Do Green Behaviors Earn Social Status?

The Family Gap : Do Mothers Earn Less ?

Women must work fifteen months and eight days to earn what men earn in a year" (Lesley, 1999). In a society where women are often single mothers who must support both themselves and children, why would they get paid less than men for doing the same job? When John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which promised women "equal pay for equal work," women earned only 58 cents for every do...

Do Social Status Seeking Behaviors Worsen the Tragedy of the Commons?

Why Do People Care About Social Status?

This paper shows that complementary interaction induces people to care about social status because it serves as a signal of non-observable abilities. There is a unique equilibrium in which everyone cares about social status. In this equilibrium a person’s social status perfectly reveals his abilities, and everyone matches with a person of like ability. By interpreting social status as a signal ...

Do Firms Endowed with Greater Strategic Capability Earn Higher Profits?

Vol. LII (June 2015), 325–336 325 © 2015, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Bo Zhou is Assistant Professor in Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (e-mail: [email protected]). Carl F. Mela is T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (e-mail: [email protected]). Wilfred Amaldoss ...

Why Do Married Men Earn More than Unmarried Men?

Previous research reported that married men, ceteris paribus, earn more than unmarried men. A variety of explanations have been suggested for this association One class of explanation argues that wives, for various reasons, increase their husbands’ wages. Another class of explanation maintains that the causality is reversed, that is, high wage men are more likely to get married than low income ...