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Rich meets poor : an international fairness experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377115
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Positional income concerns : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014
agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, some of which depend on the reference group. Furthermore, risk and fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432342
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Positional income concers : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014
agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, some of which depend on the reference group. Furthermore, risk and fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462097
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Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes : an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - 2019
. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059641
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Let bygones be bygones? : socialist regimes and personalities in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We show that there are significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299210
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Let bygones be bygones? : socialist regimes and personalities in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We show that there are significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295790
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Social preferences and political attitudes : an online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel - 2017
types. Inequality-averse subjects, altruists and maxi-min sit at the opposite end of the political spectrum, while all the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714571
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) : scope, evolution and enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628618
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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634433
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Fairness ex ante & ex post : the benefits of renegotiation in media markets
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2010
provision on market prices, on the number of deals struck and on perceived fairness. Our results show that the provision leads … ; fairness ; Copyright ; Uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980427