Are People Willing to Pay to Reduce Others' Incomes?

By Daniel John Zizzo, Andrew J. Oswald. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Sabotage in contests: a survey (2015, background): “…similar contest-driven behavior, it is important to distinguish acts of sabotage from such behavior as ‘‘punishment’’ (Abbink et al. 2010), ‘‘nastiness’’ (Zizzo and Oswald 2001; Abbink and Sadrieh 2009), ‘‘risk taking’’ (Genakos and Pagliero 2012), and ‘‘cheating’’ (Preston and Szymanski 2003).”
Leader Narcissism Predicts Malicious Envy and Supervisor-Targeted Counterproductive Work Behavior: Evidence from Field and Experimental Research (2018, background): “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).”
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).”
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.”
Do Envious CEOs Cause Merger Waves (2010, background): “7 Experimental evidence on envy is provided by Martin (1981); Clark and Oswald (1996); Zizzo and Oswald (2001); Cason and Mui (2002); and Zizzo (2003).”
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.”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, unknown): “In Zizzo and Oswald (2001), experimental participants paid out of their own winnings in order to burn the money earned by other participants.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “The authors found considerable heterogeneity in social preferences and showed that individuals are less generous (or even downright destructive, as in Zizzo and Oswald, 2001), toward individuals outside their group, even when groups are essentially randomly formed.”
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…”
Nonhuman Species’ Reactions to Inequity and their Implications for Fairness (2006, background): “…poorly when they are treated unfairly, giving more than the minimum required in experimental games (Henrich et al., 2001) and frequently punishing in situations in which another individual behaves noncooperatively (Fehr and Rockenbach, 2003; Kahneman et al., 1986; Zizzo and Oswald, 2001).”