The Journal of Socio-Economics

1991 - 2009

Edited by M. Altman

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Volume 38, issue 5, 2009

A note on interdependent happiness pp. 713-721

Friedel Bolle, Yarema Okhrin and Claudia Vogel

How Sunday, price, and social norms influence donation behaviour pp. 722-727

Richard Martin and John Randal

On the absorbability of informational cascades in the laboratory pp. 728-738

Andrea Morone, Serena Sandri and Annamaria Fiore

An empirical investigation of heterogeneity in time preferences and smoking behaviors pp. 739-751

Michel Grignon

Risk behavior in decision-making in a multi-person-setting pp. 752-756

Thomas Fenzl and Thomas Brudermann

Perceived facilitators and barriers to saving among low-income youth pp. 757-763

Wheeler-Brooks, Jennifer and Edward Scanlon

Women and poverty: A gender-sensitive approach pp. 764-778

Amélia Bastos, Sara F. Casaca, Francisco Nunes and Jose Pereirinha

Gender pairing bias in trustworthiness pp. 779-789

Aurélie Bonein and Daniel Serra

Why a fixed workweek? pp. 790-798

Antonia Díaz and Cristina Echevarria

The role and significance of endogenous firing costs in a matching model with endogenous job destruction pp. 799-808

Enrico Saltari and Riccardo Tilli

Older workers' employment in dynamic technology changes pp. 809-813

Miki Malul

Consumer attitudes towards switching supplier in three deregulated markets pp. 814-819

Amelie Gamble, E. Asgeir Juliusson and Tommy Gärling

Faking it: Personality and individual difference predictors of willingness to buy counterfeit goods pp. 820-825

Viren Swami, Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas and Adrian Furnham

Technical efficiency estimates of Cherokee agriculture: A pre- and post-removal analysis pp. 826-833

Matthew T. Gregg

With or without you? Measuring the quality of relational life throughout the world pp. 834-842

Luca Stanca

A simple theory of [`]meso'. On the co-evolution of institutions and platform size--With an application to varieties of capitalism and [`]medium-sized' countries pp. 843-858

Wolfram Elsner and Torsten Heinrich

Volume 38, issue 4, 2009

Commitment and weakness of will in game theory and neoclassical economics pp. 549-556

Roger A. McCain

Followers and leaders: Reciprocity, social norms and group behavior pp. 557-567

López-Pérez, Raúl

Do spending comparisons affect spending and satisfaction? pp. 568-573

Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway

Heterogeneous [`]adaptation' and [`]income effects' across self-reported health distribution? pp. 574-580

Montserrat Costa-Font and Costa-Font, Joan

The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates: Evidence from Catalonia pp. 581-589

Toni Mora and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada

The Easterlin paradox and the decline of social capital: An integrated explanation pp. 590-600

Maurizio Pugno

Social capital and business giving to charity following a natural disaster: An empirical assessment pp. 601-607

Okmyung Bin and Bob Edwards

Shoplifting, monitoring and price determination pp. 608-610

Gideon Yaniv

Formal and informal deterrents of crime in Japan: Roles of police and social capital revisited pp. 611-621

Eiji Yamamura

Non-expected utility maximizers behave as if expected utility maximizers: An experimental test pp. 622-629

Hiroshi Kurata, Hiroshi Izawa and Makoto Okamura

Satisfaction and [`]comparison sharing': What influences Swedish parents satisfaction with the sharing of parental leave? pp. 630-640

Anna Amilon

Tipping as risk sharing pp. 641-647

Steven J. Holland

Career prospects and tenure-job satisfaction profiles: Evidence from panel data pp. 648-657

Ioannis Theodossiou and Alexandros Zangelidis

Two sources of human irrationality: Cognitive dissonance and brain dysfunction pp. 658-662

David Lester and Bijou Yang

Non-response to the recycling promotion technique of blockleader and commitment pp. 663-671

Gonzalo Díaz Meneses

Urban path dependency theory and the living wage: Were cities that passed ordinances destined to do so? pp. 672-683

Levin-Waldman, Oren M.

Cognitive dissonance and the overtaking anomaly: Psychology in the principal-agent relationship pp. 684-690

John Alan Smith

Decisive FDI obstacles as an explanatory reason for limited FDI inflows in an EMU member state: The case of Greece pp. 691-704

Aristidis Bitzenis, Antonis Tsitouras and Vasileios A. Vlachos

P. Diamond and H. Vartiainen, Editors, Behavioral Economics and its Applications, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Woodstock (2007) 336 pp., $46.95, ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12284-7 and ISBN-10: 0-691-12284-9 pp. 705-706

Özgür Gürerk

Duncan Foley, Adam's Fallacy. A Guide to Economic Theology, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (2006) 265 pages including references and index. ISBN: 13:978-0-674-02309-3 pp. 706-707

Roger Frantz

Erratum to "Steven Pressman (Ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, Alternative Theories of the State, New York, NY (2006). viii+229 pp., Price $90.00, ISBN: 1-4039-9939-2" [The Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (2009) 2569-2571] pp. 709-711

Fadhel Kaboub and Devin Rafferty

Volume 38, issue 3, 2009

Social norms: Does it matter whether agents are rational or boundedly rational? pp. 403-410

Edward Cartwright

Explaining the gap between the theoretical prediction and experimental evidences about the investment in the spouse's human capital pp. 411-414

Xuemei Liu

Consumption theory with reference dependent utility pp. 415-420

Fredrik W. Andersson

The value of non-binding announcements in public goods experiments: Some theory and experimental evidence pp. 421-428

Michael Berlemann, Marcus Dittrich and Gunther Markwardt

Social capital as social networks: A new framework for measurement and an empirical analysis of its determinants and consequences pp. 429-442

Fabio Sabatini

Social capital: An analysis of factors influencing investment pp. 443-455

David W. Shideler and David S. Kraybill

Low wages and high unemployment rates: The role of social interactions in hiring discrimination pp. 456-463

Jacques, Jean-François and Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Good for the soul: The relationship between work, wellbeing and psychological capital pp. 464-474

Kenneth Cole, Anne Daly and Anita Mak

Do institutions really matter for saving among low-income households? A comparative approach pp. 475-483

Han, Chang-Keun and Michael Sherraden

Why do small firms produce the entrepreneurs? pp. 484-494

Simon C Parker

Cultural filtering in the hiring process and its relationship to welfare reform pp. 495-508

Dan Axelsen, Daniel A. Underwood and Dan Friesner

The effects of direct experience on consumer product evaluation pp. 509-518

. Manon de Groot, Gerrit Antonides, Daniel Read and W. Fred van Raaij

The financial practices and perceptions behind separate systems of household financial management pp. 519-529

Katherine J. Ashby and Carole. B. Burgoyne

Portfolio choice when relative income matters pp. 530-533

Sangkyun Park

Optimal dividend distribution policy from the perspective of the impatient and loss-averse investor pp. 534-540

Yang Yang, Isao Shoji and Sumei Kanehiro

R. Thaler and C. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Yale University Press, New Haven (2008) pp. 293, $26.00, ISBN: 978-0-300-12223-7 pp. 541-542

David Colander

Tobias F. Rotheli, Expectations, Rationality, and Economic Performance, Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA (2007) 202 pp., [euro]93.24, ISBN: 987-1-84542-724-9 pp. 542-543

Robert J. Oxoby

Erratum to "Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy: Theory and Empirics, H. Westlund. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York (2006). x + 212 pp., ISBN-10 3-540-35364-X, ISBN-13 978-540-35364-5" [The Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (2009) 2567-2569] pp. 545-546

Nicolas Sirven

Retraction notice to "Social mood: The stock market and political cycles" [J. Socio-Econ. 36 (2007) 734-744] pp. 547-547

John R. Nofsinger

Volume 38, issue 2, 2009

Gift-giving and deadweight loss pp. 215-220

Kristine E. Principe and Joseph G. Eisenhauer

"I don't want to be selling my soul": Two experiments in environmental economics pp. 221-229

Natalia V. Ovchinnikova, Hans J. Czap, Gary D. Lynne and Christopher W. Larimer

The distinct role of group-central and group-peripheral norms in taxpaying behaviour pp. 230-237

Julie S. Ashby, S. Alexander Haslam and Paul Webley

Perceived tax evasion and the importance of trust pp. 238-245

Henrik Hammar, Sverker C. Jagers and Katarina Nordblom

Universal Basic Income and Negative Income Tax: Two different ways of thinking redistribution pp. 246-255

Davide Tondani

Gender disparities in the Italian regions from a human development perspective pp. 256-269

Valeria Costantini and Salvatore Monni

Groom price-female human capital: Some empirical evidence pp. 270-279

Amarendra Sharma and Paul Frijters

Examining the structure of awareness and perceptions of groundnut aflatoxin among Ghanaian health and agricultural professionals and its influence on their actions pp. 280-287

Curtis M. Jolly, Budry Bayard, Richard T. Awuah, Simon C. Fialor and Johnathan T. Williams

Interview effects in the reporting of domestic violence pp. 288-300

W. David Allen

Does satisfaction matter? A microeconomic empirical analysis of the effect of social relations on economic welfare pp. 301-309

Giacomo Degli Antoni

Religion and subjective well-being among the elderly in China pp. 310-319

Philip H. Brown and Brian Tierney

Finance-growth-poverty nexus in South Africa: A dynamic causality linkage pp. 320-325

Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Human development and the optimal size of government pp. 326-330

Antony Davies

The problem of the 21st century: Economics faculty and the color line pp. 331-343

Gregory Price

Occupational differences in the wage penalty for obese women pp. 344-349

Ronald DeBeaumont

The effect of immigration on the earnings of native-born workers: Evidence from Australia pp. 350-356

Temesgen Kifle

Effects of positive attitude on earnings: Evidence from the US longitudinal data pp. 357-371

Madhu S. Mohanty

The impact of union direct voice on voluntary and involuntary absenteeism pp. 372-383

Carlos Garcia-Serrano and Miguel A. Malo

The role of relationships in labor markets for the popular arts and its impact on product quality pp. 384-390

Joshua M. Frank and Carlisle-Frank, Pamela

A post-Keynesian regulatory model of privatization pp. 391-398

Wissam AlHussaini and Rick Molz

D.C. North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2005) pp. xi, 187, $29.95/£18.95, ISBN 0-691-11805-1 pp. 399-400

Elias Khalil

Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McClosky, The Cult of Statistical Significance, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (2008) 352 pp., Price: US$ 24.95, ISBN-10: 0472050079 pp. 400-401

Kudret Topyan

Volume 38, issue 1, 2009

Institutions matter: The case of Vietnam pp. 1-12

Thi Bich Tran, R. Quentin Grafton and Tom Kompas

Cultural, cognition and human action pp. 13-24

Adam Gifford

Living will: Ruminations of an economist pp. 25-30

Li Way Lee

Becoming: Identity and spirituality pp. 31-36

Rowena Ann Pecchenino

Rational praying: The economics of prayer pp. 37-44

Timothy Tyler Brown

The economics of possible selves pp. 45-51

Shinji Teraji

Relative status and interdependent effects in consumer behavior pp. 52-59

Parfait U. Gasana

About the "economic" origin of altruism pp. 60-71

Antonio Luigi Paolilli

The determinants of purposeful voluntarism pp. 72-79

Jody W. Lipford and Bruce Yandle

On the relation between impulses to help and causes of neediness: An experimental study pp. 80-88

Gelkha Buitrago, Werner Gueth and Maria Vittoria Levati

Experiment timing and preferences for fairness pp. 89-95

David Lewis Dickinson

Some indications of limits to framing the policy preferences of the civically engaged: Interplay of social capital, race attitudes, and social justice frames pp. 96-103

Catherine S. Elliott, Keith Fitzgerald, Donald M. Hayward and Stela Krasteva

The demand for job protection: Some clues from behavioural economics pp. 104-114

Fabio D'Orlando and Francesco M. Ferrante

Social preferences for public intervention: An empirical investigation based on French data pp. 115-128

Romina Boarini and Christine Le Clainche

An economic analysis of the job search decisions for Canadian nurses pp. 129-137

Karen J. Buhr

Socioeconomic determinants of the need for personal assistance reported by community-dwelling elderly: Empirical evidence from a French national health survey pp. 138-146

Bérengère Davin, Alain Paraponaris and Pierre Verger

The poor, the rich and the happy: Exploring the link between income and subjective well-being pp. 147-158

Emmanouil Mentzakis and Mirko Moro

When money does not buy happiness: The case of "frustrated achievers" pp. 159-167

Leonardo Becchetti and Fiammetta Rossetti

A theory of happiness-wealth relationship with status-sensitive communication pp. 168-172

Amnon Levy

Young and out: An application of a prospects-based concept of social exclusion pp. 173-187

Oddbjørn Raaum, Jon Rogstad, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

Cooperative behavior and institutions pp. 188-196

Arild Vatn

What happened to the Washington Consensus? The evolution of international development policy pp. 197-208

John Marangos

Measures of freedom pp. 209-214

Antonio D'Agata