We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare consultation to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our benchmark...

The quantitative literature on civil conflict is generally concerned with state-level risk factors. By conceptualizing the state as the unit of analysis this literature suffers from an aggregation problem in regards to its main findings, which identify mechanisms that are often only indirectly...