See it to believe it. Experimental evidence on status consumption among the youth

We performed a field experiment in Uruguay in which a 20-year-old chooses between a socially visible and a non-socially visible good after a friend randomly received one of these goods or an unknown one. We find no differences in choices when the friend received the nonvisible good instead of the un...

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Main Author:	Alves, Guillermo (author)
Other Authors:	Leites, Martín (author), Salas, Gonzalo (author)
Format:	article
Language:	English
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Consumption Status goods Field experiment ECONOMIA DEL CONSUMIDOR INGRESOS
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/51616 https://doi.org/10.1017/eec.2024.15
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