Alpaslan Akay

Research Fellow

University of Gothenburg

alpaslan.akay@gu.se

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Alpaslan Akay is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) where he also completed his Ph.D. in March 2008. His main research interests are Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Economics of Happiness, Migration, Microeconometrics and Monte Carlo Simulations.

He joined IZA as a Research Associate in September 2008 and became a Senior Research Associate in September 2011. After moving back to Sweden in September 2013, he remains affiliated with IZA as a Research Fellow. He is currently visiting IZA regularly as a Visiting Research Fellow.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14117

Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11679

Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597

Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed

published as 'Global terror, well-being and political attitudes' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, Article 103394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10908

'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara

published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907

Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara

published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9726

Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being

Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 265-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9163

Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8215

Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin

revised version published in: Journal of African Economics, 2014, 23(5), 673-699