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. 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 Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441