We use retail scanner data on purchases of high calorie food to study the link between recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) and consumption of high calorie food. To do this we exploit differences in the timing of introduction of marijuana laws among states and find that they are complements....

We explore whether national economic prosperity enhances mutual generalized trust. This is done using panel data of multiple waves of the World Values Surveys, whereby national income levels are instrumented for using exogenous oil price shocks. We find significant and substantial effects of...

We provide empirical evidence that supports a causal link from education to risk attitudes when using representative data from surveys and artefactual experiments in Lima, Peru. On the one hand, when using three standard experimental measures of risk attitudes we find that they are positively...