Abeler, J., Falk, A., Goette, L., and Huffman, D. (2011). Reference points and effort provision. American Economic Review, 101(2):470–92.
Alesina, A. and La Ferrara, E. (2005). Preferences for redistribution in the land of opportunities. Journal of Public Economics, 89(5-6):897–931.
Almås, I., Cappelen, A. W., and Tungodden, B. (2020). Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than scandinavians? Journal of Political Economy, 128(5):1753–1788.
Alvaredo, F., Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., and Zucman, G. (2017). World inequality report 2018. World Inequality Lab.
Andreoni, J., Rao, J. M., and Trachtman, H. (2017). Avoiding the ask: A field experiment on altruism, empathy, and charitable giving. Journal of Political Economy, 125(3):625–653.
Bayer, P. and Charles, K. K. (2018). Divergent paths: A new perspective on earnings differences between black and white men since 1940. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3):1459–1501.
BeÌnabou, R. and Ok, E. A. (2001). Social mobility and the demand for redistribution: the POUM hypothesis. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(2):447–487.
Bellemare, C., Bissonnette, L., and Kröger, S. (2016). Simulating power of economic experiments: the powerBBK package. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2(2):157–168.
Bellemare, C., Kröger, S., and Van Soest, A. (2008). Measuring inequity aversion in a heterogeneous population using experimental decisions and subjective probabilities. Econometrica, 76(4):815–839.
Blau, F. D. and Kahn, L. M. (2017). The gender wage gap: Extent, trends, and explanations. Journal of Economic Literature, 55(3):789–865.
Bolton, G. E. and Ockenfels, A. (2000). ERC: A theory of equity, reciprocity, and competition. American Rconomic Review, 90(1):166–193.
Breza, E., Kaur, S., and Shamdasani, Y. (2017). The morale effects of pay inequality. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2):611–663.
Cacault, M. P. and Grieder, M. (2016). How group identification distorts beliefs. SSRN Working Paper No. 2601712.
Camerer, C., Babcock, L., Loewenstein, G., and Thaler, R. (1997). Labor supply of New York City cabdrivers: One day at a time. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(2):407– 441.
Card, D., Mas, A., Moretti, E., and Saez, E. (2012). Inequality at work: The effect of peer salaries on job satisfaction. American Economic Review, 102(6):2981–3003.
Chapman, G. B. (1996). Expectations and preferences for sequences of health and money. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 67(1):59–75.
Clark, A. E. and Oswald, A. J. (1996). Satisfaction and comparison income. Journal of Public Economics, 61(3):359 – 381.
Clark, A. E., Frijters, P., and Shields, M. A. (2008). Relative income, happiness, and utility: An explanation for the easterlin paradox and other puzzles. Journal of Economic Literature, 46(1):95–144.
Cohn, A., Fehr, E., and Goette, L. (2015). Fair wages and effort provision: Combining evidence from a choice experiment and a field experiment. Management Science, 61(8):1777–1794.
Cohn, A., Fehr, E., Herrmann, B., and Schneider, F. (2014). Social comparison and effort provision: Evidence from a field experiment. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(4):877–898.
Crawford, V. P. and Meng, J. (2011). New York City cab drivers’ labor supply revisited: Reference-dependent preferences with rational expectations targets for hours and income. American Economic Review, 101(5):1912–1932.
Dana, J., Weber, R. A., and Kuang, J. X. (2007). Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness. Economic Theory, 33(1):67–80.
DellaVigna, S., Lindner, A., Reizer, B., and Schmieder, J. F. (2017). Reference-dependent job search: evidence from Hungary. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(4):1969–2018.
Dube, A., Giuliano, L., and Leonard, J. (2019). Fairness and frictions: The impact of unequal raises on quit behavior. American Economic Review, 109(2):620–63.
Engel, C. (2011). Dictator games: A meta study. Experimental Economics, 14(4):583–610.
Epper, T., Fehr, E., and Senn, J. (2020). Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics. University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper, (339).
Fehr, E. and Schmidt, K. M. (1999). A theory of fairness, competition, and cooperation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(3):817–868.
Fischbacher, U. (2007). z-tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments. Experimental economics, 10(2):171–178.
Fisman, R., Jakiela, P., and Kariv, S. (2017). Distributional preferences and political behavior. Journal of Public Economics, 155:1–10.
Genesove, D. and Mayer, C. (2001). Loss aversion and seller behavior: Evidence from the housing market. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(4):1233–1260.
Goldin, C. and Katz, L. F. (2007). Long-run changes in the wage structure: narrowing, widening, polarizing. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (2):135–168.
Greiner, B. (2015). Subject pool recruitment procedures: organizing experiments with orsee. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 1(1):114–125.
Grossman, Z. and Van Der Weele, J. J. (2017). Self-image and willful ignorance in social decisions. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(1):173–217.
Guyse, J. L., Keller, L. R., and Eppel, T. (2002). Valuing environmental outcomes: Preferences for constant or improving sequences. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87(2):253–277.
- Hartley, D. (2013). Urban decline in Rust-Belt cities. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary, 2013-06.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Iriberri, N. and Rey-Biel, P. (2011). The role of role uncertainty in modified dictator games. Experimental Economics, 14(2):160–180.
Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica, 47(2):263–292.
Kerschbamer, R. and Müller, D. (2020). Social preferences and political attitudes: An online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample. Journal of Public Economics, 182:104076.
Kőszegi, B. and Rabin, M. (2006). A model of reference-dependent preferences. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(4):1133–1165.
Kuhn, P., Kooreman, P., Soetevent, A., and Kapteyn, A. (2011). The effects of lottery prizes on winners and their neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch postcode lottery. American Economic Review, 101(5):2226–47.
Loewenstein, G. and Sicherman, N. (1991). Do workers prefer increasing wage profiles? Journal of Labor Economics, 9(1):67–84.
Luttmer, E. F. (2005). Neighbors as negatives: relative earnings and well-being. Quarterly journal of economics, 120(3):963–1002.
Mas, A. (2006). Pay, reference points, and police performance. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(3):783–821.
- Milanovic, B. (2016). Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Page, E. B. (1963). Ordered hypotheses for multiple treatments: a significance test for linear ranks. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301):216–230.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century Century. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Piketty, T., Saez, E., and Zucman, G. (2018). Distributional national accounts: methods and estimates for the United States. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2):553–609.
Rizzo, J. A. and Zeckhauser, R. J. (2003). Reference incomes, loss aversion, and physician behavior. Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(4):909–922.
- Ross, W. T. and Simonson, I. (1991). Evaluations of pairs of experiences: A preference for happy endings. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 4(4):273–282.
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Senik, C. (2009). Direct evidence on income comparisons and their welfare effects. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72(1):408–424.
Solnick, S. J. and Hemenway, D. (1998). Is more always better?: A survey on positional concerns. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 37(3):373–383.
Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D. (1991). Loss aversion in riskless choice: A referencedependent model. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(4):1039–1061.