Browsing Working papers by Author "Akay, Alpaslan"
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Back To Bentham: Should We? Large‐Scale Comparison of Decision versus Experienced Utility for Income‐Leisure Preferences
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier (2015-02)Subjective well‐being (SWB) is increasingly used as a way to measure individual well‐being. Interpreted as "experienced utility", it has been compared to "decision utility" using specific experiments (Kahneman et al., 1997) ... -
Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter (2010-10)We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on ... -
Dynamics of Employment- and Earnings-Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden, 1990-2000
Akay, Alpaslan (2007-12-05)The employment- and earnings-assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden was estimated using a dynamic random-e¤ects sample-selection model with eleven waves of unbalanced panel-data during 1990-2000. ... -
Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
Tezic, Kerem; Karabulut, Gokhan; Akay, Alpaslan (2006)This paper uses eleven waves of panel-data to analyse the earnings assimilation of first-generation Turkish immigrant men in Sweden. Employment-probabilities and earnings are estimated in a fixed-effects sample selection ... -
Everybody’s a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed (2018-06)Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier (2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2014-04)This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 ... -
I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep Behavior
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Ralsmark, Hilda (2017-10)We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial ... -
Local Unemployment and the Earnings-Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Sweden: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, 1990-2000
Akay, Alpaslan; Tezic, Kerem (2007-12-05)The earnings-assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden was analyzed using eleven waves of panel-data, 1990-2000. Employment-probabilities and earnings were estimated simultaneously in a random-effects model, ... -
Monte Carlo Investigation of the Initial Values Problem in Censored Dynamic Random-Effects Panel Data Model
Akay, Alpaslan (2007-12-05)Three designs of Monte Carlo experiments are used to investigate the initial-value problem in censored dynamic random-effects (Tobit type 1) models. We compared three widely used solution methods: naive method based on ... -
Personality and Positionality
Akay, Alpaslan (2019-03)This paper employs survey experiments to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and positional concerns across a wide range of “goods,” e.g., income and market value of a car, and “bads,” e.g., infant ... -
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Brausmann, Alexandra; Djajic, Slobodan; Kirdar, Murat G. (2018-08)How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving ... -
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan D.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2015-08)The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously ... -
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
Tsakas, Elias; Akay, Alpaslan (2006)In this paper we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the marginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by Heckman's two step procedure. We show that the bias ... -
Standing in Others’ Shoes: Empathy and Positional Behavior
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Terzioğlu, Bilge (2019-09)Studies show that people are concerned with other people’s consumption position in a varying degree with respect to the type of goods consumed and individual characteristics. Using both survey experiments and a large survey ... -
Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? -The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter (2009-11-13)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, ...