protection against attacks, while individually rational, results in even more waste. Subjects purchased insurance at twice the …

wealth, predict that the poor envy the rich. Reference Group Theory predicts that the poor (rich) envy others from the same … social group or class. We report results from a game designed to stimulate feelings of envy. Players are defined both by ….e. their reference groups). We find that, while across class envy is common; within class envy motivates the most anti …

welfare by approximately 20 per cent. anti-social preferences ; insurance ; envy … protection against attacks, while individually rational, results in even more waste. Subjects purchased insurance at twice the …

While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … appear to mitigate this prevalence. Furthermore, we found strong evidence of cultural variability in the development of envy …

Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures … with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway, are … manipulate them. Our results support the practical use of the celebrated Selfridge-Conway procedure, and more generally, of envy …