IZA Discussion Papers

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

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 516–536

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