my main field of research is on the topic of social status and often when
you bring up where status
people especially academics will say is that they just the same thing is quality
is the gesture really old scale
and the answer is no so let's imagine that your own form
and you happen to be of chicken form
who also has the ability to have to hand genetically identical chickens for all problems
of each other and therefore there's their growing up in the pen their equal and
underlined while because the claw
and then imagine that be relatively early on their some winter the some rain that
allows some chickens to advantage over the chickens and attacking order
and that pecking order where one chicken packs on
a chicken who in turn packs and lots of chickens
that's the basis for status and so because of that status ordering among the chickens
some will eventually get access to better water let's say two or more two more
water to better food and ultimately we can imagine some differences in quality
amongst feature
but this is all because of status and not because of some initial difference in
quality so status and quality are actually different from each other so on the research
side that simple example really doesn't by the question
whether modeling performance as a kind of iterations or as those we use econometrics models
should we be including a measure of status independent of skilled human capital
i'm looking at here affects
in contest for status using data on us news and we report ranking sort of
colleges
and of university
when your peers to schools that are competitors of your do better in terms of
attracting higher quality students have high sat scores does that cause you to do worse
in your feature ranking word is spar you should do better than other words is
the is the effect of appear school a couple a competition of fact
boris it can page an effect that's the main thing that we're looking at now
i think one of the most intriguing aspects of other research that have been doing
on status and this is with young cue him from korea university and that's made
from the university of michigan is that status has a dark side to it can
be
somewhat corrupting
and this is a finding that's in contrast to much of the recent work on
status which basically says that status as a signal it helps us to see what
you're quality is even if we can see your quality and it's also a resource
seven that's gonna help you this research suggests that as you get very high and
status
you will broke complacent and you will also become distracted
and it's got some interesting ethical implications in the sense that it does indicate that
people will acquire status have to be good stewards of the status they get
be slowly a corrupted maple easy via nor the can they or should they allow
themselves to be diverted by all the people one piece of them not they've got
their status