How does the experience of economic shocks affect individuals' political views and voting
behavior? Inspired partly by the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, research on this …

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 …

As large language models (LLMs) like GPT become increasingly prevalent, it is essential
that we assess their capabilities beyond language processing. This paper examines the …

Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development but is often in conflict
with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using …

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 …

I exploit a natural experiment in Indian schools to study how being integrated with poor
students affects the social behaviors and academic outcomes of rich students. Using …

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their
fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences …

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 …

We estimate the impact of Kenya's postelection crisis on individual risk preferences. The
crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating …

INTRODUCTION Distributional preferences shape individual opinions and public policy
concerning economic inequality and redistribution. We measured the distributional …