status competition (e.g. Hopkins and Kornienko, 2004) since the number of within-group peers who possess a similar income …

the differences in visible expenditures can be explained with a signaling model of status seeking. Among Black households …

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities …

This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and …

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities …

consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior. They consider the joint role of pre-tax wage inequality and of social … norms determining how social status is assigned. They find that when social status is ordinal (i.e., only one's rank in the … income distribution matters) inequality and taxation are substitutes. Instead, when status is cardinal (i.e., also the shape …

consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior. They consider the joint role of pre-tax wage inequality and of social … norms determining how social status is assigned. They find that if social status is ordinal (i.e., only one's rank in the …-tax wages (or earning potentials) is low enough - i.e., inequality and taxation are substitutes. Instead, if status is cardinal …