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153 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12430
The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data
Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 107-124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336
Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe
Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, 877–901
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12313
The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China
Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang
longer version published in: D.Maddison, K. Rehdanz, H. Welsch (eds.): Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12206
The Impact of Bullying Victimisation on Mental Wellbeing
Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11994
Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries
Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11922
Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 198, 103 - 111
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. 11819
Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11818
Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication
Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11404
The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion
Martin Leites, Xavier Ramos
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 3485 - 3515
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11226
Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks
Bénédicte Apouey, Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2019, 33, 116-123.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11206
Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke C. Plagnol, Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark
published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 471-494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11185
Education, Income and Happiness: Panel Evidence for the UK
Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan
published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 2573 - 2592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11181
The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Julie Moschion, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 206-221
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. 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. 10382
My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households
Anthony Lepinteur, Sarah Flèche, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101866
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10087
Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Journal of Travel Research, 2017, 56 (5), 599-612
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. 9840
Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress
Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676
Paradox Lost?
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9609
The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia
Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei
published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 635–657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9513
Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis
published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50 (1), 175-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9450
Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?
Marc Fleurbaey, Hannes Schwandt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9401
National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Gus O'Donnell, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Ecological Economics, 2015,120, 59 - 70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9312
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?
Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Xi Chen
pubished as 'Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 85, 81 - 94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9282
Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture
Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
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. 9114
Do Employment Protection Reforms Affect Well-Being?
Vanessa Dräger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9055
Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239
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. 8837
Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality
Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 17-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8665
Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2016, 129, 937 - 960
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8589
Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data
Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann
revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587
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. 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. 8238
Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8194
Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders
Rachel Connelly, Michael Iannotti, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang
published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 70 - 88
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8136
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio
published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8127
What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Mark Wooden
substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7877
Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood
Maggie Switek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7654
The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7604
Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
Hannes Schwandt
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 122, 75-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7368
The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
William Betz, Nicole B. Simpson
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:12.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7345
Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life
Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7328
How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review
Beatriz Fabiola López Ulloa, Valerie Moller, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (3), 227-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7309
Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7234
Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7196
China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Richard A. Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Maggie Switek, Fei Wang
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7187
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence
Richard A. Easterlin
published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299
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