Alpaslan Akay

Research Fellow

University of Gothenburg

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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. 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. 6631
Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Alpaslan Akay, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann
revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (3), 517-546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6630
The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 103, 72–92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6342
Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 78, 98-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6172
The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (27), 3914-3921
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6163
The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Alpaslan Akay, Melanie Khamis
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 229 - 255
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5480
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4655
Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
Alpaslan Akay
substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4563
Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
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