The personal experience of events such as financial crises and natural disasters can alter economic preferences. We administered a repeated cross-sectional preference survey during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, collecting three bi-weekly samples from participants recruited through...

We investigated the effect of large changes in financial incentives on the process of decision-making by measuring autonomic arousal and visual attention during an incentivized lottery-choice task. High real stakes were accompanied by increased risk aversion and physiological arousal, and by...

We survey Chinese adults, many of whom experienced the send-down movement as adolescents, to identify the impact of forced rustication on economic preferences. To distinguish the effect of being sent down from the effects of confounding factors corre- lated with the likelihood of send-down and...