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Vikander, Nick - 2011

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … goods signals. If concern for status is sufficiently high, then the firm will only place a single variety on the market. …

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Lower in rank, but happier: The complex relationship between status and happiness

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2016

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …

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The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

van Landeghem, Bert; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2017

A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in …

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Social Comparison and Risky Choices

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009

This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment in which participants make a series of choices between...

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Positional enhancement in effortbased social comparisons

Nieboer, Jeroen - 2022

Salient social comparisons to peers are generally thought to increase people's productive effort. But social comparisons can also become ends in themselves, with individuals seeking to outrank others by costly, non-productive means. This paper explores the motives behind such tendencies in the...

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Choosing the Joneses : Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards

Knell, Markus; Falk, Armin - 2004

A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...

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Protestant Ethic, Status Seeking, and Economic Growth

Rauscher, Michael - 1997

of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper … addresses the question under which circum-stances status-seeking behaviour may lead to permanent economic growth in a simple … model. The protestant ethic is interpreted as a special case of status-seeking behaviour. It is shown that societies …

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Charitable giving among females and males: An empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis

Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012

public. In line with the competitive altruism hypothesis, a biology-based explanation for status-seeking behavior, especially …

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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012

This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status … self-awareness about status-seeking behavior that is robust to increased belief compensation. We also found that subjects … expected others to be as status-seeking as they are themselves or even less. …

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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

young people and from altering the typical market mechanism of intergenerational transfer of human capital and social status …

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