Do MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion?
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چکیده
We present results from a highly powered online experiment with 937 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) that examined whether MTurkers exhibit myopic loss aversion (MLA). The consisted of measuring MLA-compliant behavior in two between-subjects treatments differed only regarding the risk profile risky asset employed. found no statistically significant evidence for any profiles among full samples. However, we MLA one some sub-samples where screened-out based processing times experiment.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-7374', '0165-1765']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110137