Behavioral Economics: Week 6

Topic: Lottery Choice Lab, The Endowment Effect in Greater Detail and Framing

Week 6 Required Readings and Videos:

TUESDAY: Lottery Choice Lab. Bring some kind of a computing device to class on Tuesday.

Risk and Lottery Choice

Lab Experiments: Simple Lottery Choice, Read AFTER Tuesday: Holt Chapter 4

Lottery Choice Anomalies, Read AFTER Thursday: Holt Chapter 7

THURSDAY: The Endowment Effect in Greater Detail

Readings: The Endowment Effects and Chimps

The Endowment Effects in Capuchin Monkeys

The Endowment Effect in Children

Powerpoint: Endowment Effect and The Endowment Effect the Wild

Endowment Effect in the Wild, Continued

Results of Class Experiment: Endowment Effect

Videos & Blogs: Age and Framing, Attitudes toward risk and the housing market (4 minutes)

 

More Readings Just for your pleasure:

Are children more risk averse?

Are women more risk averse?