Relative concerns
How reference income, social position, and comparison processes affect utility, labour supply, and the subjective value of income.
RESEARCH
Intertemporal preferences
How patience and time preferences relate to positional concerns, forecasts of future well-being, and economic decision-making.
Skills and labour
How cognitive and non-cognitive skills interact with employment, labour supply, gender, and forecasting accuracy.
Environment and behaviour
How relative concerns and social comparison relate to environmental attitudes and collective-action outcomes.
Research papers
PUBLISHED
Stick and Stay, Make it Pay? Time Preferences and Marginal (Dis)utility of Relative Concerns
with Alpaslan Akay
Social Indicators Research · 2026
PUBLISHED
Ekonomi-Tek · 2025
FORTHCOMING
Do Patient Individuals Care Less About Status? Experimental Evidence
with Alpaslan Akay
Journal of Applied Economics
R&R
The Effort Behind Income Comparisons: Reference Income and Working Hours
Single-authored
Applied Economics Letters
R&R
Internal and External Control Beliefs and Calibration of Well-Being Forecasts
with Alpaslan Akay
Journal of Happiness Studies
R&R
The Price of Hope: Reference-Group Mobility and the Subjective Value of Income
with Alpaslan Akay
Economics Letters
UNDER REVIEW
Intertemporal Preferences and Forecast Errors in Well-Being Expectations
with Alpaslan Akay
2026
UNDER REVIEW
Keeping Up at the Planet’s Expense: Longitudinal Evidence on Relative Concerns and Environmental Attitudes
with Alpaslan Akay
2026
UNDER REVIEW
Non-Cognitive and Cognitive Skills on Labour Supply: Are They Complementary or Substitutes?
with Alpaslan Akay and Tolga Aksoy
2026
ONGOING
Cognitive Skills and Forecasting Errors
Work in progress
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