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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and … compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk … students, but peasants were more risk averse. Testing for the effect of socio-economic variables on uncertainty attitudes …

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Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...

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Positional concerns through the life cycle: Evidence from subjective well-being data and survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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Remittances and well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan David; … - 2012

The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective...

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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...

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Happy taxpayers? Income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Sundays are blue: aren't they? ; the day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic status

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2009

This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...

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