TY - JOUR
T1 - Who sees what? Demographics and the visibility of consumer expenditures
AU - Heffetz, Ori
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - A growing body of work on social phenomena (like status, peer effects, social comparisons and fashion) rests on assumptions regarding the social observability of consumption activities. The present paper provides new empirical evidence for assessing such assumptions. We analyze data from a unique visibility survey, designed to quantify the relative " cultural" visibility of different consumer expenditures among US households. We investigate the relationship between respondents' demographics and the expenditures they perceive as visible. We discuss implications for existing and future work.
AB - A growing body of work on social phenomena (like status, peer effects, social comparisons and fashion) rests on assumptions regarding the social observability of consumption activities. The present paper provides new empirical evidence for assessing such assumptions. We analyze data from a unique visibility survey, designed to quantify the relative " cultural" visibility of different consumer expenditures among US households. We investigate the relationship between respondents' demographics and the expenditures they perceive as visible. We discuss implications for existing and future work.
KW - Conspicuous consumption
KW - Expenditure observability
KW - Expenditure visibility
KW - Survey data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859027648&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.joep.2012.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.joep.2012.02.005
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AN - SCOPUS:84859027648
SN - 0167-4870
VL - 33
SP - 801
EP - 818
JO - Journal of Economic Psychology
JF - Journal of Economic Psychology
IS - 4
ER -