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18 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15128
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14645
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
Richard A. Easterlin
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11535
Tax Evasion on a Social Network
Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Matthew D. Rablen
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11365
The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance
Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube
substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11099
The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India
Bert van Landeghem, Anneleen Vandeplas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10820
Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
Laszlo Goerke, Michael Neugart
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10754
Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition
Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton
revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10038
Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction
Christian Grund, Maike Rubin
published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9565
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Bram Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang, Fei Song
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9282
Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture
Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7097
Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
Christian Grund, Johannes Martin
revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6863
Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being
Raymond Montizaan, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 1-26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5609
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5550
Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann, Frédéric Schneider
revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3639
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Martin Sefton
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2084
Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany
Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze
published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2009, 18(2), 70-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1152
Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
Armin Falk, Markus Knell
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (3), 417-435
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