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This paper investigates whether the consumption of rich households provides a reference point in the consumption choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the Euler equation implied by a life-cycle model...
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new … neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …
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