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Are Children Better Behaved than Adults? Age, Experience and the Endowment Effect

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Harbaugh, William
Krause, Catherine
Vesterlund, Lise

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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.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 1950.

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Date of creation: 09 Apr 2001
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Publication status: Published in Economics Letters, February 2001, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 175-181.
Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:1950

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Keywords: Endowment effect; Prospect theory; Reference dependence; Experimental economics;

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