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149 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14712
Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
Richard A. Easterlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14638
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
revised version forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14429
Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 103: 105548.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14352
Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
Patrick A. Puhani, Margret K. Sterrenberg
revised version published as 'Effects of Mandatory Military and Alternative Community Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic outcomes' in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (3), 488 - 507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14343
Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Michal Myck, Monika Oczkowska
published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14258
Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music
Emmanouil Benetos, Alessandro Ragano, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell
published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14117
Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13997
Moms' Time - Married or Not
Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: Jose Alberto Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer Publishers, 2022, 1-27.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13923
The Easterlin Paradox
Richard A. Easterlin, Kelsey J. O'Connor
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13905
How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?
Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13702
The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore
Terence Chai Cheng, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh
published as 'Life Satisfaction Changes And Adaptation In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Singapore' in: Singapore Economic Review, 2024, 69 (1), 1-34.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13510
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13166
Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13057
Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12961
Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency
Pablo de Pedraza, Martin Guzi, Kea Tijdens
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 42 (3), 341-355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888
Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12811
Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (3), 547- 563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12810
Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2020, 54 (3), 211-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12720
A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard
published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165
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