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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes : The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

Cawley, John H. - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus : A Survey Experiment in the Field

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013

of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … reconcile the conflicting evidence on the effect of negative vs. positive advertising, as the average impact may wash out when …

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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2013

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

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Comparative Statics for a Consumer with Possibly Multiple Optimum Consumption Bundles

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2010

Non-positivity of the generalized substitution effect, non-positivity of the own-price substitution effect, homogeneity of degree zero in all prices and income, and the law of demand are some of the most primitive comparative static results in the standard revealed preference theory of...

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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might : A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Boone, Jan - 2009

It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...

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Aggregation Without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer

Cherchye, L. - 2012

In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...

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Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption

Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2019

We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...

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Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses : The Origins of Reference Groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction : Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Educational Attainment Across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...

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Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada

Akee, Randall - 2017

In this paper we use confidential-use Census and administrative data to produce the first national estimates of excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We identify mortality rates at least twice the...

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