This paper provides evidence from Internet-based, large-scale survey data of hypothetical choice experiment on the …, incentivized choice experiment studies, and neuroscience studies in such a way that methodological problems among previous studies … different across specific comparison benchmarks (internal reference group), and across types of reference groups people are …

-imposed reference persons’ incomes that are found in most of the happiness studies testing comparison effects. This approach allows … investigation of the differences in comparison effects across types of reference groups as well as respondents’ individual … characteristics, including specific comparison benchmarks, which are the main open questions in the literature. Some results from our …

mitigation. We conducted a framed-field experiment among a Germany-wide sample to provide a revealed preference study on the …