Alpaslan Akay

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University of Gothenburg

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Alpaslan Akay is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) where he also completed his Ph.D. in March 2008. His main research interests are Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Economics of Happiness, Migration, Microeconometrics and Monte Carlo Simulations.

He joined IZA as a Research Associate in September 2008 and became a Senior Research Associate in September 2011. After moving back to Sweden in September 2013, he remains affiliated with IZA as a Research Fellow. He is currently visiting IZA regularly as a Visiting Research Fellow.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 11679
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, Murat G. Kirdar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597
Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10908
'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907
Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9726
Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being
Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1), 265-306. Article
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9163
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: China Economic Review, 2016 (37) 191–207. Pre-publication version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8215
Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
revised version published in: Journal of African Economics, 2014, 23(5), 673-699
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7862
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published online before print in: Journal of Human Resources, March 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6999
Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6732
Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe
Susana Ferreira, Alpaslan Akay, Finbarr Brereton, Juncal Cuñado, Peter Martinsson, Mirko Moro
published in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 88, 1-10
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