for a pandemic disease outbreak relative to an environmental disaster risk (e.g., Fukushima) or a terrorist attack (e …Will a major shock awaken US citizens to the threat of catastrophic pandemic risk? Using a natural experiment ….g., 9/11). After the Ebola scare, the average citizen did not over-react to the risk. This flat reaction was unexpected …

the same level as preventing deaths from traffic accidents, which pose greater personal risk. Education, seat belt usage … pairwise risk-risk tradeoff choices. Even after taking into account differences in respondent risk beliefs, the nationally … representative sample values preventing terrorism deaths almost twice as highly as preventing natural disaster deaths and at about …