Relative earnings and giving in a real-effort experiment

American Economic Review

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3330-3348

  Erkal, Nisvan ^a   Gangadharan, Lata ^b   Nikiforakis, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 83755205768     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.7.3330     Document Type: Article

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