This paper examines the role of future and social orientation in explaining cooperation in a social dilemma. In the Netherlands, the COVID-19 pandemic raised an acute social dilemma where citizens could decide whether to comply with the precautionary measures recommended by the government....

This paper studies intertemporal social preferences. We introduce intertemporal dictator and ultimatum games where players decide on the timing of monetary payoffs. The setting is twodimensional rather than one-dimensional, in the sense that inequalities can arise in the time as well as in the...

In this paper, we examine the role of intertemporal and social preferences in explaining cooperation in social dilemmas. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic caused an acute social dilemma in the Netherlands. In this dilemma, citizens had to decide whether or not to comply with the personal measures...

The time tradeoff (TTO) method is popular in medical decision making for valuing health states. We use it to elicit economists' preferences for publishing in top economic journals and living without limbs. The economists value the journals highly, and have a clear preference between them, with...

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment...