Peer effects, risk pooling, and status seeking: What explains gift spending escalation in rural China?
It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling—based on a census-type primary household survey in three...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2011
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154747 |
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