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 …

are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical … the issues confounding previous analyses of the links between risk preferences and well-being. Our sample includes more …, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …

real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the … experiment, we survey potential participants for their organizational preferences. At the experiment, we randomly assign workers …

supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average …