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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? : evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … country. -- Ethiopia ; positional concern ; relative income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884087

Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655

Does relative income matter for the very poor? : evidence from rural ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan (contributor); Martinsson, Peter (contributor) - 2008

cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771936

Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor : evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...