Stability of experimental and survey measures of risk, time, and social preferences: A review and some new results

Y Chuang, L Schechter - Journal of development economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Underlying preferences are often considered to be persistent, and are important inputs into
economic models. We first conduct an extensive review of the disparate literature studying …

Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic

HF Chan, A Skali, DA Savage, D Stadelmann… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Behavioural responses to pandemics are less shaped by actual mortality or hospitalisation
risks than they are by risk attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of …

Protective measures against COVID-19 and the business strategies of the retail enterprises: Differences in gender, age, education, and income among shoppers

EN Untaru, H Han - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study sought to develop a conceptual framework to explain the influence of
protective measures adopted by the retail enterprises against the COVID-19 virus on …

Do risk preferences change? evidence from the great east japan earthquake

C Hanaoka, H Shigeoka, Y Watanabe - American Economic Journal …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural
disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of …

CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk

Y Chen, Q Fan, X Yang, L Zolotoy - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the impact of CEO early-life disaster experience on stock price crash risk. Using a
longitudinal sample of US firms, we document that firms led by CEOs with early-life disaster …

Natural disasters, social protection, and risk perceptions

P Brown, AJ Daigneault, E Tjernström, W Zou - World development, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural disasters give rise to loss and damage and may affect subjective expectations about
the prevalence and severity of future disasters. These expectations might then in turn shape …

How the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic impacted pro-social behaviour and individual preferences: Experimental evidence from China

J Shachat, MJ Walker, L Wei - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present experimental evidence on how pro-sociality, trust and attitudes towards risk and
ambiguity evolved over the six weeks following the imposition of stringent Covid-19 related …

Violence, psychological trauma, and risk attitudes: Evidence from victims of violence in Colombia

A Moya - Journal of Development Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Traumatic experiences can alter individuals' behavior and deplete their ability to make
economic decisions. In this article, I analyze the effects of violence on risk attitudes. For this …

On the stability of risk and time preferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic

AC Drichoutis, RM Nayga Jr - Experimental Economics, 2022 - Springer
We elicited incentivized measures of risk and time preferences from a sample of
undergraduate students in Athens, Greece, in waves that preceded and overlapped with the …

Heterogeneity in risk-taking during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK lockdown

B Guenther, MM Galizzi, JG Sanders - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In two pre-registered online studies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the early 2020
lockdown (one of which with a UK representative sample) we elicit risk-tolerance for 1,254 …