Work and the good life: How work contributes to meaning in life

SJ Ward, LA King - Research in organizational behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Many people expect their work to provide meaning to their lives, yet the specific
organizational factors that can promote meaning in life are not clearly delineated. Drawing …

Preferences for redistribution

F Mengel, E Weidenholzer - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We survey the literature on preferences for redistribution. We discuss different ways the
literature has measured these preferences and review literature on the different …

Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?

I Almås, AW Cappelen… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and
Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences …

Experimental methods: Pay one or pay all

G Charness, U Gneezy, B Halladay - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2016 - Elsevier
In some experiments participants make multiple decisions; this feature facilitates gathering a
considerable amount of incentivized data over the course of a compact session. A …

Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment

J Andreoni, N Nikiforakis, J Stoop - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Does higher socioeconomic status predict decreased prosocial behavior? Methodological
issues such as the reliance of survey studies on self-reported measures of prosociality, the …

Buying time promotes happiness

AV Whillans, EW Dunn, P Smeets… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Around the world, increases in wealth have produced an unintended consequence: a rising
sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a …

Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments

J Andreoni, N Nikiforakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The ability to predict when societies will replace one social norm for another can have
significant implications for welfare, especially when norms are detrimental. A popular theory …

[HTML][HTML] Wealthy Americans and redistribution: The role of fairness preferences

A Cohn, LJ Jessen, M Klašnja, P Smeets - Journal of Public Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the attitudes of the wealthy towards government redistribution using a large
and diverse sample of individuals from the top 5% of the income and wealth distribution in …

Are the rich more selfish than the poor, or do they just have more money? A natural field experiment

J Andreoni, N Nikiforakis, J Stoop - 2017 - nber.org
The growing concentration of resources among the rich has re-ignited a discussion about
whether the rich are more selfish than others. While many recent studies show the rich …

Altruism and egoism in investment decisions

D Brodback, N Guenster… - Review of Financial …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We provide survey evidence that personal values have an impact on individual investment
decisions, in particular preferences for socially responsible investing. Our findings show that …