Whether they’re in the classroom or the cafeteria or on the playground, kids find opportunities to trade. And although this finding may not surprise you, it runs counter to a lot of what experts have learned about children’s commitment to fairness and equality.
Author Archives: Margaret Eichelbarger/University of Chicago
Margaret Echelbarger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Decision Research (https://research.chicagobooth.edu/cdr) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Working with both children and adults, her research examines the origins and developmental course of key economic behaviors (e.g., determining how much something is worth, trading) as well as how social norms shape our interactions with others inside market contexts and across the lifespan. Her work has been published in outlets such as: Child Development, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan.