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Effort and Comparison Income : Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

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Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan - 2016

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...

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Positional Concerns Through the Life Cycle : Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

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