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Title: Robustness Appendix to Conspicuous Consumption and Race

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: This robustness appendix provides a variety of additional results and background material for our paper “Conspicuous Consumption and Race”. The data and code for all results shown in the paper and for the robustness appendix can be found online at http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/erik.hurst/research/race_and_consumption_data_page.html. The appendix is broken into six sections. In the first section, we describe and discuss results from the survey that we independently conducted to elicit individual perceptions about what consumption categories are considered “visible” (in the sense described in the main text of our paper). In Section 2, we show a series of robustness results about Black-White consumption differences using the CEX data described in the text. In particular, we explore . . .

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Authors: Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Hurst, Erik; Roussanov, Nikolai

Publisher: University of Chicago

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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