Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics)

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Journal of Behavioral Economics.

Current editor(s): Pablo Brañas Garza

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Volume 121, issue C, 2026

Short planning horizons and the Save More Tomorrow program

Erin Cottle Hunt and T. Scott Findley

Exploring the privacy paradox: An experimental investigation of privacy-preserving behavioral responses in online shopping

Penélope Hernández, Antonio J. Morales, Zvika Neeman and Jose M. Pavía

Being the boss at work and at home — Self-employment and conflicts between partners

Stefan Schneck

Misinformation belief, health behavior, and labor supply during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from tricycle drivers in the Philippines

Siho Park, Syngjoo Choi, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Yasuyuki Sawada and Takashi Yamano

Chatbot or humanaut? How the source of advice impacts prosocial behavior

J. Jobu Babin and Haritima S. Chauhan

Reducing food waste in Chinese university canteens: the role of information and commitment

Hao Fan, Jingjing Wang, Shenggen Fan and Qian Xu

Price trends in sequential auctions: The case of collectible cars

Olga Shanks

From entry to persistence: Socio-emotional skills and entrepreneurial profiles

Kompal Sinha, Elisabetta Magnani and Rong Zhu

Can paying employees to quit boost motivation? Evidence from a lab experiment

Chiara Natalie Focacci, Tobias Gesche, Henry Kim, Ian Ayres and Alexander Stremitzer

Network information and nudging: Experimental insights into agricultural runoff management

Danielle Roy and Tongzhe Li

For whom do labels work? Heterogeneous effects of popularity and environmental information in coffee choice

Dede Long, Joaquín Gómez-Miñambres and Hongxing Liu

Risk preferences and other (ignored) behavioral factors in fertilizer management decisions: A systematic literature review

Laura Moritz, Riccardo Spada, Jens Rommel, Tobias Dalhaus and Simone Cerroni

A taxonomy of AI experiments

Aleksandr Alekseev and Christina Strobel

The creativity of artificial intelligence

Benjamin Prissé, Ruotong Deng, Jun Quan Ho, Dinithi Jayasekara and Chris Ouangraoua

Naturally biased? Experimental evidence on how the term natural influences wine consumers’ perceptions and preferences

Beatrice Braut, Maria Alessandra Paissoni, Barbara Cavalletti, Susana Río Segade, Matteo Corsi and Luca Rolle

Violence, class, and entrepreneurship

Zhiming Cheng and Le Zhang

Do men really have greater socio-emotional skills than women? Evidence from Tanzanian youth

Rachel Cassidy, Smita Das, Clara Delavallade, Elijah Kipchumba and Julietha Komba

The effects of favorable review solicitations on repurchase decisions: A field experiment on an e-commerce platform

Geran Tian

Assessing the interaction of empathy and diversity in creative teams

Cortney S. Rodet

Convergent and external validity of risk preferences elicitation methods: Evidence from Vietnam

Trang Thu Vu and Alistair Munro

Time preferences, sophistication, and trustworthiness in ROSCA participation: Theory and field experimental evidence

Quang Nguyen, Huong Trang Kim and Hoang Minh Trinh

Reputation systems in the absence of clear responsibility: An experimental study

Ninghua Du and Lanxin Meng

“Luxury beliefs”: Signaling through ideology?

Margaret Samahita

Affirmative action in recruitment decisions: do penalties mitigate recruitment bias?

Anwesha Bandyopadhyay

I think about you: Group mentality and altruism among farmers

Phumsith Mahasuweerachai

Does climate risk speed up dynamic capital structure adjustment? —Evidence from China

Jie Fu, Dongyang Liu and Lei Gao

Volume 120, issue C, 2026

Corrigendum to “The malleability of competitive preferences” [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Volume 104 (2023) 102015]

Åshild Johnsen, Henning Finseraas, Torbjørn Hanson and Andreas Kotsadam

Remembering past present biases

Barna Bakó, Antal Ertl and Hubert János Kiss

Meritocracy meets cooperative behavior in redistribution decisions

Cristina Cattaneo, Daniela Grieco and Claudio Daminato

Hey, what did you expect ? Confirmation bias in credence goods markets: Theoretical and experimental analyses

Maxime Perodaud and Michela Chessa

Misperception of descriptive norms and adoption of eco-schemes by French farmers

Benjamin Ouvrard and Arnaud Reynaud

Why should I comply with taxes if others don’t?: Social information and behavioral convergence: An experimental study

Nathalie Etchart-Vincent, Marisa Ratto and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau

Motivating self-employed women to contribute to social security in Bolivia

Lorena Heller, Rodrigo López and Ricardo Nogales

Legal reforms, norms, and child marriage: observational evidence on behavioral responses in sub-Saharan Africa

Anne Lieke Ebbers-Pardijs, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez and Natascha Wagner

Dishonesty and justifications: Evidence from the second roll of a dice game

Paul Clist and Ying-yi Hong

No room at the inn? The case for dedicated replication journals

W. Reed, Lukas Röseler, Marianne Saam and Lukas Wallrich

The effect of trust and information on household risky financial investments

Li Jia, Yi Yuan, Yuxuan Dong and Gerrit Antonides

LLMs are not weird: Comparing AI and human financial decision-making

Orhan Erdem and Ragavi Pobbathi Ashok

Alcohol Prohibition and attitudes towards spousal violence against women

Chandan Kumar Jha and Ghanshyam Sharma

Volume 119, issue C, 2025

Avoiding cognitive inconsistency: Experimental evidence on sustainable online shopping

Jana Eßer, Daniela Flörchinger, Manuel Frondel and Stephan Sommer

Self-censorship in the classroom

Sarah Greenberg and Daniel Stone

What works in financial education? Experimental evidence on program impact

Gonzalo Llamosas García and Cristina Mazas Pérez-Oleaga

The effect of social distancing on trust and solidarity

Antonio Filippin and Noemi Pace

Time pressure and motivated delay effects on sanctioning in a social dilemma: Experimental evidence

Todd Guilfoos and Jordan F. Suter

Buyer-side gender discrimination in bargaining: Evidence from seed sales in Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout and Leocardia Nabwire

Future time perspective and job satisfaction in financial planning for retirement

Fernando Coral Polanco

Effects of zero price and reciprocity on online consumer reviews

Xian. Zhang

Bargaining over taking from a powerless third party: The role of social preferences

Haimanti Bhattacharya, Subhasish Dugar and Sumit Sarkar

Moral wiggle room in the dictator game

Sanmitra Ghosh, Mridu Prabal Goswami and Shubhro Sarkar

Verification and reputational concerns: An experiment

Magnus Våge Knutsen

Unintended consequences of nudges: Challenges in improving attitudes towards shared e-scooters

Neel Ocean and Roger Woodman

A narrative review of stress, food choices, and eating behavior: Integrating psychoneuroendocrinology and economic decision-making

Grant S. Shields and Trey Malone

When leadership messaging fails to encourage producers’ climate action: Field experiments reveal what works in the real world

Hide-Fumi Yokoo, Takahiro Kubo, Daisuke Kunii and Hiroki Sasaki

Peers’ performance feedback: Evidence from soccer penalty shootouts

David Boto-García and Alessandro Bucciol

The attitude–behavior gap is not one-sided: Some do more for the environment than they believe

Vojtěch Zíka, Petra Olšová and Michaela Jánská

Does reluctance to share personal data reduce citizen demand for personalized services? Evidence from a survey experiment

Julieth Santamaria, Benjamin Roseth and Florencia Aguirre

Effectiveness of direct and indirect time preference elicitation methods across domains in predicting health behaviors: Evidence from Rural China

Cong Li, Danlei Chen, Jingxian Wu and Qiqi Liu

Active choosing or default rules? A revealed preference approach

Yukinori Iwata

Experimental methods: Learning your own risk preferences under different risk elicitation methods

Rocco Caferra, Andrea Morone and Donato Pierno

A comparison of endogenous and exogenous group formation to increase cooperation

Andrea Guido, Louis Putterman and Rustam Romaniuc

‘You can quit!’: Exploring the efficacy of new cigarette pack warnings through an experiment

Christian Ben Lakhdar, Antoine Deplancke, Fabrice Le Lec, Sophie Massin, Anthony Piermatteo and Nicolas G. Vaillant

Go your own way? social perception, migration and trust

Annamaria Nese, Patrizia Sbriglia and Luigi Senatore

Advancing openness in economic research through the lens of behavioral and experimental economics

Rima-Maria Rahal

Return intentions of Ukrainian refugees: The role of national identity and pride

Volodymyr Vakhitov, Nataliia Zaika and Serhiy Kandul

Jewish and not Jewish consumers’ preferences for a typical kosher product – an artefactual field experiment

Ágoston Temesi, Tamás Harci, Brigitta Unger-Plasek, Zoltán Lakner, László Bendegúz Nagy and Riccardo Vecchio

The honest (electricity) thief—Experimental evidence on the relationship between electricity theft and social norms

Esther Schuch, Maria Apergi and Luis Correa Lindarte

Search costs, choice overload, and intermediary deviation: Barriers to optimal insurance choices in multi-distribution channel setting

Claire Mouminoux, Jean-Louis Rullière and Stéphane Loisel

Gender differences in performance evaluations

Katja Görlitz and Tim Sels

Work meaningfulness and effort

Femke Cnossen and Milena Nikolova

Risk perception in food safety and the Value of Statistical Mild Food-Induced Adverse Reactions

Achilleas Vassilopoulos, Marcin Adam Antoniak and Marija Cerjak

Assessing the peer effects on willingness to pay for low-carbon food: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Xinyu Wang, Yinyu Zhao and Zemiao Xi

The effect of social norms on parents’ beliefs and food choices: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Noémi Berlin, Tarek Jaber-Lopez and Moustapha Sarr

Evaluating behavioural strategies for environmental cooperation: Evidence from a public goods game

Valeria Faralla and Alessandro Innocenti

Perceived agency and paternalism: Increasing support for people with substance use disorder

Madison Ashworth, Linda Thunström, Klaas van't Veld, Robin A. Thompson and David Johnson

Rank versus inequality—Does gender composition matter?

Duk Gyoo Kim and Max Riegel

Does local diversity affect charitable giving?

Barış Yörük

The relationship between household debt and the Big Five personality traits

Taehyun Lee and Almas Heshmati

Gender and neighborhood penalties in Karachi’s information technology sector

Sana Khalil

Communication and coordination in firms:A lab-in-the-field experiment with small manufacturers in Vietnam

Yuki Higuchi, Vu Nam and Tetsushi Sonobe

Consumers’ privacy concerns and price setting in a multichannel monopoly

M. Sánchez and Amparo Urbano

Best practices for reproducibility, research assessment reforms, and implications for experimental economists

Zacharias Maniadis

Evaluators’ masculine gender identity may drive gender biases in peer evaluation of business plans

Magdalena Adamus, Martin Guzi and Eva Ballová Mikušková

Environmental edutainment games and pro-environmental behavior of primary school students: Evidence from a field experiment

Emmanuel Dubois, Stefano Farolfi, Lisette Hafkamp-Ibanez and Sébastien Roussel

Gender of the opponent and reaction to competition outcomes

C. Mollier, A. García-Gallego, T. Jaber-Lopez and Sarah Zaccagni

Optimism about human pro-sociality correlates with higher confidence in free markets

Raúl López-Pérez and Diego Santamaría

Do incentives matter in elicitation of beliefs?

Fulya Ersoy

Lying in groups: Team incentives and social learning

Xuezheng Chen, Yang Sun and Hongru Tan

Elicitation bias in Multiple Price Lists: A field experiment

Stein Holden, Sarah Tione, Mesfin Tilahun and Samson Katengeza

Drivers of tax compliance: Survey evidence from 1761 Greek micro-firms

Augustinos Dimitras, Vasileios Fourlas, Erich Kirchler and George Peppas

Cognitive perspective on the self-reinforcing nature of poverty: Is subjective scarcity related to financial behaviour via the ability to think analytically?

Viktória Sunyík, Matúš Grežo and Magdalena Adamus

Refusing to lose: Reciprocity in complete information first-price sealed-bid auctions

Rachel Mannahan