Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society?

Fredrik Carlsson (), Pham Khanh Nam (), Linde-Rahr, Martin () and Peter Martinsson
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Pham Khanh Nam: Faculty of Development Economics, University of Economics, Postal: HCMC, 1A Hoang Dieu, Phu Nhuan,, Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
Linde-Rahr, Martin: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 405 30 GÖTEBORG

No 165, Working Papers in Economics from Göteborg University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable studies in Western countries. Possible explanations are the emphasis on the importance of equality and that villagers are very concerned with how the local community perceives their actions. We also investigate what influences the concern for relative position and find, among other things, that if anyone from the household is a member of the Peoples Committee then the respondent is more concerned with the relative position.

Keywords: Relative income; positionality; experiments; Vietnam; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-03-16
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Published in Journal of Development Studies, 2007, pages 1177-1188.

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