In Chinese culture, the zodiac year of one’s birth is often associated with bad luck. This astrological superstition dates back more than two thousand years and is still prevalent in modern Chinese society. Using novel experimental techniques, we find evidence suggesting that people in China...

In recent years, the impacts of climate change and socioeconomic development on the water-energy-food nexus have been a hot topic. Forecasting future food and energy production and water withdrawal trends under a range of climate and socio-economic scenarios is a critical step for formulating...

Superstition has a wide range of impacts on economic decisions such as investment, career choice and insurance purchase. Taking the Chinese zodiac year as an example, we apply experimental methods to study two important channels through which superstition affects subjects’ economic decisions....