This paper presents evidence that people become more risk-averse during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this result differs between men and women. We use March 13th 2020, when President Trump declared a national state of emergency as a time anchor to separate the experiment into two periods:...

A motivating employment environment benefi ts the satisfaction, productivity and welfare of employees, and it is the key to the success of an organization. We experimentally examine the effects of employees' promises on boosting the wage and effort level in the workplace. Employees make a...

Existing experimental studies find weak support for the theoretical prediction that matching leadership giving alleviates free-riding and raises more voluntary contributions for public goods relative to seed money. However, while most experimental studies use exogenous variations of the...

Eye-tracking is becoming an increasingly popular tool for understanding the underlying behavior driving economic decisions. However, an important unanswered methodological question is whether the use of an eye-tracking device itself induces changes in the behavior of experiment participants. We...