Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional concerns are positively correlated with absolute level of income of a country.

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Year of publication:	2009-08
Authors:	Akay, Alpaslan ; Martinsson, Peter ; Medhin, Haileselassie
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Ethiopia \| positional concern \| relative income

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 4354 20 pages
Classification:	C90 - Design of Experiments. General ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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