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Record W3123436425

Relative Wealth, Status Seeking, and Catching Up

2002· preprint· en· W3123436425 on OpenAlexaff
Ngo Van Long, Koji Shimomura

Bibliographic record

VenueRePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2002
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic theories and models
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDistribution (mathematics)EconomicsFunction (biology)HumanitiesMathematicsPhilosophyMathematical analysis
DOInot available

Abstract

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We show that, if relative wealth appears in the utility function, for example due to status seeking, then under certain conditions on the curvature of the utility function and the production function, the poor will eventually catch up with the rich. We give sufficient conditions for the final distribution of wealth to be independent of the initial distribution, and conditions for saddlepoint stability in a two-class model. Nous démontrons que si l'utilité est une fonction de la richesse relative, peut-être à cause de la recherche du standing, alors, sous certaines hypothèses concernant la courbature de la fonction d'utilité et de la fonction de production, les gens pauvres peuvent rattraper les gens riches. Nous donnons des conditions suffisantes pour que la distribution de richesse finale soit indépendante de la distribution initiale, ainsi que les conditions suffisantes pour la stabilité au sens du point de selle.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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