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152 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17816
The Well-Being Costs of Immigration in Europe
Kelsey J. O'Connor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17514
Is Subjective Well-Being Insured Against Income Shocks? Evidence from 20-Year Panel Data in South Korea
Jiyeon Ahn, Taehyun Ahn, Seonghoon Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published online in: Health Economics, 29 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17101
The Importance of Sampling Frequency for Estimates of Well-Being Dynamics
Stephen Hoskins, David W. Johnston, Johannes S. Kunz, Michael A. Shields, Kevin E. Staub
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111880
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16905
Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction
Daniele Marchesi, Milena Nikolova, Viola Angelini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16680
Healthcare Workers and Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic
Chiara Costi, Andrew E. Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Conchita D'Ambrosio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16534
Are Senior Entrepreneurs Happier than Who? The Role of Income and Health
Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16454
More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed
Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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. 16155
Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16142
Donations and Unpaid Activities
Olaf Hübler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16090
Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?
Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 51 (1), 1-34.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15904
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15715
Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur, Carsten Schröder
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15653
Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19
Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder, Conchita D'Ambrosio
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101952
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15360
Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
Yannis Georgellis, Andrew E. Clark, Emmanuel Apergis, Catherine Robinson
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 509-527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15244
Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Hai-Anh H Dang, Kseniya Abanokova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15182
People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction
Grace Lordan, Eliza-Jane Stringer
published in: Economics & Human Biology 2022, 46, 101144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15140
Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners
Joachim Merz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15022
Earmarked Paternity Leave and Well-Being
Pontus Korsgren, Max van Lent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870
Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany
Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14797
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Well-Being, and Transitions to Post-secondary Education
Malte Sandner, Alexander Patzina, Silke Anger, Sarah Bernhard, Hans Dietrich
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 461 - 483
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14749
The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Enrico Bertacchini, Valentina Bolognesi, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14712
Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
Richard A. Easterlin
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14638
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
revised version published as 'Does Worker Well-Being Adapt to a Pandemic? An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (3), 840 - 861
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14429
Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 103: 105548.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14352
Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
Patrick A. Puhani, Margret K. Sterrenberg
revised version published as 'Effects of Mandatory Military and Alternative Community Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic outcomes' in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (3), 488 - 507
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
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. 14117
Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz
published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021
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
published as 'Life Satisfaction Changes And Adaptation In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Singapore' in: Singapore Economic Review, 2024, 69 (1), 1-34.
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
published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888
Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071
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
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
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
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045
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
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