Conspicuous Consumption and Race

By K. K. Charles, Erik G. Hurst, Nikolai L. Roussanov. 2009

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Social Image and Economic Behavior in the Field: Identifying, Understanding and Shaping Social Pressure (2017, background): “For example, Charles et al. (2009) find that minority households in the U.S. devote a larger share of their budget to visible goods than otherwise comparable white households, consistent with lower income households trying to signal a high economic type.”
Conspicuous consumption and “race”: Evidence from South Africa ☆ (2010, methodology): “In a recent study Charles, Hurst, and Roussanov (2009) explore such a particularity as they empirically access the differences in spending on conspicuous consumption across races.”
The Compensatory Consumer Behavior Model: How self-discrepancies drive consumer behavior (2017, neutral): “For instance, Charles et al. (2009) reported that disadvantaged socioeconomic and racial groups spent a larger percentage of their income than other demographic groups on conspicuous goods such as jewelry and cars (but not on nonvisible items), presumably to counteract the perception of low status.”
The rise of inconspicuous consumption (2015, background): “One clue can be found in a study by Charles, Hurst, and Roussanov (2007).”
A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities (2011, neutral): “In an unpublished robustness appendix (available at the Quarterly Journal of Economics Web site, http://qie.oxfordjournals.org/), Charles et al. (2009) conduct an online survey among graduate students, which is “very much inspired by” our survey.”
The Experience versus the Expectations of Power: A Recipe for Altering the Effects of Power on Behavior (2014, background): “And, the very idea that status is a signal of power is why people have postulated that low power people seek status (e.g., Charles, Hurst, and Roussanov 2009; Rucker and Galinsky 2008).”
Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure* (2009, neutral): “Charles et al. (2009) have found evidence of this.”
Trickle-Down Consumption (2016, neutral): “…income levels varies in a systematic way with the visibility of consumption categories.11 We previously described our 15 consumption categories, starting from Heffetz’s (2011) assignment of a visibility score to 31 consumption categories, and collapsing to the categories of Charles et al. (2009).”
Household Debt and Social Interactions (2012, background): “Charles, Hurst, and Roussanov (2009) show that the desire to signal status can explain why minority races in the U.S. tend to spend larger fractions of their budgets on conspicuous consumption than whites with similar permanent incomes.”