compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the …While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received … much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and …

Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …

Charitable giving is one of the major obligations Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but … public often increases giving. We use an experiment to assess the effects this moral prescription on actual giving levels in …

Charitable giving is one of the major obligations Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but …

A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This … article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the … applications of our theoretical work: envy can explain why a lower-level worker is awarded stock options, why incentive pay is …

Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307 … in 1990-1999 envy has been the dominant concern in West Germany and signaling the dominant factor in East Germany, income …

Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We find support for a positional concern effect or 'envy' whose magnitude in …

This paper examines the second-best tax policy to minimize envy in the sense of Chaudhuri (1986) and Diamantaras and … in the sense of Hemming and Keen (1983), with respect to the intensity of envy. Envy is then minimized in the most …