Many applied economic settings involve trade-offs between in-group members and
strangers. To better understand decision making in these contexts, this paper measures and …

We examine how 17 behavioural biases relate to each other, to three standard measures of
risk and time preferences, to cognitive skills, personality, and demographics, and to …

This article studies the relationship between patience and comparative development
through a combination of reduced-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a …

Climate mitigation constitutes an intergenerational moral dilemma; the decisions we make
today will inevitably shape the prospects for generations to come. Yet, we still know little …

Tax designation has been a popular attribute of the tax plans in a rising number of countries,
yet evidence of its effects on tax compliance remains scarce. We conduct an online …

In this chapter, we discuss household decision-making processes and the extent to which
the standard (neoclassical) properties of demand hold up in more complex household …

Social scientists often consider temporal stability when assessing the usefulness of a
construct and its measures, but whether behavioral biases display such stability is relatively …

We experimentally investigate the link between individuals' value on future incomes and
their support for redistributive policies today. The investigation identifies time preferences as …

Do members of a majority group systematically shift punishment onto innocent members of
an ethnic minority? We introduce an experimental paradigm, punishing the scapegoat …

This paper examines the effects of shocks on temporal stability of risk and time preferences
of rural households within a developing country context characterized by frequent droughts …