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Conspicuous consumption and peer-group inequality : the role of preferences
Harriger-Lin, Jessica; Khanna, Neha; Pape, Andreas - In: Journal of economic inequality 18 (2020) 3, pp. 365-389
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Status seeking behavior of the poor : a study on India
Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - 2018
relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption … developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the …
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Consumption inequality during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Garner, Thesia Isedora; Matsumoto, Brett; Schild, Jake - 2024
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Uncertainty, inequality and consumption preferences in urban China
Zhou, Jingkui - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 308-322
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Representing consumption and saving without a representative consumer
Carroll, Chris - 2014
The Great Recession confirmed a bedrock principle of modern consumption theory: It is impossible to explain aggregate spending behavior without knowledge of the underlying microeconomic distribution of circumstances and choices across households. National accounting frameworks therefore need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384355
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Relative concerns for consumption at the top : an intertemporal analysis for the UK
Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2014
inequality or relatively high population density. Households whose head has relatively low educational attainment are also …
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A network approach to consumption
Schulz, Jan; Mayerhoffer, Daniel M. - 2021
The nexus between debt and inequality has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the wake of the global … financial crisis. One prominent candidate to explain the striking co-evolution of income inequality and private debt in this …
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Mapping educational disparities in life-cycle consumption
Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022
This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...
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Targeted interventions : consumption dynamics and distributional effects
Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Mishra, Abinash; Mohaghegh, Mohsen - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794484
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Borrowing to keep up (with the joneses) : inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption
Banuri, Sheheryar; Nguyen, Ha - 2020
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 … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …
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