-taking is driven by those at the bottom of the income distribution. Third, in the presence of conspicuous consumption, access to …The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous …

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely …-effective suggestions for designing survey modules to yield the most accurate measurements of consumption well-being, and offers new …

. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … novel survey for Senegal in which consumption data were collected at a disaggregated level, this paper quantifies these … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the …

surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the … consumption measures remains an unmet challenge …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … transfers to poor households, seem to have played an important role in driving these results by bolstering income growth among …