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152 IZA Discussion Papers
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7033
Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19953-19958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7016
Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult
Maggie Switek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6944
Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(3), 909–933
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6804
Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Abel Brodeur, Marie Connolly
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6786
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
Christoph Wunder, Guido Heineck
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 244-252.
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6426
Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
Andrew E. Clark, Yannis Georgellis
published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (319), 496–512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6419
Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
Santiago Budría, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
published as 'Life Satisfaction, Income Comparisons and Individual Traits' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (2), 337 - 357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6101
Work to Live or Live to Work? Unemployment, Happiness, and Culture
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5869
Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey
Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5819
Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields
published as 'Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F688-F719
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5799
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Maggie Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa, Jacqueline Smith Zweig
published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5734
A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures
Diane J. Macunovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5705
Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5600
"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jason Abrevaya
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5453
Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
Sonja C. de New, Christoph M. Schmidt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5230
Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4850
Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
published in: Social Research, 2010, 77 (2), 679-714
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4705
Youth Unemployment: Déjà Vu?
David N.F. Bell, David G. Blanchflower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4485
Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men
Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4478
The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2010, 2, 139-160
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4450
Happiness and Health Care Coverage
David G. Blanchflower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4390
Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4200
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4155
Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer, Philipp Bleninger
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 154–167.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4053
Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany
Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2010, 97(3), 325-339
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4015
Life Satisfaction
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest
published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3940
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Danny Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3915
Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany
Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
published in: Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (1), 73-82
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. 3604
Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields
published as 'Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 190 - 211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3443
Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Lina Song, Simon Appleton
published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2325-2340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3385
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3354
International Evidence on Well-being
David G. Blanchflower
published in: Alan Krueger (ed.): Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2009, 155 - 226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2724
The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
Alan B. Krueger, David A. Schkade
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (8-9), 1833-1845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2529
The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink, Bernard M. S. van Praag
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 82 (2), 189-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2526
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Andrew E. Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis, Richard E. Lucas
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (529), F222–F243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2406
A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Andrew E. Clark
published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 291-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2218
Happiness and Loss Aversion: When Social Participation Dominates Comparison
Maarten C.M. Vendrik, Geert Woltjer
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1423-1448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1964
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1916
Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers
published in: Australian Economic Review, 2006, 39 (2), 176-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1788
Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?
Jonathan Gardner, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (2), 319-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1488
Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Paul Frijters, John de New, Michael A. Shields
revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1218
Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Mark Wooden
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2008, 87(1), 65-82.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1200
Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being – Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Johannes Schwarze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1032
The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
Bruce Headey, Mark Wooden
Published in: Economic Record, 2004, 80 (S1), S24-S33. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00181.x
IZA Discussion Paper No. 974
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233-249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 498
Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
Paul Frijters, John de New, Michael A. Shields
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009, 42 (4), 1326 - 1346
IZA Discussion Paper No. 430
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233 - 249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 419
The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction
Paul Frijters, John de New, Michael A. Shields
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (3), 649-674
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