Journal Article

Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Author(s)

Dean Karlan

Gharad Bryan

Matthew Grant

Kareem Haggag

Meredith Startz

Christopher Udry

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.
Date Published: 2020
Citations: Karlan, Dean, Gharad Bryan, Matthew Grant, Kareem Haggag, Meredith Startz, Christopher Udry. 2020. Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 269-271.
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