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英文文献：Blood for Social Status: Preliminary Evidence from Rural China-社会地位的血液:来自中国农村的初步证据
英文文献作者：Chen, Xi,Zhang, Xiaobo
英文文献摘要：
Evidence from developing countries has shown that relative concern matters for wellbeing. Overconsumption of positional goods due to status seeking contributes to an overall loss of welfare. Rural western China serves as an ideal destination to observe relative concern and induced social phenomenon. In Guizhou province, the negative effect of positional spending is even more intense when households living close to subsistence are compelled to donate blood to keep up with the Jones. Utilizing a census-type household survey data in 26 natural villages in rural Guizhou, we find that poverty leads to blood donation, especially through differentiated poverty depth. Meanwhile, social status seeking is intensified through income inequality, relative deprivation, and positional spending within a reference group, which renders more blood donation participation and at a higher level. The intensified blood donation is more saliently induced by relative deprivation than by income inequality, suggesting that further attention should be paid to what the most suitable inequality measure is in policy design or evaluation. The result is robust to different measures of relative deprivation. Further, the herd effect of blood donation exists, suggesting weak agents in making blood donation decisions. Interestingly, shortly after shocks such as unanticipated gift giving expenditure and livestock death, people are more likely to donate blood, while they generally do not engage in blood donation to cover anticipated large social expenditure such as house building and wedding.
来自发展中国家的证据表明，相对关注关系到福祉。由于追求地位而过度消费地位商品会导致福利的整体损失。西部农村是观察相关关怀和诱发社会现象的理想场所。在贵州省，当接近温存的家庭被迫献血以跟上琼斯一家的步伐时，位置支出的负面影响甚至更为强烈。利用贵州农村26个自然村的人口普查分户调查数据，我们发现贫困导致了献血，特别是通过贫困深度的分化。同时，在参照群体内，通过收入不平等、相对剥夺和地位支出，强化了社会地位追求，使得更多的献血参与率和献血参与率更高。献血强度的增加更多是由相对剥夺而不是收入不平等引起的，这表明在政策设计或评估中应进一步关注哪种最合适的不平等措施。对于不同的相对贫困衡量标准，这个结果是稳健的。此外，献血存在羊群效应，表明在献血决策中作用较弱。有趣的是，在意外送礼支出和牲畜死亡等冲击发生后不久，人们更有可能献血，但他们一般不会为了支付房屋建设和婚礼等预期的大笔社会支出而献血。
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