IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17942

The Value of a Park in Crises: Quantifying the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Green Spaces Using Exogenous Variations in Use Values

Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Katrin Rehdanz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17847

Playing an Amateur Sport in a Professional Context: Good for Gaelic Players Mental Health?

Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness, Eoin Kenny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490

The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (4), 791-812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16622

Life-Cycle Effects of Comprehensive Sex Education

Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert

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. 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. 16309

Mental Health in European Economics Departments

Elisa Macchi, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy, Paul Barreira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15790

Wellbeing Rankings

David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2024, 171, 513–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15554

Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?

Getinet Astatike Haile

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15389

Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Carsten Andersen, Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer

published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift/ Danish Economic Journal, 2022, 2022 (1), Article 3

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. 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. 14754

Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers

Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut, Courtney Van Houtven

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14722

Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations

Lucía Macchia, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 287, 114332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14706

Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Colin P. Green

published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14570

The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan

published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 547 - 568

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14509

Capitalism Recoupled

Colm Kelly, Dennis J. Snower

pubished in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (4), 851 - 863

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14447

A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

Christian Krekel, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Richard Layard

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 322-336

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. 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. 14239

Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko

published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 16 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14220

Resilience to Disaster: Evidence from Daily Wellbeing Data

Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Benno Torgler

published in: Global Environmental Change, 2023, 79, 102639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13959

Quantifying the Externalities of Renewable Energy Plants Using Wellbeing Data: The Case of Biogas

Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode, Alexander Zerrahn

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. 13884

Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Self-Reported and Bank-Record Data

Carole Comerton-Forde, John de New, Nicolás Salamanca, David C. Ribar, Andrea Nicastro, James Ross

published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (321), 133-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13879

How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?

Aparna Soni, Erdal Tekin

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023

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. 13587

Stung by Pension Reforms: The Impact of a Change in State Pension Age on Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Affected Women

Marina Della Giusta, Simonetta Longhi

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102049

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13527

Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Matloob Piracha, Ben Zhe Wang

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 26, 1-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13503

COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK

Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13463

Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants

Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque

revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 261-287

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13403

Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis

Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam

published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 511–535

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13021

Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?

Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel, Aydogan Ulker

published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12720

A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard

published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12589

Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment

Lajos Kossuth, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Donna Harris, Nick Chater

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 35-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519

Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962

The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015

Louise Grogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11961

Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension

Louise Grogan, Fraser Summerfield

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11273

How Does Terrorism Affect Individuals' Wellbeing?

Alex Bryson, George MacKerron

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112

Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018

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. 10486

Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen, Mari Kangasniemi

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (1), 31-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10412

Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing

Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts, Karl Taylor

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10210

If Life Throws You Lemons, Try To Make Lemonade: Does Locus of Control Help People Cope with Unexpected Shocks?

Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9840