Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay (), Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin ()
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Haileselassie Medhin: University of Gothenburg

No 4354, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: positional concern; relative income; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2009-08
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Published - revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 428 - 435

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