Does Relative Position Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay (), Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

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Abstract: We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in northern Ethiopia, using a tailored two-part 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 correlated with absolute level of income of a country.

Keywords: Ethiopia; relative income; positional concern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-22
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