Leana, C., Appelbaum, E., & Shevchuk, I. (2009). Work process and quality of care in early childhood education: The role of job crafting. Academy of Management Journal, 52(6), 1169-1192.

In this study we conducted performance assessments in 62 childcare centers and surveyed 232 teachers and aides, to examine the extent to which workers crafted their jobs and how such crafting affected classroom quality. Results show that individual and collaborative job crafting are distinct constructs; work discretion is related to both; and collaborative crafting is …

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 …