Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Volume 182, issue C, 2021

Immigration policy and immigrants’ sleep. Evidence from DACA pp. 1-12

Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky, Fabrizio Mazzonna and Luca Stella

How to elicit distributional preferences: A stress-test of the equality equivalence test pp. 13-28

Michal Krawczyk and Fabrice Le Lec

Are general inflexible rules stable? An examination of David Hume's jurisprudence pp. 29-38

Mario J. Rizzo

Price level versus inflation targeting under heterogeneous expectations: a laboratory experiment pp. 39-82

Cars Hommes and Tomasz Makarewicz

(Im)patience by proxy: Making intertemporal decisions for others pp. 83-99

Angela C.M. de Oliveira and Sarah Jacobson

Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information pp. 100-112

Patrick W. Schmitz

Social influence and position effects pp. 113-131

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Natalia Jiménez and Dunia López-Pintado

Does haze cloud decision making? A natural laboratory experiment pp. 132-161

Soo Hong Chew, Wei Huang and Xun Li

Human capital investment and firms’ industrial emissions: Evidence and mechanism pp. 162-184

Shiyi Chen, Hong Song and Chenyu Wu

On the benefits of time-inconsistent preferences pp. 185-195

Philipp Weinschenk

Online cheating amid COVID-19 pp. 196-211

Eren Bilen and Alexander Matros

Political dynasties, term limits and female political representation: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 212-228

Julien Labonne, Sahar Parsa and Pablo Querubin

The aspirational income hypothesis: On the limits of the relative income hypothesis pp. 229-247

Elias Khalil, Jason Aimone, Daniel Houser, Siyu Wang, Deborah Martinez and Kun Qian

The Brexit policy shock: Were UK services exports affected, and when? pp. 248-263

Mustaph Douch and T. Huw Edwards

Covid-19 contagion, economic activity and business reopening protocols pp. 264-284

Alexandre Janiak, Caio Machado and Javier Turen

The paradox of innovation pp. 285-296

Andrew Sabl

An endowment effect for risk levels: Evidence from a Ugandan lab pp. 297-310

Paul Clist, D’Exelle, Ben and Arjan Verschoor

Coronavirus infections and deaths by poverty status: The effects of social distancing pp. 311-330

Juergen Jung, James Manley and Vinish Shrestha

An agent-based model of intra-day financial markets dynamics pp. 331-348

Jacopo Staccioli and Mauro Napoletano

Effects of external imbalances on GDP recovery patterns pp. 349-362

Mariam Camarero, María Dolores Gadea-Rivas, Ana Gómez-Loscos and Cecilio Tamarit

Evolutionary selection of forecasting and quantity decision rules in experimental asset markets pp. 363-404

Jiahua Zhu, Te Bao and Wai Mun Chia

The double-edged role of social learning: Flash crash and lower total volatility pp. 405-420

Hai-Chuan Xu, Wei Zhang, Xiong Xiong, Xue Wang and Wei-Xing Zhou

Term structure of interest rates: Modelling the risk premium using a two horizons framework pp. 421-436

Georges Prat and Remzi Uctum

Monetary services aggregation under uncertainty: A behavioral economics extension using Choquet expectation pp. 437-447

William Barnett, Qing Han and Jianbo Zhang

Does higher unemployment lead to greater criminality? Revisiting the debate over the business cycle pp. 448-471

Fredj Jawadi, Sushanta Mallick, Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou and Anish Augustine

Do actively managed US mutual funds produce positive alpha? pp. 472-492

Rong Huang, Keith Pilbeam and William Pouliot

Forecast heuristics, consumer expectations, and New-Keynesian macroeconomics: A Horse race pp. 493-511

Tae-Seok Jang and Stephen Sacht

On the duration of sovereign ratings cycle phases pp. 512-526

Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro and Ricardo Sousa

On the contribution of the Markowitz model of utility to explain risky choice in experimental research pp. 527-543

Konstantinos Georgalos, Ivan Paya and David Peel

Volume 181, issue C, 2021

An anatomy of East German unhappiness: The role of circumstances and mentality, 1990–2018 pp. 1-18

Philipp Biermann and Heinz Welsch

Selling “Money” on eBay: A field study of surplus division pp. 19-38

Alia Gizatulina and Olga Gorelkina

Gender and cooperative preferences pp. 39-48

Nadja C. Furtner, Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Dominik Matzat and Conny Wollbrant

Your success is my motivation pp. 49-85

Prateik Dalmia and Emel Filiz-Ozbay

Statistical discrimination when group members are aware of their stereotype: Learning from David Hume and Adam Smith pp. 86-93

David Levy

Art return rates from old master paintings to contemporary art pp. 94-116

Federico Etro and Elena Stepanova

The impact of emerging market competition on innovation and business strategy: Evidence from Canada pp. 117-134

Mu-Jeung Yang, Nicholas Li and Lorenz Kueng

Link value, market scenario and referral networks pp. 135-155

Yongli Li, Peng Luo and Paolo Pin

How upstream cooperatives limit downstream holdups pp. 156-168

Peter Bogetoft

Dynamic R&D competition under uncertainty and strategic disclosure pp. 169-210

Yangbo Song and Mofei Zhao

Nepotism, human capital and economic development pp. 211-240

Marcello Perez-Alvarez and Holger Strulik

Hayek, Cassel, and the origins of the great depression pp. 241-251

Thomas L. Hogan and Lawrence White

Are reference points merely lagged beliefs over probabilities? pp. 252-269

Ori Heffetz

Contractarianisms and markets pp. 270-287

Peter Vanderschraaf

The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing: Evidence from British cohort data pp. 290-311

Sarah Flèche, Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu and Andrew Clark

Family matters: The effects of parental unemployment in early childhood and adolescence on subjective well-being later in life pp. 312-331

Milena Nikolova and Boris N. Nikolaev

Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study pp. 332-343

Julia M. Rohrer, Martin Brümmer, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

Early life childcare and later behavioral difficulties: a causal relationship? Data from the French EDEN study pp. 344-359

Ramchandar Gomajee, Fabienne El-Khoury, Judith van der Waerden, Laura Pryor and Maria Melchior

Early-life correlates of later-life well-being: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study pp. 360-368

Andrew Clark and Tom Lee

Volume 180, issue C, 2020

Collusion, extortion and the government’s organizational structure pp. 1-23

Fuhai Hong and Zhendong Yin

Altruism or diminishing marginal utility? pp. 24-48

Romain Gauriot, Stephanie A. Heger and Robert Slonim

Can digital feedback increase employee performance and energy efficiency in firms? Evidence from a field experiment pp. 49-65

Christin Hoffmann and Kirsten Thommes

Can job rotation eliminate the Ratchet effect: Experimental evidence pp. 66-84

Chen Wei

Impacts of disability on poverty: Quasi-experimental evidence from landmine amputees in Cambodia pp. 85-107

Yoshito Takasaki

Between preferences and references: Asymmetric price elasticities and the simulation of fiscal policies pp. 108-128

Beatrice Biondi, Laura Cornelsen, Mario Mazzocchi and Richard Smith

Governance and contract choice: Theory and evidence from groundwater irrigation markets pp. 129-147

Jeffrey Michler and Steven Y. Wu

Do tightwads cheat more? Evidence from three field experiments pp. 148-158

Yossef Tobol, Erez Siniver and Gideon Yaniv

Audience effects and other-regarding preferences against corruption: Experimental evidence pp. 159-173

Aurora García-Gallego, Nikolaos Georgantzís, Tarek Jaber-López and Georgia Michailidou

Self-help groups, savings and social capital: Evidence from a field experiment in Cambodia pp. 174-200

Radu Ban, Michael J. Gilligan and Matthias Rieger

Innovation and communication media in virtual teams – An experimental study pp. 201-218

Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske and Marina Schröder

Big fish in a small pond: Locally dominant firms and the business cycle pp. 219-240

Sima Jannati, George Korniotis and Alok Kumar

Imperfect monitoring and informal insurance: The role of social ties pp. 241-256

Prachi Jain

The effect of immigration on natives’ well-being in the European Union pp. 257-274

Kelsey O'Connor

Status-seeking culture and development of capitalism pp. 275-290

Angus Chu, Haichao Fan and Xilin Wang

Uncovering the heterogeneity behind cross-cultural variation in antisocial punishment pp. 291-308

Adrian Bruhin, Kelly Janizzi and Christian Thöni

Extreme temperatures and time use in China pp. 309-324

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun

A generalization of the Bradley–Terry model for draws in chess with an application to collusion pp. 325-333

Robin K.S. Hankin

Information about average evaluations spurs cooperation: An experiment on noisy reputation systems pp. 334-356

Matthias Greiff and Fabian Paetzel

Can pre-commitment increase savings deposits? Evidence from a tax-time field experiment pp. 357-380

Stephen Roll, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Emily Gallagher and Cynthia Cryder

What’s the big idea? Multi-function products, firm scope and firm boundaries pp. 381-406

Mengxiao Liu and Daniel Trefler

Education and mental health: Evidence and mechanisms pp. 407-437

Wei Jiang, Yi Lu and Huihua Xie

Citizens’ trade-offs in state merger decisions: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment pp. 438-471

Sebastian Blesse and Friedrich Heinemann

Bad bankers no more? Truth-telling and (dis)honesty in the finance industry pp. 472-493

Christoph Huber and Jürgen Huber

The impact of employment quotas on the economic lives of disadvantaged minorities in India pp. 494-509

Nishith Prakash

Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees pp. 510-543

Mathias Huebener, Astrid Pape and C. Katharina Spiess

Poverty and economic dislocation reduce compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place protocols pp. 544-554

Austin L. Wright, Konstantin Sonin, Jesse Driscoll and Jarnickae Wilson

Common ownership of public goods pp. 555-578

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and Evagelos Pafilis

Nonlinear forecast combinations: An example using euro-area real GDP growth pp. 579-589

Heather Gibson, Stephen G. Hall and George Tavlas

How the demand for insurance became behavioral pp. 590-595

Anne Corcos, Claude Montmarquette and François Pannequin

Optimal insurance design under narrow framing pp. 596-607

Jiakun Zheng

Balancing the desire for privacy against the desire to hedge risk pp. 608-620

Christian Biener, Martin Eling and Martin Lehmann

Characterizing ambiguity attitudes using model uncertainty pp. 621-637

Loïc Berger and Valentina Bosetti

Optimal insurance in the presence of multiple policyholders pp. 638-656

Carole Bernard, Fangda Liu and Steven Vanduffel

The ground for negotiation: Zoning for risk reduction around hazardous plants pp. 657-677

Celine Grislain-Letremy and Bertrand Villeneuve

Loss aversion and the demand for index insurance pp. 678-693

Immanuel Lampe and Daniel Würtenberger

An experimental test of the under-annuitization puzzle with smooth ambiguity and charitable giving pp. 694-717

d’Albis, Hippolyte, Giuseppe Attanasi and Emmanuel Thibault

Risk and ambiguity aversion behavior in index-based insurance uptake decisions: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia pp. 718-730

Temesgen Keno Belissa, Robert Lensink and Marcel van Asseldonk

Insurance contracts when individuals “greatly value” certainty: Results from a field experiment in Burkina Faso pp. 731-743

Elena Serfilippi, Michael Carter and Catherine Guirkinger

Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya pp. 744-757

Erwin Bulte, Francesco Cecchi, Robert Lensink, Ana Marr and Marcel van Asseldonk

Risk transfer and moral hazard: An examination on the market for insurance-linked securities pp. 758-777

Tobias Götze and Marc Gürtler

The roles of reason and emotion in private and public responses to terrorism pp. 778-796

Jubo Yan, Kevin M. Kniffin, Howard C. Kunreuther and William D. Schulze

Are insurance and self-insurance substitutes? An experimental approach pp. 797-811

François Pannequin, Anne Corcos and Claude Montmarquette

An investigation of time preferences, life expectancy, and annuity versus lump sum choices: Can smoking harm long-term saving decisions? pp. 812-825

Abigail Hurwitz and Orly Sade

Risk preferences and poverty traps in the uptake of credit and insurance amongst small-scale farmers in South Africa pp. 826-836

Martine Visser, Hafsah Jumare and Kerri Brick

Formal insurance and informal risk sharing dynamics pp. 837-863

Wanchuan Lin, Juanjuan Meng and Xi Weng

Voluntary pooling of genetic risk: A health insurance experiment pp. 864-882

Wanda Mimra, Janina Nemitz and Christian Waibel

Demand for annuities: Price sensitivity, risk perceptions, and knowledge pp. 883-902

M. Martin Boyer, Sebastien Box-Couillard and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Premium levels and demand response in health insurance: relative thinking and zero-price effects pp. 903-923

Rudy Douven, Ron van der Heijden, Thomas McGuire and Frederik Schut

Social dilemmas with public and private insurance against losses pp. 924-937

Esther Blanco, E. Dutcher and Tobias Haller

Do you trust your insurer? Ambiguity about contract nonperformance and optimal insurance demand pp. 938-954

Richard Peter and Jie Ying

Loss aversion and health insurance plan switching pp. 955-966

James Cardon

Behavioral motivations for self-insurance under different disaster risk insurance schemes pp. 967-991

Jantsje M. Mol, Wouter Botzen and Julia E. Blasch

Climate change catastrophes and insuring decisions: A study in the presence of ambiguity pp. 992-1002

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