Are Children Better Behaved Than Adults? Age, Experience and the Endowment Effect
William Harbaugh (wtharbaugh@gmail.com),
Catherine Krause and
Lise Vesterlund
Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics
Abstract:
We find that large increases in age do not reduce the endowment effect, supporting the hypothesis that people have reference-dependent preferences which are not changed by repeated experience getting and giving up goods.
Date: 2001-02-01
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Published in Economics Letters, February 2001, vol. 70 no. 2, pp. 175-181
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