IZA Workshop: Sources of Welfare and Well-Being

Wednesday, October 19:

19:00				Informal Dinner at Restaurant "Dreesen Gasthaus im Stiefel", Bonngasse 30, Bonn

Thursday, October 20:

08:45	-	09:15		Registration
09:15	-	09:30		Welcome Address by Andrew J. Oswald (Acting Director of Research, IZA)
				Session A: Trends and Life-Cycle
				Chair: Andrew J. Oswald (IZA)
09:40	-	09:50		Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University), Eric Bonsang (ROA, Maastricht University, Netspar)
				"Satisfaction with Life and Its Domains among Older Individuals across European Countries"
09:50	-	10:00		Eugenio Proto (University of Warwick), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
				"The Hump-Shaped Relation between Income and Life Satisfaction"
10:00	-	10:30		Discussion
10:30	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Keynote I
				Chair: David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)
11:30	-	12:30		Andrew Steptoe (University College London)
				"Well-being and Health: An Epidemiological Perspective"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session B: Experiments
				Chair: Andreas Peichl (IZA)
14:00	-	14:10		David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)
				"Evaluating the Pulse of the Nation"
14:10	-	14:20		Emilia Simeonova (Tufts University), Randall Akee (Tufts University and IZA), William Copeland (Duke University), Adrian Angold (Duke University), E. Jane Costello (Duke University)
				"Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Children’s and Young Adult Well-being"
14:20	-	14:30		Richard Dorsett (National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)), Andrew J. Oswald (IZA)
				"Well-being and In-Work Benefits -- A Field Experiment"
14:30	-	15:00		Discussion
15:00	-	16:00		Coffee Break
				Session C: Income
				Chair: David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)
16:00	-	16:10		Simon Jäger (Harvard University), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"Stock Market Returns and Well-Being"
16:10	-	16:20		Thomas Deckers (University of Bonn), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch (University of Bonn)
				"Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Life Satisfaction"
16:20	-	16:40		Discussion
18:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Strandhaus", Georgstr. 28, Bonn

Friday, October 21:

				Session D: Unhappiness
				Chair: David G. Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)
09:30	-	09:40		Anne C. Gielen (IZA), Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University and IZA)
				"Unhappiness and Job Finding"
09:40	-	09:50		Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics)
				"Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness"
09:50	-	10:00		Olga Popova (CERGE-EI), Vladimir Otrachshenko (Nova School of Business and Economics)
				"Life (Dis)satisfaction and Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe"
10:00	-	10:30		Discussion
10:30	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Keynote II
				Chair: Andreas Peichl (IZA)
11:30	-	12:30		Erik Schokkaert (K.U. Leuven)
				"Fairness and Happiness: How to Respect Individual Preferences?"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session E: Measurement
				Chair: Andreas Peichl (IZA)
14:00	-	14:10		Olivier Bargain (University of Aix-Marseille II), Alpaslan Akay (IZA)
				"What's Mine is Yours? Estimating Collective Models using Traditional versus Subjective Data"
14:10	-	14:20		Ori Heffetz (Cornell University), Daniel Benjamin (Cornell University), Miles Kimball (University of Michigan), Nichole Szembrot (Cornell University)
				"Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Developing a National Well-Being Index Based on Stated Preference"
14:20	-	14:30		Lex Borghans (Maastricht University), Maarten Vendrik (Maastricht University and IZA)
				"Heterogeneous Preferences, Female Labor Participation and Life Satisfaction"
14:30	-	15:00		Discussion
15:00	-	16:00		Coffee Break
				Session F: Welfare
				Chair: Andrew J. Oswald (IZA)
16:00	-	16:10		Dirk Neumann (University of Cologne), Olivier Bargain (University of Aix-Marseille II and IZA), André Decoster (K.U. Leuven), Mathias Dolls (IZA and University of Cologne), Andreas Peichl (IZA), Sebastian Siegloch (IZA)
				"Welfare, Labour Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US"
16:10	-	16:20		Koen Decancq (University of Antwerp), Francois Maniquet (CORE), Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
				"Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Should We Take Preferences Into Account?"
16:20	-	16:40		Discussion