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Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers. 2013, 795, p. 1-14

Another Avenue for Anatomy of Income Comparisons : Evidence from Hypothetical Choice Experiments

The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

英語

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2013-03

https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/2010/DP0795R4.pdf

ISER discussion paper

September 2010, Revised December 2010, Secondly Revised November 2011, Thirdly Revised May 2012, Fourthly Revised March 2013.

We propose a new avenue for studying income comparisons effects, namely hypothetical discrete choice experiments in which respondents are presented with alternative combinations of hypothetical monthly income amounts, both for themselves and certain reference persons. With this experimental method we can avoid the problems associated with researcher-imposed reference persons’ incomes that are found in most of the happiness studies testing comparison effects. This approach allows investigation of the differences in comparison effects across types of reference groups as well as respondents’ individual characteristics, including specific comparison benchmarks, which are the main open questions in the literature. Some results from our original, large-scale, Internet-based survey are provided.

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Another Avenue for Anatomy of Income Comparisons : Evidence from Hypothetical Choice Experiments

The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

英語

2013-03

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers

795

1

14

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/13289

https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/2010/DP0795R4.pdf