Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others

By S. Solnick, D. Hemenway. 2005

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

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Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster (2008, background): “These may be thought of as ‘ideal’ types though perhaps not ideal enough since a study by Solnick and Hemenway showed that public goods can be positional as well (Solnick and Hemenway 2005).”
Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness? (2013, background): “The empirical evidence on the relative income effect is wide, ranging from revealed preference experiments (Solnick and Hemenway 2005) to econometric investigations (see Clark et al.”
Conformity and the Demand for Environmental Goods (2010, result): “This reasoning is also in line with the growing empirical literature showing that people are concerned with their consumption relative to others in addition to the absolute level of consumption (Alpizar et al. 2005; Johansson-Stenman et al. 2002; Solnick and Hemenway 1998, 2005 ).”
When the Joneses’ consumption hurts : Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation (2008, background): “6 Solnick and Hemenway (1998) and Carlsson et al. (2007) found no significant correlations between, on the one hand, the degree of positionality and, on the other, demographic characteristics at the individual level. Similarly, in a study analyzing the positional preferences among students, Alpizar ”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “The percentage who exhibit “relative” preferences can be large: Half of the respondents said that they preferred to have 50% less real income but higher relative income (i.e., they preferred A to B; see Solnick and Hemenway, 1998, 2005).”
Managing without growth (2008, background): “These may be thought of as ‘ideal’ types though perhaps not ideal enough since a study by Solnick and Hemenway showed that public goods can be positional as well (Solnick and Hemenway 2005).”