Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses)

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Tác giả: Sheheryar Banuri

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 025.6 Circulation services

Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020

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Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 320586

The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous consumption. It reports three main findings: First, consumption increases when it is "conspicuous" (i.e. is both observable, and signals ability/status). Second, borrowing increases when consumption is conspicuous. More critically, this increase in loan-taking is driven by those at the bottom of the income distribution. Third, in the presence of conspicuous consumption, access to finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing.
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