Aging and preferences

Uwe Sunde and Thomas Dohmen

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

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. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Date: 2016
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Published in Journal of the Economics of Ageing 7(2016): pp. 64-68

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