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147 IZA Discussion Papers
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3624
Happiness Inequality in the United States
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79
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. 3170
Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2925
Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Alois Stutzer
published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2618
Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (314), 284-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2584
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa
published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2568
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
Bernard M. S. van Praag
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2533
Beautiful Serbia
Holger Bonin, Ulf Rinne
revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2508
Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze, Gerhard Krug, Bodo Herzog
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 571-586
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2494
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Richard A. Easterlin, Anke Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2083
Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States
Claudia Senik
published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (299), 495-513
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019
The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1952
What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1811
Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 326-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1716
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peder J. Pedersen
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008, 9 (2), 317-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1351
Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 81(3), 497-519
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