Aging and preferences

Uwe Sunde; Thomas Dohmen

doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.03.010

Aging and preferences

Uwe Sunde^*, Thomas Dohmen

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Macro, International & Labour Economics

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Abstract

The effect of aging on economic preferences has not received much attention in the literature. This article surveys some recent results on how aging affects preferences and attitudes, exemplified by the attitudes towards risk, as well as on the mechanisms through which this happens.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-68
Journal	The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.03.010
Publication status	Published - Apr 2016

Keywords

Aging
Preferences
Risk attitudes
Cognition

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