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Alpaslan Akay
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Alpaslan Akay currently holds an Associate Professors position in the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg where he has employed since 2013.
Alpaslan completed his Ph.D. at University Gothenburg in 2008. Prior to his Ph.D at the University of Gothenburg, he also had another Ph.D position in the Istanbul University for three years. Alpaslan had his undergraduate (on Economics) and Master (on Mathematical Statistics) studies at Istanbul University. His Ph.D is on the immigrant assimilation and applied microeconometrics. His research interests are very diverse and lie in several areas including the behavioral and experimental economics, economics of happiness, economics of migration and applied microeconomics. In recent years, he has focused particularly on happiness research and positional concerns. He is also interested in pedagogy and aiming to apply alternative teaching styles and pedagogical strategies. He has also collaborated actively with other researchers in several other disciplines of economics.
Alpaslan has served and participated in several workshops and conferences both as participant and organizer. He has organized several large scale conferences and served also as a scientific committee member. He is currently serving as a referee of high ranked scientific journals.
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Relative income concerns and smoking behaviour: The role of unobserved
heterogeneity
Alpaslan Akay, Asena Caner
PLOS ONE - 2024 -
Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure
preferences
Alpaslan Akay, O. B. Bargain, H. X. Jara
Scandinavian Journal of Economics - 2023 -
Non-cognitive skills and labour market performance of
immigrants
Alpaslan Akay, L. Yilmaz
Plos One - 2023 -
The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19
pandemic
Alpaslan Akay
Economics and Human Biology - 2022 -
Offshoring and well-being of
workers
Alpaslan Akay, S. Savsin
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - 2022 -
LIFE SATISFACTION, PRO-ACTIVITY AND
EMPLOYMENT
Alpaslan Akay, G. Karabulut, L. Yilmaz
Singapore Economic Review - 2021 -
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary
Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, Murat G. Kirdar
European Economic Review - 2021 -
Personality and positionality-evidence from survey experiments with alternative
goods
Alpaslan Akay, G. Karabulut
Eurasian Business Review - 2020 -
'Fair' welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes: subjective versus revealed
preferences
Alpaslan Akay, O. Bargain, H. X. Jara
Social Choice and Welfare - 2020 -
Global terror, well-being and political
attitudes
Alpaslan Akay, O. Bargain, A. Elsayed
European Economic Review - 2020 -
Relative concerns and sleep
behavior
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Hilda Ralsmark
Economics and Human Biology - 2019 -
Positional concerns through the
life-cycle
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics - 2019 -
Standing in Others' Shoes: Empathy and Positional
Behavior
Alpaslan Akay, G. Karabulut, B. Terzioglu
Frontiers in Psychology - 2019 -
Standing in Others’ Shoes: Empathy and Positional
Behavior
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Bilge Terzioğlu
2019 -
Personality and
Positionality
Alpaslan Akay
2019 -
Everybody’s a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political
Attitudes
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed
2018 -
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of
Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, O. Bargain, K. F. Zimmermann
Journal of Human Resources - 2017 -
Ethnic diversity and
well-being
Alpaslan Akay, A. Constant, C. Giulietti, M. Guzi
Journal of Population Economics - 2017 -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed
Preferences
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, H. Xavier Jara
2017 -
I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep
Behavior
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Hilda Ralsmark
2017 -
Remittances and relative concerns in rural
China
Alpaslan Akay, O. B. Bargain, C. Giulietti, J. D. Robalino, K. F. Zimmermann
China Economic Review - 2016 -
Dynamics of employment
assimilation
Alpaslan Akay
IZA Journal of Migration - 2016 -
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural
China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan D. Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann
2015 -
Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious
festival
Alpaslan Akay, G. Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
Economics Letters - 2015 -
Back To Bentham: Should We? Large‐Scale Comparison of Decision versus Experienced Utility for Income‐Leisure
Preferences
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, H. Xavier Jara
2015 -
Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey
Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
2014 -
Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey
Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
Journal of African Economies - 2014 -
Remittances and well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in
China
Alpaslan Akay, C. Giulietti, J.D. Robalino, K.F. Zimmermann
Review of Economics of the Household - 2014 -
The impact of immigration on the well-being of
natives
Alpaslan Akay, A. Constant, C. Giulietti
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - 2014 -
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of
Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
2014 -
Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in
China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization - 2012 -
Positional concerns through the life cycle: Evidence from subjective well-being data and survey
experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
IZA Discussion Papers - 2012 -
Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? - Evidence from a survey experiment in rural
Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
World Development - 2012 -
Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: An experiment in rural
Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, S. Trautmann
Theory and Decision - 2012 -
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods
Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
2011 -
The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of
Ramadan
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
2011 -
The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce
Outages
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Alpaslan Akay
Energy Economics - 2011 -
Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural
Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
Economics Letters - 2011 -
Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural
Ethiopia
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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? - Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural
Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin
IZA Discussion Paper - 2009 -
Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: Evidence from rural
Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, Stefan Trautmann
IZA Discussion Paper - 2009 -
Do experience and cheap talk influence willingness to pay in an open-ended contingent valuation
survey?,
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Alpaslan Akay
IZA Discussion Paper - 2009 -
Sundays are blue: Aren't they? The day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic
status.
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
IZA Discussion Paper - 2009 -
Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sample selection
models
Alpaslan Akay, Elias Tsakas
Applied Economics - 2008 -
Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural
Ethiopia
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Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant
Assimilation
Alpaslan Akay
2008 -
Dynamics of Employment- and Earnings-Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden,
1990-2000
Alpaslan Akay
2007 -
Monte Carlo Investigation of the Initial Values Problem in Censored Dynamic Random-Effects Panel Data
Model
Alpaslan Akay
2007 -
Local Unemployment and the Earnings-Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Sweden: Evidence from Longitudinal Data,
1990-2000
Alpaslan Akay, Kerem Tezic
2007 -
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step
Procedure
Alpaslan Akay, Elias Tsakas
2006 -
Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from
Sweden
Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut, Kerem Tezic
2006