IZA Discussion Papers

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. 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. 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. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11763

Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz

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. 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. 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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907

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

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara

published online as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 22 June 2023

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. 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. 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. 10155

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