Positional spending and status seeking in rural China

Focusing on a remote area in rural China, we use a panel census of households in 26 villages to show that socially observable spending has risen sharply in recent years. We demonstrate that such spending by households is highly sensitive to social spending by other villagers. This suggests that soci...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Brown, Philip H., Bulte, Erwin, Zhang, Xiaobo
Format:	Artículo preliminar
Language:	Inglés
Published:	International Food Policy Research Institute 2010
Subjects:	spending poverty households microeconomics
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154771