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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974
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Income or leisure? On the hidden benefits of (un-)employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719306
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164141
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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021
We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of selfreports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643582
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On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills: What is being measured and why it matters
Humphries, John Eric; Kosse, Fabian - 2016
measured into underlying personality traits and economic preferences. We demonstrate that the construction of the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574115
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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600766
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
Fehr, Ernst - 2008
primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600798
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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017463
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
Fehr, Ernst - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018701
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Artificial intelligence and workers' well-being
Giuntella, Osea; König, Johannes; Stella, Luca - 2023
This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers' well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377626