This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual attractiveness. In three between-subject conditions, the assigned other … subject is either of higher, lower or equal status. The incidence of electric shocks is substantially higher among subjects …

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual attractiveness. In three between-subject conditions, the assigned other … subject is either of higher, lower or equal status. The incidence of electric shocks is substantially higher among subjects …

This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a … developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … patterns via status effect turns out to be statistically significant. Households in the majority of the states, under various …

status competition (e.g. Hopkins and Kornienko, 2004) since the number of within-group peers who possess a similar income …