Santa Clara University

Research : John Ifcher

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Work in Progress

"Buying the Benefits of Marriage: Marriage, Income, and Happiness in the United States" (with Chris Herbst, Arizona State University, and Homa Zarghamee, Santa Clara University)

"Competing on Chance: Gender and Competition in Games without Agency." (With Homa Zarghamee, Barnard College)

"The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health and Hapiness" (with Chris Herbst, Arizona State University, and Homa Zarghamee, Santa Clara University)

Papers

"A Bundle of Joy: Does Parenting Really Make Us Miserable? " (with Chris M. Herbst, Arizona State Univeristy) (Under Review)

"Negative Affect and Overconfidence: A Laboratory Investigation." (with Homa Zarghamee, Santa Clara University) (Under Review)

"Positive Affect and Overconfidence: A Laboratory Investigation." (with Homa Zarghamee, Santa Clara University) (Under Review)

"Subjective-Well-Being, Inequality and Per Capita Income: Evidence from the World Values"  (with Homa Zarghamee, Barnard College) (Under Review)

"Trends in the Happiness of Single Mothers: Evidence from the General Social Survey." (with Homa Zarghamee, Santa Clara University) (revise and resubmit)

Ifcher, John, and Homa Zarghamee. 2011. "Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment." The American Economic Review 101(7): 3109-3129.

Ifcher, John. 2011. "The Happiness of Single Mothers after Welfare Reform." The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 11(1) (Topics), Article 60.

Ifcher, John. 2010. "Identify the Effect of a Welfare-to-Work Program Using Capacity Constraint: a New York City Quasi-Experiment." Eastern Economic Journal 36: 299-316.

Ifcher, John. 2010. "The Effect of Two Welfare-To-Work Programs on General Assistance Recipients:Evidence from New York City."  Poverty and Public Policy 2(3): Article 9.

Ifcher, John. "The Effect of a Welfare-to-Work Program on Homeless Shelter Use in New York City: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment" (presented, WEAI Conference, June 2008)