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124 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6342
Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
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. 6174
Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency: The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Ioannis Theodossiou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6140
Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
Beata Nowok, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, Vernon Gayle
published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2013, 45 (4), 986-1002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5906
The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health
Alexander M. Danzer, Natalia Danzer
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 135, 47-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5799
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Malgorzata Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa, Jacqueline Smith Zweig
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5716
Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888
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. 5536
Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
Eric Bonsang, Tobias J. Klein
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 311-329
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5230
Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5184
Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
Bernard M. S. van Praag, Dmitri Romanov, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (6), 1008-1020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4727
Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research
Bernard M. S. van Praag
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 111-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4563
Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
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. 4478
The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2010, 2, 139-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4200
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4155
Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer, Philipp Bleninger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3812
Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3720
Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty
Johannes Schwarze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3654
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 1-87
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