Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free
riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a …

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 …

It is ultimately an empirical question whether risk preferences are stable over time. The
evidence comes from diverse strands of literature, covering the stability of risk preferences in …

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and
behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to …

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that
culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific …

Does political violence leave a lasting legacy on identities, attitudes, and behaviors? We
argue that violence shapes the identities of victims and that families transmit these effects …

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in
Afghanistan combining:(i) a two-part experimental procedure identifying risk preferences …

We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World
War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland …

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural
disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of …

Amid mounting fears of violent Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim
immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. In a groundbreaking …