Research papers: (if you experience download problems, please email me.)
Forthcoming:
How Large Are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand? (March, 2009), with Moses Shayo.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1133342
Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications (July, 2008), with Robert H. Frank.
Handbook of Social Economics, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew Jackson, eds., Elsevier, Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1155422
Working Papers:
A Test of Conspicuous Consumption: Visibility and Income Elasticities (March, 2009).
Under review, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004543
An older version circulated under the title Conspicuous Consumption and Expenditure Visibility: Measurement and Application. It is available here.
Cobb-Douglas Utility With Nonlinear Engel Curves in a Conspicuous Consumption Model (August, 2007).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004544
The above two papers are based on the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, Conspicuous Consumption and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (Princeton University, 2004). The first paper updates the empirical analysis, the second details the model. The original chapter—with more discussions, but less (and now redundant) empirics—is available here.
Who Sees What? Demographics and the Visibility of Consumer Expenditures (August, 2007).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004545
The First Meaning of Consumption Conference we organized at Cornell, August 2008.