Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment
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- Nisvan Erkal & Lata Gangadharan & Nikos Nikiforakis, 2011. "Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(7), pages 3330-3348, December.
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Keywords
Relative income; Altruism; Real effort; Self-selection; Luck;JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2010-01-10 (All new papers)
- NEP-CBE-2010-01-10 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2010-01-10 (Experimental Economics)
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