Do you envy others competitively or destructively? : an experimental and survey investigation

Grolleau , Gilles
        INRA
        , MONTPELLIER CEDEX 1 .
         UMR 1135 UMR INRA / CNRS / ENSAM / Univ. Montpellier 1 / MontpellierSupAgro : Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée; Mzoughi , Naoufel
        INRA
         .
         UR 0767 Unité de recherche Écodéveloppement; Sutan , Angela
        .

Do you envy others competitively or destructively? : an experimental and survey investigation

2006

Grolleau , Gilles (INRA , MONTPELLIER CEDEX 1 (France). UMR 1135 UMR INRA / CNRS / ENSAM / Univ. Montpellier 1 / MontpellierSupAgro : Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée) | Mzoughi , Naoufel (INRA (France). UR 0767 Unité de recherche Écodéveloppement) | Sutan , Angela (Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Economique sur l'Energie(France).)

Envy is evident when an agent undertakes a costly effort to reduce the gap between his situation and the envied others’ situation. This attempt can take two paths. An agent characterized by competitive or white envy is willing to incur a cost in order to keep up with the Joneses’ situation. An agent characterized by destructive or black envy is willing to incur a cost in order to push the others downwards. Using experiments and survey data, we show (1) that people exhibit competitive and destructive forms of envy and (2) that the dominant form of envy varies across domains. A major implication is that underdevelopment may be partly due to destructive envy

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