Do You Enjoy Having More than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods

By Fredrik Carlsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Peter Martinsson. 2007

338 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Joaquín Artés
2. Conchita D'Ambrosio
3. Javier Salinas-Jiménez
4. M. M. Salinas-Jiménez
5. Andrew E. Clark
6. Michael A. Shields
7. Nattavudh Powdthavee
8. Paul Dolan

In General Decision Sciences

1. Conchita D'Ambrosio
2. Andrew E. Clark
3. John Knight

In Safety Research

1. Conchita D'Ambrosio
2. Andrew E. Clark

Citations in the corpus

• Education as a Positional Good: A Life Satisfaction Approach (2011, background): “this topic can refer to the work by Solnick and Hemenway (1998), Alpizar et al. (2005), or Carlsson et al. (2007) , among others.”
• Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “Carlsson et al. (2007) reported that, on average, 45% of the utility increase from a small income increase arises from enjoying a higher relative income, a result that is halfway between 100% (corresponding to the hypothesis that only relative income matters) and 0% (where only absolute income…”