In assessing relative deprivation, the classical approach considers that individuals compare their income with each and every income of the distribution, and assign equal weight to these comparisons. In this paper we propose a more realistic alternative approach to obtain individual deprivation....

La literatura existente ha asumido que el efecto de la sobre-educación es constante a lo largo de la distribución condicional de salarios. En este artículo usamos la regresión cuantílica con datos de 12 países europeos para mostrar que las diferencias entre los segmentos de la...

In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. Furthermore, we test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of the comparison effect. Using the Latinobarómetro Survey (2007) we find...

In this paper we experimentally manipulate the informational feedback and the technology used in two team production games. Production functions are aggregative (a standard linear VCM) or weak link (the minimum or weakest link game, WLM). We analyze two informational conditions, relative to a...

Using a linear public good game we investigate the role of exemplary behavior on cooperation in public goods games. Subjects face the chance of show a good (like the employee of the month) or a bad example (evading taxes) to the rest of their group, knowing in advance that the unique feedback...

We study a problem where a group of voters must decide which candidates are elected from a set of alternatives. The voters’ preferences on the combinations of elected candidates are represented by orderings. We propose a family of restrictions of the domain of separable preferences. These...