-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the “naïve” ex ante cost-benefit analysis …

This paper shows that households with positional concerns and convex status utility use gambling to attempt … Germany, proxying the status orientation of households by their expenditures for conspicuous consumption. Our empirical … results strongly indicate that households who care about status are more likely to participate in gambling and invest more in …

This paper investigates how the presence of social capital affects the externality arising from status …

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model … provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re …

which people gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing criminal acts. As zero-tolerance keeps … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal …

The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870-2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status … information includes occupations from electoral rolls, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities. Status …. Despite evidence on conventional measures that Australia has higher rates of social mobility than the UK or USA, status …