Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Others'Incomes?

By Daniel John Zizzo, Andrew J. Oswald. 2000

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Envy, Comparison Costs, and the Economic Theory of the Firm (2008, unknown): “Experimental economic evidence on envy has been reported by Martin (1981), Cason and Mui (2002), and Zizzo and Oswald (2001).”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “Perhaps even more explicitly, Zizzo and Oswald (2001) report the results of an experiment whereby subjects in an experiment can pay to burn each other’s money.”
The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014, background): “…harm others even in the absence of immediate or future expected monetary return, which may be partially explained by a strong desire for dominance (Zizzo and Oswald, 2001; Zizzo, 2003; Abbink and Sadrieh, 2009; Abbink et al., 2009 ; Bolle et al., 2011).5 3 Although surveys provide interesting…”
Leader Narcissism Predicts Malicious Envy and Supervisor-Targeted Counterproductive Work Behavior: Evidence from Field and Experimental Research (2018, unknown): “They long to destroy the other’s desired advantage, if they cannot have it, or compromise their own outcomes to make the other suffer (Zizzo and Oswald 2001).”
Inequality and public good provision: An experimental analysis (2008, background): “…by the initial reactions of individuals with large fixed payments who neglect to contribute due to perceptions of higher status, or by the behavior of individuals with low fixed payments who neglect to contribute due to spite (e.g., Saijo and Nakamura, 1995) or envy (e.g., Zizzo and Oswald, 2001).”
Just luck: an experimental study of risk taking and fairness (2013, background): “The experiments of Zizzo and Oswald ( 2001 ) and Daniel John Zizzo ( 2003, 2004 come closest to our study. first in a In a series of intriguing experiments, subjects choose how much to invest risky gamble, earnings are distributed and then subjects can ( and often do destroy the earnings of other…”
Envy As Pain: Rethinking the Nature of Envy and Its Implications for Employees and Organizations (2012, background): “These include actions to diminish the relative advantage of an envied target (e.g., Elster, 1998; Smith, 1991; Zizzo & Oswald, 2001) and/or cooperative actions to increase one’s inclusive fitness (e.g., Frank, 1999; Matt, 2003).”
Mixed feelings: Theories of and evidence on giving (2010, result): “…including for the purpose of maintaining comparability with most dictator experiments and because of evidence from other studies (e.g., Bosman and van Winden 2002, Zizzo and Oswald 2001) suggesting that taking an amount is fundamentally different from a similarly sized reduction in a positive gift.”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “Perhaps even more explicitly, Zizzo and Oswald (2001) report the results of an experiment whereby subjects can pay to burn each other’s money.”
Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views (2019, background): “Most research in the unitary approach centers on otherdemoting strategies and reactions that harm the envied (e.g., Salovey & Rodin, 1984) and/or the resource (e.g., Elster, 1991; Wobker, 2015; Zizzo & Oswald, 2001).”