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60 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15958
How Does Immigration Affect Housing Costs in Switzerland?
Fabienne Helfer, Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15584
Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses: The Origins of Reference Groups
Martin Leites, Camila Paleo, Xavier Ramos, Gonzalo Salas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15248
Scientific Advancements in Illegal Drugs Production and Institutional Responses: New Psychoactive Substances, Self-Harm, and Violence inside Prisons
Rocco D'Este
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15134
Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State
Michele Di Maio, Francesco Fasani, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Vasco Molini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
Judith Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14820
Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Katharina Hartinger, Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14100
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
forthcoming in: Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds.), Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge: CUP, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13494
A Brief Introduction to Human Capital Measures
Gang Liu, Barbara M. Fraumeni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13166
Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11763
Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser, Lina Diaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11359
Drivers of Participation Elasticities across Europe: Gender or Earner Role within the Household?
Charlotte Bartels, Cortnie Shupe
forthcoming in: International Tax and Public Finance
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11215
Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries
Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis
Published in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2018, 105, 131-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11037
Escaping from Hunger before WW1: Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
published online in: Cliometrica, 25 November 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10862
Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: European Economic Review, 130, 2020, 103589.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820
Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10731
The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston, Ang Sun
forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economics of Ageing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10249
Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10038
Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction
Christian Grund, Maike Rubin
published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468
Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.
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. 9189
When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik, Katsunori Yamada
published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9064
Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Dean Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8574
Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018,16 (4), 1137–1188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392
Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?
John Jerrim, John Micklewright
revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, doi: 10.1093/esr/jcu072
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8333
Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Nadia Campaniello, Theodoros Diasakos, Giovanni Mastrobuoni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7850
Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7818
Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo, Vito Peragine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7666
Money for Nothing? Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland and their Remitting Behaviors
Pawel Kaczmarczyk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7583
Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Mark L. Bryan, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7256
Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
Abel Brodeur, Sarah Flèche
published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7097
Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
Christian Grund, Johannes Martin
revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy 64 (2017), 70-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6500
Comparing Real Wage Rates
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6419
Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
Santiago Budría, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6175
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Claudia Senik
published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5903
Internal Migration in the United States
Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail Wozniak
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 173-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5649
Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Andrea Ichino, Elly-Ann Lindström, Eliana Viviano
published in Economic Letters, Volume 123, Issue 3, June 2014, Pages 274–278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5609
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5609
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.
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. 5142
Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis
Randall K. Q. Akee, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Melanie Khamis
published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing: 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5115
Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
Maarten van Ham, Lee Williamson, Peteke Feijten, Paul Boyle
published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4615
Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599
You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4581
The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(2), 243–266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4414
Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4390
Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4367
International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, Adam H. Gailey
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4010
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Bert van Landeghem
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4003
Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration
Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo, Markus Jäntti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3813
Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods
Andrew E. Clark, Nicolai Kristensen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 519–527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3639
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3639
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3476
Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Andrew E. Clark, Nathalie Colombier, David Masclet
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3195
Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
Claudia Senik
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 408-424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2755
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence
Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey
published in: Kenneth C. Land (ed.). Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research, New York and London: Springer, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2717
Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F441-F459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 814
Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Geert Ridder, Gerard J. van den Berg
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1 (1), 224-244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 203
The Tail of Two Countries: Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States
John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, David N. Margolis, Thomas Philippon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 109
Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 102 (2), 271-309
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