Add to ORKGIn presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of the assumption of imperfect capital market. The paper attempts to integrate various strands of literature on status effects
Item does not contain fulltextThis book investigates the scope, nature, and welfare effects of statu...
This thesis studies ways in which inequality between and within groups affects consumer behaviors an...
In the debate on the measurement of poverty in India, which has sometimes bordered on the acrimoniou...
In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income ba...
The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and...
We consider a situation where the relatively ‘poor’ are concerned about their relative income status...
The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated i...
This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on 'New Approaches to Measuring Pover...
Poverty, the quintessential denominator of a developing nation, has been traditionally defined again...
Using a modified deprivation (or poverty) function, in this paper, we theoretically study the change...
In this paper we examine the evidence on how dynamic mechanisms, which include earnings and income m...
We evaluate whether and how the persistence of inequality and the presence of inequality traps carry...
Even under the direst necessity, Indian households do not seem to spend their budget in a rational o...
This paper advances the hypothesis that the intensity of status preferences depends negatively on th...
The standard approach to the study of poverty assumes the existence of an ideal variable that captur...
Item does not contain fulltextThis book investigates the scope, nature, and welfare effects of statu...
This thesis studies ways in which inequality between and within groups affects consumer behaviors an...
In the debate on the measurement of poverty in India, which has sometimes bordered on the acrimoniou...
In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income ba...
The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and...
We consider a situation where the relatively ‘poor’ are concerned about their relative income status...
The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated i...
This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on 'New Approaches to Measuring Pover...
Poverty, the quintessential denominator of a developing nation, has been traditionally defined again...
Using a modified deprivation (or poverty) function, in this paper, we theoretically study the change...
In this paper we examine the evidence on how dynamic mechanisms, which include earnings and income m...
We evaluate whether and how the persistence of inequality and the presence of inequality traps carry...
Even under the direst necessity, Indian households do not seem to spend their budget in a rational o...
This paper advances the hypothesis that the intensity of status preferences depends negatively on th...
The standard approach to the study of poverty assumes the existence of an ideal variable that captur...
Item does not contain fulltextThis book investigates the scope, nature, and welfare effects of statu...
This thesis studies ways in which inequality between and within groups affects consumer behaviors an...
In the debate on the measurement of poverty in India, which has sometimes bordered on the acrimoniou...