Aging and preferences

Uwe Sunde and Thomas Dohmen

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, vol. 7, issue C, 64-68

Abstract: The effect of aging on economic preferences has not received much attention in the literature. This article surveys some recent results on how aging affects preferences and attitudes, exemplified by the attitudes towards risk, as well as on the mechanisms through which this happens.

Keywords: Aging; Preferences; Risk attitudes; Cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.03.010

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