Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Hernandez-Nunez, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the potential welfare cost of relative rank considerations using a series of vignettes and lab-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are perceived as more likely to be sidelined from...