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: Artículo
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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author Farreras, Verónica
Salvador, Pablo
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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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spelling uncu-91602017-09-12T23:05:35Z Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study Farreras, Verónica Salvador, Pablo Consumo Consumidores Niños Adulto 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 Fil: Farreras, Verónica. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Fil: Salvador, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas 6989 Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Año LX, No. 129 Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Año LX, No. 129 2011-12-03 eng Inglés http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/9158 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/ article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/9160
spellingShingle Consumo
Consumidores
Niños
Adulto
Farreras, Verónica
Salvador, Pablo
Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title 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
title_short Behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
title_sort behavioural differences in consumption of children and adults : a field study
topic Consumo
Consumidores
Niños
Adulto
url http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/9160