Saving Rates and Poverty: The Role of Conspicuous Consumption and Human Capital†

  1. Omer Moav and 1,
  2. Zvika Neeman2

Article first published online: 9 MAR 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02516.x

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The Economic Journal

The Economic Journal

Volume 122, Issue 563, pages 933–956, September 2012

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Moav and , O. and Neeman, Z. (2012), Saving Rates and Poverty: The Role of Conspicuous Consumption and Human Capital. The Economic Journal, 122: 933–956. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02516.x

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  1. 1

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Royal Holloway University of London, and CEPR

  2. 2

    Tel-Aviv University

  1. †

     Corresponding author: Omer Moav, Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. E-mail: omer.moav@huji.ac.il

  2. The authors are grateful for comments from participants at seminars in ANU, Auckland, Boston University, Brown, City University London, Harvard/MIT, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Helsinki Center of Economic Research, Royal Holloway University of London, University of Bristol, University of Copenhagen and Universitat Zurich, as well as conference participants at SMYE 2008, Lille; ESSIM, Tarragona 2008; Intergenerational Economic Mobility, Edinburgh, June 2008; Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe, Amsterdam, October 2008; NBER Summer Institute 2009; EEA-ESEM, Barcelona 2009; Israeli Economic Association Meetings, June 2010; Behavioral Economics, The Yoram Ben-Porath Fund, Jerusalem, June 2010, The IDC Workshop, Herzelia, December 2010. Abhijit Banerjee, Alexander Danzer, Raquel Fernandez, Oded Galor, Frederic Jouneau, Johan Lagerlof, Victor Lavy, Joram Mayshar, Dilip Mookherjee, Yona Rubinstein, Avichai Snir, David Weil and Itzhak Zilcha all provided useful comments. The authors are grateful to Diana Egerton-Warburton for many valuable comments and discussions.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 SEP 2012
  2. Article first published online: 9 MAR 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 12 JAN 2012 03:13PM EST
  4. Submitted: 8 November 2010 Accepted: 5 November 2011

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