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The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals’ effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...
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The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419100
The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250257
stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040579
, we analyze the individual's risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing rank, rather than the individual's risk …-ranked individual is more willing than a low-ranked individual to take risks that can provide him with a rise in rank: relative risk …
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Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion … leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and documented by social psychologists and … individual's relative risk aversion decreases when he becomes more relatively deprived as a result of an increase in the average …
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Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion … leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and documented by social psychologists and … individual’s relative risk aversion decreases when he becomes more relatively deprived as a result of an increase in the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136176
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
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stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024287
stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059447