Alpaslan Akay

Biographic Data

ID159154
NAMEAlpaslan Akay
GIVEN NAMESAlpaslan
FAMILY NAMEAkay
SIGNATUREAKAY A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Gothenburg
ORCID0000-0001-7215-9676
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Stick and Stay, Make it Pay? Time Preferences and Marginal (Dis)Utility of Relative Concerns

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Nur Banu KartalARTICLESocial Indicators Research2026

    Individuals’ preferences for immediate gratification versus their ability to postpone it, i.e., time preferences, might be related to their marginal utility or disutility stemming from an increase in the income of comparable others, i.e., relative concerns. We argue that while an increase in others’ income might lead to a higher level of marginal disutility for those seeking immediate gratification, the disutility among patient individuals might …

  • Measuring Environmental Awareness and Sensitivity of University Students

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Ali AkçaovaARTICLESAGE Open2025

    Considering the growing environmental challenges faced today, the need to raise awareness among younger generations about environmental issues is increasingly emphasized. As future leaders, university students are expected to cultivate a sensitivity to these concerns, making education during their academic years pivotal. This study aims to assess the levels of environmental awareness and sensitivity among students enrolled in a faculty of archite…

  • Status” concerns and self-employment transitions

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Levent YilmazARTICLESmall Business Economics2025

    This paper investigates whether individuals’ relative (status or positional) concerns are associated with their transitions from paid employment or inactivity to self-employment. The conjecture is that stress and anxiety arising from socio-economic comparisons may be motivating factors for individuals to establish their own businesses. We examine this using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, a long panel spanning three decades. Employing fi…

  • The local and global mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAlpaslan AkayARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2022

    This paper investigates the mental health effects of the local and global level Covid-19 pandemic among the UK population. To identify the effect, we use a high-quality dataset and an original strategy where we match the previous day's confirmed pandemic cases to a four-month panel of individual mental health information observed during the interview next day. The approach suggested in this paper aims to identify the average mental health effect …

  • An acoustical landscaping study

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Serpil ÖnderARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2022

  • ‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain et al.ARTICLESocial Choice and Welfare2020

  • Relative concerns and sleep behavior

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2018

  • Home Sweet Home

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Human Resources2016

    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 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identi cation of the effect and panel data to con- trol for migrants observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evi…

  • Ethnic diversity and well-being

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Amelie Constant et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2016Cited by: 9References: 12

  • Dynamics of employment assimilation

    Open AccessAlpaslan AkayARTICLEIZA Journal of Migration2016Cited by: 2References: 32

    This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants' employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possibilities differs between immigrants and natives, then the static assimilation model might produce biased and unrealistic predictions of the relative employment probabilities of immigrants. Using a high-quality panel dataset collected in Swede…

  • Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015

  • Remittances and relative concerns in rural China

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain et al.ARTICLEChina Economic Review2015

  • Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe

    Open AccessSusana Ferreira, Alpaslan Akay et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2013

  • Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Behavior &…2012

  • Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessAlpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2011Cited by: 7References: 10