Blue Porches: Finding the limits of external validity of the endowment effect

Gharad Bryan; Matthew Grant; Kareem Haggag; Dean Karlan; Meredith Startz; Christopher Udry

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2020.05.013

Blue Porches: Finding the limits of external validity of the endowment effect

Gharad Bryan, Matthew Grant, Kareem Haggag, Dean Karlan^*, Meredith Startz, Christopher Udry

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Abstract

We test whether the endowment effect holds in an experiment conducted with children during Halloween trick-or-treating. We do not find evidence of the endowment effect in this context and with this experimental protocol.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	269-271
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	176
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.05.013
State	Published - Aug 2020

Keywords

Endowment effect
External validity
Halloween

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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