IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published online as 'Effects of Mandatory Military and Alternative Community Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic outcomes' in: Kyklos, 21 March 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343

Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska

published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14258

Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music

Emmanouil Benetos, Alessandro Ragano, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14117

Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997

Moms' Time - Married or Not

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Jose Alberto Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer Publishers, 2022, 1-27.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13923

The Easterlin Paradox

Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)

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. 13702

The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore

Terence Chai Cheng, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13166

Feeling Good or Feeling Better?

Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057

Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12961

Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

Pablo de Pedraza, Martin Guzi, Kea Tijdens

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 42 (3), 341-355 [Online]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888

Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12811

Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (3), 547- 563 (Open Access)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12810

Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being

Stephen P. Jenkins

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2020, 54 (3), 211-238 (Open Access)

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. 12719

Relative Deprivation in Tanzania

Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12695

Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction

Nick Drydakis

published in: K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, New York: Springer, First Online: 04 March 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12636

The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-being

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31(1), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12622

Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Alois Stutzer

published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4 (2), 210-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12547

Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Renuka Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177: 104043

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12430

The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data

Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 107-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336

Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12313

The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

longer version forthcoming in: D.Maddison, K. Rehdanz, H. Welsch (eds.): Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12206

The Impact of Bullying Victimisation on Mental Wellbeing

Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11994

Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries

Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11922

Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults

Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11879

Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh

published as 'Health insurance and subjective well-being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (1), 233-249

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11819

Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11818

Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication

Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11404

The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion

Martin Leites, Xavier Ramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11226

Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks

Bénédicte Apouey, Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2019, 33, 116-123.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11206

Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke C. Plagnol, Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark

published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 471-494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11185

Education, Income and Happiness: Panel Evidence for the UK

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11181

The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users

Julie Moschion, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 206-221

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. 10452

The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Amanda Cabacungan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10382

My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households

Anthony Lepinteur, Sarah Flèche, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10087

Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Journal of Travel Research, 2017, 56 (5), 599-612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10058

Towards a Theory of Life Satisfaction Accounting for Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-Year Life Trajectories in Germany

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9840

Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress

Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Andreas Peichl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9676

Paradox Lost?

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9609

The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9513

Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales

Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis

Published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50(1), 175-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9450

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?

Marc Fleurbaey, Hannes Schwandt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9401

National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings

Gus O'Donnell, Andrew J. Oswald

forthcoming in: Ecological Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9312

Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Xi Chen

pubished as 'Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 85, 81 - 94 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.04.001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9282

Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9252

(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (1), 245–283

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9114

Do Employment Protection Reforms Affect Well-Being?

Vanessa Dräger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9055

Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence

Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk

published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9017

Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8837

Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 17-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8665

Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8589

Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann

revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8530

Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8435

Happiness and Work

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

published in: James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 10, Elsevier, Oxord, 515-520

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8238

Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8194

Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders

Rachel Connelly, Michael Iannotti, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Dandan Zhang

published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 70 - 88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8136

Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8127

What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Mark Wooden

substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.012)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7877

Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood

Maggie Switek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7654

The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7604

Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing

Hannes Schwandt

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 2016, Vol. 122: 75-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7368

The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe

William Betz, Nicole B. Simpson

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:12.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7345

Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7328

How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review

Beatriz Fabiola López Ulloa, Valerie Moller, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (3), 227-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7309

Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7234

Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy

Richard A. Easterlin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7196

China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010

Richard A. Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Maggie Switek, Fei Wang

published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7187

Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin

published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7177

Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 176-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7105

The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers

published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7078

Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview

Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey

published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, ix-xxiii