Van Herwaarden, F., Kapteyn, A., &Van Praag, B. (1977). Twelve thousand individual welfare functions: A comparison of six samples in Belgium and The Netherlands

  The paper summarizes evidence with respect to the individual welfare function of income. Moreover a number of new empirical results is presented. Data are used from six surveys in Belgium and The Netherlands. The relationships considered appear to be stable across the different samples. The implications of the results for social policy are briefly …

Kahneman, D., Knetsch, J. L., &Thaler, R. (1986). Fairness as a constraint on profit seeking: Entitlements in the market. The American economic review,728-741.

  Community standards of fairness for the setting of prices and wages were elicited by telephone surveys. In customer or labor markets, it is acceptable for a firm to raise prices (or cut wages) when profits are threatened and to maintain prices when costs diminish. It is unfair to exploit shifts in demand by raising …

Greenberg, J. (1990). Employee theft as a reaction to underpayment inequity: The hidden cost of pay cuts.

  Employee theft rates were measured in manufacturing plants during a period in which pay was temporarily reduced by 15%. Compared with pre- or postreduction pay period (or with control groups whose pay was unchanged), groups whose pay was reduced had significantly higher theft rates. When the basis for the pay cuts was thoroughly and …

Laibson, D. (1997). Golden eggs and hyperbolic discounting. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(2), 443-478.

Hyperbolic discount functions induce dynamically inconsistent preferences, implying a motive for consumers to constrain their own future choices. This paper analyzes the decisions of a hyperbolic consumer who has access to an imperfect commitment technology: an illiquid asset whose sale must be initiated one period before the sale proceeds are received. The model predicts that …

Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D. A., Schwarz, N., &Stone, A. A. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method.

The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) assesses how people spend their time and how they experience the various activities and settings of their lives, combining features of time-budget measurement and experience sampling. Participants systematically reconstruct their activities and experiences of the preceding day with procedures designed to reduce recall biases. The DRM’s utility is shown by …

Espe, H., &Seiwert, M. (1987). Television viewing types, general life satisfaction, and viewing amount: An empirical study in West Germany. Communications, 13(2), 95-110.

Studied the interactions among TV program interests, sociodemographic and political characteristics, general life satisfaction, and amount of TV viewing time. Human subjects: 956 normal male and female German adolescents and adults (15 yrs and over). Ss completed interviews and were classified into TV viewer types on the basis of their responses. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) …

Benz, M. (2005). Not for the profit, but for the satisfaction?–evidence on worker well‐being in non‐profit firms. Kyklos, 58(2), 155-176.

Non‐profit firms are often seen as workplaces where people not only work for money, but also find substantial satisfaction in the kind of work they do. Studies looking at compensating wage differentials, however, have only found limited support for this notion. In this paper, a novel approach is undertaken to compare the utilities of non‐profit …

Diener, E., Gohm, C. L., Suh, E., &Oishi, S. (2000). Similarity of the relations between marital status and subjective well-being across cultures. Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 31(4), 419-436.

In a sample of 59,169 persons in 42 nations, relations between marital status and subjective well-being were found to be very similar across the world. Although cultural variables were found to alter the size of certain relations between marital status and subjective well-being, the effect sizes were very small. Specifically, in terms of life satisfaction, …