2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses on Social Preference
| Project/Area Number |
21830057
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMADA Katsunori Osaka University, 社会経済研究所, 特任研究員 (80533603)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 社会的地位選好 / 社会的効用 / イースターリンの逆説 / 離散選択実験 |
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| Research Abstract |
I conducted an internet-based large-scale survey of hypothetical choice experiment on the relative utility hypothesis which posits that human being make decisions taking into account not only their own conditions but also consequences of their behavior on social interactions. I showed that not only the intensity but also the distribution of relative utility are different across specific comparison benchmarks, and across types of reference groups people are facing in the experiments. The relative utility effect among Japanese respondents is found to be not as strong as can validate the Easterlin paradox.
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