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 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 …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …