The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how … people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people … overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while underestimating the risk old people face. We show that the availability …

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National … risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several empirical strategies, including an instrumental variable approach. In … particular, we find that risk-taking among teams with a male head coach is 5 percentage points greater than that in teams with a …

We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology … additional reluctance to participate in a mixed domain lottery beyond that predicted by risk aversion. We show that only …