Is the desire for status a fundamental human motive? A review of the empirical literature.

C Anderson, JAD Hildreth, L Howland - Psychological bulletin, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The current review evaluates the status hypothesis, which states that that the desire for
status is a fundamental motive. Status is defined as the respect, admiration, and voluntary …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating the consumer response to fuel economy: A review of the literature

G Helfand, A Wolverton - International review of Environmental …, 2011 - researchgate.net
How consumers evaluate trade-offs between the cost of buying additional fuel economy and
the expected fuel savings that result is an important underlying determinant of the overall …

A choice experiment on alternative fuel vehicle preferences of private car owners in the Netherlands

A Hoen, MJ Koetse - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents results of an online stated choice experiment on preferences of Dutch
private car owners for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) and their characteristics. Results show …

Attitudes to income inequality: Experimental and survey evidence

AE Clark, C d'Ambrosio - Handbook of income distribution, 2015 - Elsevier
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income
inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We …

Are positional concerns stronger in some domains than in others?

SJ Solnick, D Hemenway - American Economic Review, 2005 - pubs.aeaweb.org
For more than one hundred years, economists have discussed the concept of positional
goods—that the utility conferred by many, perhaps even most, goods depends not only on …

Preferences for status: Evidence and economic implications

O Heffetz, RH Frank - Handbook of social economics, 2011 - Elsevier
This chapter brings together some of the recent empirical and experimental evidence
regarding preferences for social status. While briefly reviewing evidence from different …

Income inequality, life satisfaction inequality and trust: a cross country panel analysis

J Graafland, B Lous - Journal of happiness studies, 2019 - Springer
Literature has argued that income inequality crowds out trust. However, whether income
inequality makes people less trusting depends on how they perceive income inequality …

How economic contractions and expansions affect expenditure patterns

WA Kamakura, R Yuxing Du - Journal of consumer research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we attempt to understand how household budget allocations across various
expenditure categories change when the economy is in recession or expansion. The …

Conspicuous consumption and the rising importance of experiential purchases

F Bronner, R de Hoog - International Journal of Market …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
More than 100 years ago, the term conspicuous consumption was coined. In the economist
tradition, emphasis was always on the demonstration of wealth, income, and status by …

[LIBRO][B] Long work hours culture: Causes, consequences and choices

RJJ Burke, CL Cooper - 2008 - books.google.com
Work hours has become a'hot topic'. This volume examines the effects of work hours on
individual, family and organizational health. It considers why some people work long hours …