedonic Capital

Liam Graham, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1952

What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction

Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey

published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 712

Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Ernst Fehr, Joseph Henrich

published in: P. Hammerstein (ed.), Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004

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