This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a … developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … patterns via status effect turns out to be statistically significant. Households in the majority of the states, under various …

prices, market shares, and profits. Our demand estimation results show large differences in brand loyalty, and switching …

We investigate how adolescents’ social status in their peers' eyes shapes the way they view their social climate in … secondary schools. Utilizing novel data on over 10,000 students, we construct comprehensive measures of social status and …

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual attractiveness. In three between-subject conditions, the assigned other … subject is either of higher, lower or equal status. The incidence of electric shocks is substantially higher among subjects …

Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost … consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence …