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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence

Mayraz, Guy - 2009

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

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Relative Deprivation and Well-Being of the Rural Youth

Sakketa, Takalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2021

Relative income deprivation is one mechanism through which income or wealth inequality is hypothesized to affect human … deprivation (RD) from income per se, to consider social relative deprivation as well as assets (nonmonetary) relative deprivation … results indicate that objective relative income deprivation has a ‘’signal effect’’ or a ‘’positive externality’’— higher …

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Choosing or inheriting the Joneses : the origins of reference groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with …

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Helene - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784679

Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784680