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Why social preferences matter : the impact of non-selfish motives on competition, cooperation and incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 112 (2002), pp. C1-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001666635
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction : Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173927
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction – Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1984 to 2008, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174810
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966917
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971047
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339611
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003294035
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Heterogeneous social preference and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003261927
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740139