Choosing the Joneses: On the Endogeneity of Reference Groups

By Armin Falk, M. Knell. 2000

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
2. Victoria Ateca-Amestoy
3. Esperanza Vera‐Toscano

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

In Safety Research

1. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

Citations in the corpus

• The role of income aspirations in individual happiness (2004, unknown): “However, reference groups are only partly exogenously given but to some extent actively chosen (Falk and Knell 2000).”
• The relevance of social interactions on housing satisfaction (2008, background): “There has been both theoretical and empirical work on the choice and importance of the reference group for individuals’ well-being (Falk and Knell 2000; Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2002b).”