Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study

In general, children and adults consumption behaviour is analysed within the household decision-making process. This paper, however, explores children and adults consumption behavior contemplating children and adults as two separated and independent economic agents. By using a field study that invol...

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Autores principales: Farreras, Verónica, Salvador, Pablo
Formato: article Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/9160
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Consumidores
Niños
Adulto
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Consumidores
Niños
Adulto
Farreras, Verónica
Salvador, Pablo
Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
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Consumidores
Niños
Adulto
description In general, children and adults consumption behaviour is analysed within the household decision-making process. This paper, however, explores children and adults consumption behavior contemplating children and adults as two separated and independent economic agents. By using a field study that involves observation in the Spain’s Barcelona zoo, we show that children have some form of preferences that differs from that of the adults, leading to different consumption behavior between adults and children. This finding reinforces the idea that children play an important role as economic decision makers and consumers
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title Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title_short Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title_full Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title_fullStr Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title_full_unstemmed Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
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