Arbeitspapier
Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments
Previous research suggests a lower degree of positional concerns among people from poor countries. Yet the evidence is limited and most often builds on the assumption that people's reference groups are the same across all individuals. We conduct a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is modified to include multiplicity of reference groups. We estimate positional concerns considering various reference groups to test whether the low positional concerns found in the literature is due to misspecification of the reference groups. The results show a low degree of positional concern which is highly stable across different reference groups.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8215
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Welfare Economics: General
Design of Experiments: General
- Thema
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reference groups
income comparison
experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Akay, Alpaslan
Andersson, Lisa
Martinsson, Peter
Medhin, Haileselassie
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Akay, Alpaslan
- Andersson, Lisa
- Martinsson, Peter
- Medhin, Haileselassie
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2014
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