This paper examines systematically the attitude towards compound lottery by introducing three variants of symmetric uniform mean-preserving spread into stage-1 risk in a choice-based experimental setting. We do not observe consistent aversion to mean-preserving spread in the stage-1 risk. More...

This study examines whether competitive experience affects gender difference in the economic preference and academic performance. By utilizing the provincial differences in college admission rates as an indication of competitive experience for students, we assess the effects on risk preference,...

This paper examines how female and male examination performance are differentially affected by the degree of competitive pressure faced. Our setting is China's National College Entrance Exam (Gaokao) which is widely regarded as the world's most competitive exam. We show that compared to male...

This paper investigates the effect of work interruption on workers' subsequent productivity. We employ a data set of individual productivity and machine conditions, in which each worker faces the chance, on a daily basis, that her machine will break down randomly. Our analysis finds that...

In the stylized design of Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), subjects choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme after performing under both schemes. We examine whether the well-replicated gender difference in competitiveness elicited using this design may be influenced by the visceral...

We run an experiment designed to elicit preferences over state contingent, timed payouts. We analyze the data using a new revealed preference method (building on Nishimura, Ok, and Quah (2017)) that can test for consistency with utility functions that increase with a given preorder. Using this...

Decision making under uncertainty depends not only on the likelihoods but also on the sources of uncertainty in terms of the degree of ambiguity, competence, and familiarity. This study goes beyond valuation experiments to examine the source dependence in the setting of gift exchange. We...

We propose a nonparametric revealed preference test to identify heterogeneity in risk preference. Our method is simple and applicable to choice environments with revealed preference features. We further develop two measures of preference heterogeneity at both the individual and group levels, and...

The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused school closures in most countries, affecting over 90% of the world’s student population. School closures can widen learning inequalities and disproportionately hurt vulnerable students. We collected data on the exam scores of...