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published in the Economic Journal as 'Just Ask Them Twice: Choice Probabilities and Identification of Ex ante returns and Willingness-To-Pay', DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17145

Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Kelsey J. O'Connor, Stefano Bartolini

published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (3), 749-774

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16905

Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction

Daniele Marchesi, Milena Nikolova, Viola Angelini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16865

The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?

Thomas Epper, Julien Senn, Ernst Fehr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16718

Using Life Satisfaction and Happiness Data for Environmental Valuation: An Experienced Preference Approach

Susana Ferreira, Mirko Moro, Heinz Welsch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16634

Subjective Gender-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis

Marco Bertoni, Blas A. Marin-Lopez, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16479

The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published as 'The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood ' in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2024, 14 (3), 3513, 1-28

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16417

What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries

Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Marcello Perez-Alvarez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16381

International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level

Wolfgang Keller, Hale Utar

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16374

Persistence of the Spillover Effects of Violence and Educational Trajectories

María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2026, 181, 103759

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16355

Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16255

China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16168

Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho, Marco Pariguana

this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 10360 (2016).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16155

Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2026, 1-42.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16123

Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16090

Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 51 (1), 1-34.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16073

Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection

Pataporn Sukontamarn, Niaz Asadullah, Nopphawan Photphisutthiphong, Yen Thi Hai Nguyen

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 1729–1757

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16028

Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

Thomas Dohmen, Elena Shvartsman

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904

Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15828

Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being

Younghwan Song, Jia Gao

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 1083-1117

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15788

Beliefs about Maternal Labor Supply

Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15710

Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Scott Ohlmacher, Itay Saporta-Eksten

published as '2020 Klein Lecture—Investment and Subjective Uncertainty' in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (4), 1591 - 1606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15669

A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 43, 10-40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15637

Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil, Andrea Smurra

published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15633

The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices

Michela M. Tincani, Fabian Kosse, Enrico Miglino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576

It Hurts to Ask

Roland Benabou, Ania Jaroszewicz, George Loewenstein

published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15574

The Downward Spiral

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15560

First Generation Elite: The Role of School Networks

Sarah Cattan, Kjell G. Salvanes, Emma Tominey

forthcoming in: American Economic Review

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15496

Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

David Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15443

Consumption Choices and Earnings Expectations: Empirical Evidence and Structural Estimation

Christian A. Stoltenberg, Arne Uhlendorff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369

Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers

Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15307

Perceived Returns to Job Search

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15299

Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums

Yu Zhu, Lei Xu

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15244

Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Hai-Anh H Dang, Kseniya Abanokova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15229

Pandemic-Era Uncertainty

Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, José María Barrero, Steven J. Davis, David Altig, Nicholas Bloom

published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022, 15 (8), 338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15141

The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries

Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Daniel Santín

forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15140

Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners

Joachim Merz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14980

Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Studies, 2023, 18, 9 - 41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14910

Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Philippe Coulangeon, Denis Fougère

published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, 43 (7), 1052–1075.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870

Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany

Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14749

The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being

Enrico Bertacchini, Valentina Bolognesi, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14742

Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension

Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli, Clémentine Garrouste

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 10171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14742

Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension

Eric Bonsang, Eve Caroli, Clémentine Garrouste

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 10171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14736

Carpooling: User Profiles and Well-being

Lucía Echeverría, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14705

Project Aid and Firm Performance

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi, Saumik Paul

published online as 'Aid Projects and Firm Performance' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14705

Project Aid and Firm Performance

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi, Saumik Paul

published online as 'Aid Projects and Firm Performance' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14666

Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions

Monique Löwe, Ulf Rinne, Hendrik Sonnabend

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30 (11), 1526 - 1530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645

Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?

Richard A. Easterlin

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14632

The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test

Jeffrey R. Bloem, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 689 - 710

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14527

What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions about Economics

Peter Andre, Armin Falk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14431

Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme

Paul Dolan, Christian Krekel, Ganga Shreedhar, Helen Lee, Claire Marshall, Allison Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14430

Green Mobility and Well-Being

Lucía Echeverría, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published in: Ecological Economics, 2022, 195, 107368

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14368

A Generation of Italian Economists

Enrico Nano, Ugo Panizza, Martina Viarengo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14289

Expecting Better? How Young People Form Their Earnings Expectations

Marta Favara, Paul Glewwe, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14270

Happiness, Domains of Life Satisfaction, Perceptions, and Valuation Differences Across Genders

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Stephen Farrington

published in: Acta Psychologica, 2022, 230, 103720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14258

Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music

Emmanouil Benetos, Alessandro Ragano, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell

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

forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2026/04/01/jhr.1122-12673R2

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

revised version published online as 'Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?' in: Economic Journal, 27 June 2024

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

published as 'Life Satisfaction Changes And Adaptation In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Singapore' in: Singapore Economic Review, 2024, 69 (1), 1-34.

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