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Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic ImplicationsOri HeffetzCornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management Robert H. FrankCornell University - Department of Economics July 2008 HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew Jackson, eds., Elsevier, Forthcoming Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #05-09 Abstract: This chapter was prepared for Elsevier's Handbook of Social Economics (edited by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, and Matthew Jackson). It brings together some of the recent empirical and experimental evidence regarding preferences for social status. While briefly reviewing evidence from different literatures that is consistent with the existence of preferences for status, we pay special attention to experimental work that attempts to study status directly by inducing it in the lab. Finally, we discuss some economic implications.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 38 Keywords: preferences for status, positional concerns, subjective well-being, conspicuous consumption, positional externalities, relative income, status experiments JEL Classification: C90, D01, D1, D62, Z10, Z13 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: July 4, 2008 ; Last revised: January 25, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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