Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

Robert T. Jensen, Nolan H. Miller

NBER Working Paper No. 13243
Issued in July 2007

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We would like to thank Alberto Abadie, Chris Avery, Sebastian Bauhoff, Amitabh Chandra, Suzanne Cooper, Daniel Hojman, Brian Jacob, Elizabeth Lacey, Erzo Luttmer, Mai Nguyen, Albert Park, Rodrigo Wagner, Sangui Wang, and Richard Zeckhauser for valuable discussions, and Frank Mou, Dulles Wang and Fan Zhang for research assistance. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Institute of Aging, the William F. Milton Fund at Harvard Medical School, the Dean's Research Fund at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and the Hefner China Fund. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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