Discussion paper

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

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

18 May 2020

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.

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Citation

Bryan, G, M Grant, K Haggag, D Karlan, M Startz and C Udry (2020), ‘DP14772 Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 14772. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp14772