Who sees what? Demographics and the visibility of consumer expenditures
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Keywords
Expenditure visibility; Expenditure observability; Conspicuous consumption; Survey data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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