We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented demands on health care workers. This will likely have fundamental and lasting impacts on preferences to work in the medical profession. We examine the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical occupation preferences, focusing on...

We study the intergeneration transmission of physicians' economic preferences by examining the risk and altruistic preferences of medical students and one of their parents with incentivized experiments. We find that altruistic parents are more likely to raise altruistic children who are also...

We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...