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Valuing Cultural Differences In Behavioral Economics, Justin D. Levinson, Kaiping Peng
Valuing Cultural Differences In Behavioral Economics, Justin D. Levinson, Kaiping Peng
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Behavioral economic research has tended to ignore the role of cultural differences in economic decision-making. The authors suggest that a systematic bias affects existing behavioral economic theory-- cognitive biases are often assumed to be universal. To examine how cultural background informs economic decision-making, and to test framing effects, morality effects, and out-group effects in a cross-cultural study, the authors conducted an experiment in the United States and China. The experiment was designed to test cultural and cognitive effects on a fundamental economic phenomenon-- how people estimate the financial values of objects over time.
Results of the experiment demonstrated dramatic cultural …