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272 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3812
Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3720
Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty
Johannes Schwarze
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. 3624
Happiness Inequality in the United States
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3623
Preparing for Policy Changes: Social Security Expectations and Pension Scheme Participation
Karen van der Wiel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3484
The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005
Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik
published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3425
Econometric Causality
James J. Heckman
published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, (76) 1, 1-27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3195
Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
Claudia Senik
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 408-424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3170
Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3121
Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game
Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette, Sabine Kröger
published separately as ‘Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions ‘in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (1), 125 - 131 and as ‘Bounding Preference Parameters under Different Assumptions about Beliefs: a Partial Identification Approach’ in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 334 - 345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3059
Where Are the Real Bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries about the Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Wendy Carlin, Mark E Schaffer, Paul Seabright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3022
Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool
Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger, Arthur van Soest
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2994
Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 35-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2925
Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Alois Stutzer
published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2820
Subjective Beliefs and Schooling Decisions
Christian Belzil
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2637
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Simon Commander, Jan Svejnar
revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2618
Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (314), 284-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2584
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
Richard A. Easterlin, Onnicha Sawangfa
published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2568
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
Bernard M. S. van Praag
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2533
Beautiful Serbia
Holger Bonin, Ulf Rinne
revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67
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