Endowment Effects and Loss Aversion in the Risky Investment Game
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Endowment effect; loss aversion; gender difference; risky investment game; field experiment; Ethiopia.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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