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Who cares about relative status? A quantile approach to consumption of relative house size

Susane LeguizamonDepartment of Economics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 307-312 | Published online: 03 Dec 2015

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