This study shows that risk and time preferences are related to the severity of COVID-19 during the crisis, and they are related to economic outcomes. Using Convex Time Budgets (Andreoni and Sprenger, 2012) to simultaneously estimate risk and time preferences for 2240 individuals, we find that...

This paper introduces a new survey item to measure preferences for income redistribution. Respondents construct their preferred distribution of after-tax income by changing the tax rates of the bottom four income quintiles. Taxes for the top income quintile update automatically to keep...

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...