IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7210

Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Johann Scharler

revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 292 - 323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7204

UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Milena Buechs, Sylke V. Schnepf

revised version published as 'Who emits most? An analysis of UK households' CO2 emissions and their association with socio-economic factors' in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 90, 114-123

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. 7162

Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati

published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2013, 2(1), 1-29.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7158

Gender Differences in German Wage Mobility

Bodo Aretz

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. 7014

Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Tony Atkinson, Peter G. Backus, John Micklewright

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7006

Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes

Prashant Bharadwaj, Julian V. Johnsen, Katrine Vellesen Loken

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 72-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6994

New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan, Thomas J. Kniesner

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6967

Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program

Claudio Lucifora, Marco Tonello

published as: "Cheating and social interactions. Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 2015, 45–66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6955

Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries de Grip, Thomas Dohmen

published as 'The Impact of Negatively Reciprocal Inclinations on Worker Behavior: Evidence from a Retrenchment of Pension Rights' in: Management Science, 2016, 62(3), 668-681

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. 6942

Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6925

Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption

Laszlo Goerke

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169