Cognitive Dissonance, Status and Growth of the Underclass

By Robert J. Oxoby. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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“Last-Place Aversion”: Evidence and Redistributive Implications (2014, unknown): “See Picketty and Saez (2003) on the increase in income inequality in the US over the past several decades.”
Positional spending and status seeking in rural China (2011, background): “7 Alternatively, in the tradition of Duesenberry (1949), Pollak (1976), Oxoby (2004), and others, utility functions may be augmented with a term that captures average consumption within the reference population (x ), such that the utility function is specified: ( )IpZxxxUU iiii ,;)”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “Any test of this prediction, which is highly relevant for many economic 29 A related question is treated in Oxoby (2004): what if individuals can choose the domains over which status comparisons take place? phenomena (see Section 4), will require precise observation of both the timing of income…”
Rank as an inherent incentive: Evidence from a field experiment ☆ (2012, background): “3 A few examples include Frank (1985), Ng (1987), Congleton (1989), Ireland’s (1994, 1998, and 2001), Pesendorfer’s (1995), Bagwell and Bernheim’s (1996), Oxoby (2004), Piccione and Rubinstein’s (2008), and Rayo and Becker (2007).”
Identity, morals, and taboos: beliefs as assets. (2011, background): “In Rabin (1994), Konow (2000), and Oxoby (2003, 2004), agents engage in “dissonance reduction”, again represented by costly adjustments in utility parameters not tied to an information structure.”
Effects of Economic Uncertainty on Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic Context: Social Identity Disturbance, Job Uncertainty and Psychological Well-Being Model (2020, background): “One coping strategy to eliminate the distress caused by economic uncertainty is concerned with maintaining a specific self-assessment belief, such as rendering sills one does not possess irrelevant or stressing the value of traits one has (Oxoby, 2004; Rabin 1994).”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “Any test of this prediction, which is highly relevant for many economic 17 A related question is treated in Oxoby (2004): what if individuals can choose the domains over which status comparisons take place?”