Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional concerns are positively correlated with absolute level of income of a country.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Akay, Alpaslan ; Martinsson, Peter ; Medhin, Haileselassie
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Sozialer Status \| Meinung \| Einkommensverteilung \| Landwirtschaft \| Ländlicher Raum \| Äthiopien \| Ethiopia \| positional concern \| relative income

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 4354
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	61022347X [GVK] hdl:10419/36276 [Handle]
Classification:	C90 - Design of Experiments. General ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	EconStor

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