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 …

this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …