DP14772 Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect

Author(s):	Gharad Bryan, Matthew Grant, Kareem Haggag, Dean S. Karlan, Meredith Startz, Christopher Udry
Publication Date:	May 2020
Date Revised:	May 2020
Keyword(s):	endowment effect, External Validity, Halloween
JEL(s):	B4, D12, D81, H31
Programme Areas:	Public Economics
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14772

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 experimental protocol.