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December 19, 2024

In Memoriam: Richard A. Easterlin

Honoring an IZA Prize Laureate and groundbreaking pioneer in the economics of happiness

  • happiness
  • Richard A. Easterlin
IZA News

September 21, 2022

Four IZA network members among the Citation Laureates for 2022

Pioneering contributions to happiness economics and political economy

  • citation record
  • happiness
  • political economy
  • prize
  • well-being
Research

August 19, 2020

Does the dream of home ownership rest upon biased beliefs?

New study finds that prospective home owners overestimate the well-being consequences of home ownership

  • behavior
  • beliefs
  • bias
  • happiness
  • home ownership
  • life satisfaction
  • Alois Stutzer
  • Reto Odermatt
OpinionResearch

July 18, 2019

The Newest Revolution? Happiness!

Richard Easterlin on the marked improvement in people's feelings of well-being

  • happiness
  • life satisfaction
  • social science
  • social security
  • subjective well-being
  • David Easterlin
Research

January 17, 2019

Telework increases employees’ stress levels

Well-being effects differ between working from home and bringing work home from the office

  • happiness
  • home office
  • stress
  • subjective well-being
  • telework
  • work-life balance
  • Jia Gao
  • Younghwan Song
Research

February 1, 2017

Three mechanisms to boost firm productivity

Monetary incentives are not always the most cost-effective way to make employees more productive. Three recent IZA World of Labor […]

  • emotions
  • employee ownership
  • firm performance
  • firm productivity
  • happiness
  • IZA World of Labor
  • peer effects
  • productivity
  • spillover effects
  • Douglas Kruse
  • Eugenio Proto
  • Thomas Cornelissen
Research

December 9, 2015

Life satisfaction gap between transition countries and the West is closing

Trends of globalization such as migration, economic integration and digital communication are undoubtedly bringing people closer together. But do they […]

  • central and eastern europe
  • globalization
  • happiness
  • life satisfaction
  • satisfaction gap
  • transition
  • transition economics
  • Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
  • Milena Nikolova
  • Richard A. Easterlin
  • Sergei Guriev
Research

October 28, 2015

Implications of human dignity for international development theory and practice

In her contribution to the second international Human Dignity and Human Development Conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s […]

  • Development
  • dignity
  • happiness
  • well-being
  • Milena Nikolova
Research

August 14, 2015

Measuring historical happiness through digitized books

What are the historical drivers of happiness? To answer this question, a research team from the University of Warwick built […]

  • affective forecasting
  • digitized books
  • happiness
  • history
  • sentiment analysis
  • subjective well-being
  • valence norms
  • war
  • Daniel Sgroi
  • Eugenio Proto
  • Margaret M. Bradley
  • Peter J. Lang
  • Thomas Hills
Research

June 11, 2015

Why labor market policies should be guided by happiness

Happiness should be a guiding factor in the governance of labor markets, argues Jo Ritzen in his most recent IZA […]

  • employment
  • employment protection
  • happiness
  • labor market policy
  • permanent contracts
  • temporary contracts
  • unemployment
  • well-being
  • Artjom Ivlevs
  • Carol Graham
  • Jo Ritzen
  • Rainer Winkelmann
Research

January 16, 2015

How health status affects individual time use

Economics is the science on scarce resources. And what is more scarce than time in modern societies? A recent literature […]

  • allocation
  • Europe
  • happiness
  • health
  • leisure
  • subjective well-being
  • time
  • time use
  • work
  • J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
  • José Alberto Molina
Research

December 16, 2014

Should you come out in the workplace and would your employer care?

According to a report by Nick Drydakis published by IZA World of Labor today, half of gay and lesbian employees […]

  • discrimination
  • gay
  • happiness
  • harassment
  • IZA World of Labor
  • lesbian
  • satisfaction
  • sexual orientation
  • UK
  • well-being
  • workplace
  • Nick Drydakis
Research

October 23, 2014

Can migration boost incomes, happiness and freedom satisfaction?

By Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova The recent economic crisis and the subsequent lagging economic recovery renewed the immigration debate […]

  • freedom satisfaction
  • happiness
  • incomes
  • international borders
  • life quality
  • life satisfaction
  • migration
  • productivity
  • public health
  • well-being
  • Carol Graham
  • Milena Nikolova
Research

October 10, 2014

Why aging and working makes us happy – in four charts

By Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova In the past few years, economists and other social scientists have made great strides […]

  • age
  • employment status
  • happiness
  • health
  • income
  • late-life-work
  • long-term unemployment
  • married
  • partnership
  • socio-demographic factors
  • under-employment
  • well-being
  • Carol Graham
  • Milena Nikolova
Research

November 13, 2013

What predicts a successful life?

How much of adult well-being is determined by childhood influences? The answer to this question is very important to policy-makers […]

  • children
  • educational policy
  • family policy
  • happiness
  • income
  • life satisfaction
  • well-being
  • Andrew E. Clark
  • Francesca Cornaglia
  • James Vernoit
  • Nattavudh Powdthavee
  • Richard Layard
Research

September 27, 2013

Unmet expectations: Why we are unhappy during midlife

Human beings are happy when they are in the mid-20s and when they are hitting the 60s, but they experience […]

  • ageing
  • expectations
  • export
  • happiness
  • life satisfaction
  • wellbeing
  • Hannes Schwandt
Research

August 22, 2013

Men like child care at least as much as women do

In March of 2012, The New York Times (NYT) website ran the headline, “Do Women Like Child Care More than […]

  • child care
  • familiy economics
  • gender differences
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • happiness
  • home production
  • time use
  • Jean Kimmel
  • Rachel Connelly
Research

February 20, 2013

Smoking bans make (some) smokers happy

A recent IZA Discussion Paper by Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer shows that smoking bans increase the happiness of smokers […]

  • cigarette prices
  • happiness
  • subjetive well-being
  • Alois Stutzer
  • Reto Odermatt

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