social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status …

characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …

Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their … large. While racial differences in utility preference parameters might account for a portion of these consumption … differences, we emphasize instead a model of status seeking in which conspicuous consumption is used to reflect a household …

age-gender interactive effects. Through sibling-random and fixed effects models, we find that a one percent increase in a … occupational prestige measured 13 to 15 years later. Body mass is also associated with a reduction in a woman's likelihood of … marriage, her spouse's occupational prestige, and her spouse's earnings. However, consistent with past research, men experience …

behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional … distribution where the gender gaps are most pronounced. Accounting for the disproportionate effects of family environment on boys … at the tails substantially narrows the gender gap in high school dropout …

employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …