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

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Journal of Behavioral Economics.

Current editor(s): Pablo Brañas Garza

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Volume 44, issue C, 2013

A theory of norm compliance: Punishment and reputation pp. 1-6

Shinji Teraji

The type and duration of family unions and income sharing: The implications for women's economic well-being pp. 7-15

Nevena Kulic

Material needs and aggregate demand pp. 16-26

Eric Kemp-Benedict

The indirect effect of fine particulate matter on health through individuals’ life-style pp. 27-36

Cinzia Di Novi

Tempting righteous citizens? Counterintuitive effects of increasing sanctions in the realm of organized crime pp. 37-40

Tim Friehe

Regulation, trust, and cronyism in Middle Eastern societies: The simple economics of “wasta” pp. 41-46

Andy Barnett, Bruce Yandle and George Naufal

The stage of development among former communist economies: Social capital, the middle class and democracy pp. 47-58

Pasquale Tridico

Inflation expectations formation in the presence of policy shifts and structural breaks: An experimental analysis pp. 59-67

Luís Ricardo Maertens Odria and Gabriel Rodríguez

Cooperation limitations under a one-time threat of expulsion and punishment pp. 68-74

Aaron Lowen and Pamela Schmitt

Factors affecting soldiers’ time preference: A field study in Israel pp. 75-84

Tal Shavit, Eyal Lahav and Uri Benzion

Estimating the effects of procrastination on performance: A small sample study pp. 85-90

Kazuki Onji

Intelligence and bribing behavior in a one-shot game pp. 91-96

Philip Shaw, William F. Vásquez and Mark LeClair

Where to snuff the puff? Relative effectiveness of U.S. smoking control policies pp. 97-102

Rajeev Goel

The role of ideological change in India's economic liberalization pp. 103-111

Nimish Adhia

Reconciling gender differences in the returns to education in self-employment: Does occupation matter? pp. 112-119

Kristen Roche Carioti

Factors influencing adult earnings: Findings from a nationally representative sample pp. 120-125

Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng

Does access to information technology make people happier? Insights from well-being surveys from around the world pp. 126-139

Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova

Cognitive ability and the division of labor in urban ghettos: Evidence from gang activity in U.S. data pp. 140-149

Richard Seals and Liliana V. Stern

Voluntary formation of centralized sanctioning institutions pp. 150-159

Lauri Sääksvuori

Volume 43, issue C, 2013

Scitovsky and the income-happiness paradox pp. 1-10

Maurizio Pugno

Child poverty and the reform of family cash benefits pp. 11-23

Manuela Arcanjo, Amélia Bastos, Francisco Nunes and J. Passos

Social capital and diffusion of water system innovations in the Makanya watershed, Tanzania pp. 24-36

S.D. Tumbo, K.D. Mutabazi, K.F.G. Masuki, F.B. Rwehumbiza, H.F. Mahoo, S.J. Nindi and J.G. Mowo

Status, identification and in-group favouritism of the unemployed compared to other social categories pp. 37-43

Ingrid Wahl, Maria Pollai and Erich Kirchler

Dictator game giving and norms of redistribution: Does giving in the dictator game parallel with the supporting of income redistribution in the field? pp. 44-48

Timo Tammi

Schools, ability, and the socioeconomic gradient in education choices pp. 49-59

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Strøm

On anti-smoking regulations and tobacco consumption pp. 60-67

Nazmi Sari

Merger wave in a small world: Two views pp. 68-71

Li Way Lee

Quality of social networks and educational investment decisions pp. 72-82

Blanca Zuluaga

Income, civic participation and achieving greater democracy pp. 83-92

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

Volume 42, issue C, 2013

Divergent historical experiences and inequality in academic achievement: The case of Poland pp. 1-12

Mikolaj Herbst and Steven Rivkin

Experienced utility versus decision utility: Putting the ‘S’ in satisfaction pp. 13-23

Steven Carter and Michael McBride

An agent based model for studying optimal tax collection policy using experimental data: The cases of Chile and Italy pp. 24-30

Nicolás Garrido and Luigi Mittone

Buyers pay for and sellers invest in a good reputation: More evidence from eBay pp. 31-42

Wojtek Przepiorka

The moral consequences of economic growth: An empirical investigation pp. 43-50

Lewis S. Davis and Matthew Knauss

Determinants of subjective well-being in high and low income countries: Do happiness equations differ across countries? pp. 51-66

Francesco Sarracino

Social conformity and suicide pp. 67-78

Anna Bussu, Claudio Detotto and Valerio Sterzi

Multiple tournaments and sustained defection: Why do negotiations fail to secure resource access between pastoral and agropastoral groups in Ethiopia? pp. 79-87

Fekadu Beyene

Stemming the tide of obesity: What needs to happen pp. 88-98

John Tomer

Do bidders require a monetary premium for cognitive effort in an auction? pp. 99-105

Mosi Rosenboim, Tal Shavit and Chen Cohen

The effects of community social capital on school performance: A spatial approach pp. 106-111

Kaustav Misra, Paul Grimes and Kevin E. Rogers

The effects of individual judgments about selection procedures: Results from a power-to-resist game pp. 112-120

Vanessa Mertins, Henrik Egbert and Tanja Könen

Repeated play and gender in the ultimatum game pp. 121-126

Peter McGee and Stelios Constantinides

Stakeholder theory: Some revisionist suggestions pp. 127-135

Jan Tullberg

Seasonal affective disorder: onset and recovery pp. 136-139

Mohammed Khaled and Stephen Keef

Volume 41, issue 6, 2012

A liberal and rhetorical reply pp. 749-752

Deirdre N. McCloskey

A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations pp. 753-756

Peter Boettke

Discovering rhetoric: The ecology of enterprise in the Bourgeois Era pp. 757-762

Adam Martin

Dignity and development pp. 763-771

Claudia R. Williamson

What can sociology teach us about the ideational origins of modernity? Comments on McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity pp. 772-775

Joshua T. McCabe

Morality and aspiration in Bourgeois Dignity pp. 776-782

Kevin Vallier

Of talk, economics, love and innovation pp. 783-786

Ross Emmett

Talk changes things: The implications of McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity for historical inquiry pp. 787-791

Nona Martin and Virgil Storr

How capitalism and the bourgeois virtues transformed and humanized the family pp. 792-795

Steven Horwitz

Lay actions in the face of crisis—Swedish citizens’ actions in response to the global financial crisis of 2008 pp. 796-805

Inga-Lill Söderberg and Misse Wester

Ignorance is not bliss: On the role of education in subjective well-being pp. 806-815

Pavel Yakovlev and Susane Leguizamon

Income earning opportunity and work performance affect donating behavior: Evidence from dictator game experiments pp. 816-826

Kazuhito Ogawa, Toru Takemoto, Hiromasa Takahashi and Akihiro Suzuki

Patient compliance, physician empathy and financial incentives within a principal-agent framework pp. 827-830

Yosef Mealem, Erez Siniver and Gideon Yaniv

For compassion or money? The factors influencing the funding of micro loans pp. 831-835

Lauren Heller and Kayla D. Badding

Factors affecting completion of a matched savings program: Impacts of time preference, discount rate, and financial hardship pp. 836-842

Kim Manturuk, Jessica Dorrance and Sarah Riley

Ethical crises in the international political economy pp. 843-848

Jesse Russell

Volume 41, issue 5, 2012

Using econometric analysis of willingness-to-pay to investigate economic efficiency and equity of domestic water services in the West Bank pp. 485-494

Ibrahim Awad

On some flaws of university rankings: The example of the SCImago report pp. 495-499

Louis de Mesnard

Assessment of multidimensional poverty and effectiveness of microfinance-driven government and NGO projects in the rural Bangladesh pp. 500-512

Tamgid Chowdhury and Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Access to microfinance and intra household business decision making: Implication for efficiency of female owned enterprises in Ghana pp. 513-518

Wisdom Akpalu, Samuel Erasmus Alnaa and Peter B. Aglobitse

The preponderant causes of the USA banking crisis 2007–08 pp. 519-528

Eduardo Pol

The economists and the primitive societies pp. 529-540

Roberto Marchionatti

See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital pp. 541-547

Angelo Antoci, Fabio Sabatini and Mauro Sodini

Axiomatic measurement of multidimensional well-being inequality: Some distributional questions pp. 548-557

Elisabetta Croci Angelini and Alessandra Michelangeli

Group decision-making: An economic analysis of social influence and individual difference in experimental juries pp. 558-573

Michelle Baddeley and Sophia Parkinson

Effects of financial insecurity on social interactions pp. 574-583

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman and Jennifer Schultz

Why do spouses hide income? pp. 584-593

Hazel Jean Malapit

Economic and behavioral factors in an individual's decision to take the influenza vaccination in Japan pp. 594-602

Yoshiro Tsutsui, Uri Benzion and Shosh Shahrabani

Confidence in the economy in times of crisis: Social representations of experts and laypeople pp. 603-614

Katharina Gangl, Barbara Kastlunger, Erich Kirchler and Martin Voracek

The impact of income inequality on values and attitudes pp. 615-622

Frederic L. Pryor

Impacts of financial crisis on social engagement in Hong Kong pp. 623-632

Chau-kiu Cheung and Sik Hung Ng

The organization of an ethnic economy: Urban black communities in the early twentieth century pp. 633-641

Robert L. Boyd

Walking in the shoes of others: Experimental testing of dual-interest and empathy in environmental choice pp. 642-653

Natalia V. Czap, Hans J. Czap, Marianna Khachaturyan, Gary D. Lynne and Mark Burbach

… Do as the Romans do. A model of conformity with the endogenous formation of preferences pp. 654-658

Viviana Di Giovinazzo and Ahmad Naimzada

Why without pay? Intrinsic motivation in the unpaid labour supply pp. 659-669

Bruna Bruno and Damiano Fiorillo

Does self-employment contribute to national happiness? pp. 670-676

Sana Harbi and Gilles Grolleau

Implications of behavioural economics for financial literacy and public policy pp. 677-690

Morris Altman

Relational aspects of decisions to sell pp. 697-704

Therese Jefferson and Ross Taplin

Being the best or doing the right thing? An investigation of positional, prosocial and conformist preferences in provision of public goods pp. 705-711

Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez and Naoufel Mzoughi

On “lab rats” pp. 714-720

Pablo Guillen and Róbert Veszteg

A critical note on the role of the capability approach for sustainability economics pp. 721-725

Martin Binder and Ulrich Witt

Self-report to self-control? A note pp. 727-729

Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe

Boundedly rational banks’ contribution to the credit cycle pp. 730-737

Tobias F. Rötheli

Red light, green light: Color priming in financial decisions pp. 738-745

Doron Kliger and Dalia Gilad

Volume 41, issue 4, 2012

Rationality, fairness and the cost of distrust pp. 345-349

Göran Bostedt and Runar Brännlund

Poverty dynamics and disability: An empirical exercise using the European community household panel pp. 350-359

C. Delia Dávila Quintana and Miguel Malo

Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country analysis pp. 360-363

Eiji Yamamura

The role of preferences in disagreements over scientific hypothesis: Evidence on cognitive bias in formation of beliefs pp. 364-369

Mitesh Kataria

Hair color and wages: Waitresses with blond hair have more fun pp. 370-372

Nicolas Guéguen

The influence of religiosity on charitable behavior: A COPPS investigation pp. 373-383

Sara Helms and Jeremy Thornton

No contract or unfair contract: What's better? pp. 384-390

Lisa Bruttel and Gerald Eisenkopf

Determinants of willingness to pay for coastal zone quality improvement pp. 391-399

George Halkos and Steriani Matsiori

Emulation and state-by-state variations in bankruptcy rates pp. 400-407

Richard V. Adkisson and Eduardo Saucedo

Does state spending on mental health lower suicide rates? pp. 408-417

Justin Ross, Pavel Yakovlev and Fatima Carson

‘Spite effects’ in tax evasion experiments pp. 418-423

John Cullis, Philip Jones and Amal Soliman

An analysis of well-being in retirement: The role of pensions, health, and ‘voluntariness’ of retirement pp. 424-433

Keith Bender

It is not just escalation: The one dollar game revisited pp. 434-438

Matteo Migheli

The role of attribution of causality in economic decision making pp. 439-444

Gregory Gurevich, Doron Kliger and Bernard Weiner

Does labor contract completeness drive unionization? Experimental evidence pp. 445-454

Sean Flynn and Michael Donnelly

Volunteering, pro-environmental attitudes and norms pp. 455-467

María García-Valiñas, Alison Macintyre and Benno Torgler

The contribution of behavioral economics to tax reform in the United Kingdom pp. 468-475

Simon James

Norms, moods, and free lunch: Longitudinal evidence on payments from a Pay-What-You-Want restaurant pp. 476-483

Gerhard Riener and Christian Traxler

Volume 41, issue 3, 2012

Is the positional bias an artefact? Distinguishing positional concerns from egalitarian concerns pp. 277-283

Jérémy Celse

A structural model of consumption: An application to China during the global financial crisis pp. 284-288

Jan P. Voon and Jan Cham Voon

Uncertainty resolution in tax experiments: Why waiting for an audit increases compliance pp. 289-291

Stephan Muehlbacher, Luigi Mittone, Barbara Kastlunger and Erich Kirchler

Trust, perceptions of corruption, and demand for regulation: Evidence from post-socialist countries pp. 292-303

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl and A. Joseph Guse

Effects of positive attitude and optimism on wage and employment: A double selection approach pp. 304-316

Madhu Sudan Mohanty

Work hours, social value of leisure and globalisation pp. 317-326

Jørgen Drud Hansen, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna and Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen

Brothers are doing it for themselves?: Men's experiences of getting into and getting out of debt pp. 327-335

Jackie Goode

Do you reward and punish in the way you think others expect you to? pp. 336-343

Omar Al-Ubaydli and Min Sok Lee

Volume 41, issue 2, 2012

From absence to absenteeism? A qualitative cross case study of teachers’ views on sickness absence pp. 129-136

Benedicte Carlsen

Stock investors’ preference for short-term vs. long-term bonuses pp. 137-142

Martin Hedesström, Maria Andersson, Tommy Gärling and Anders Biel

Direct and indirect effects of happiness on wage: A simultaneous equations approach pp. 143-152

Madhu S. Mohanty and Aman Ullah

Gender discrimination and self-employment dynamics in Europe pp. 153-158

Donald Williams

Social norms and tax compliance: Framing the decision to pay tax pp. 159-168

John Cullis, Philip Jones and Antonio Savoia

Risk information processing and rational ignoring in the health context pp. 169-179

Barbara Osimani

Neighborhood effects of high unemployment rates: Welfare implications among different social groups pp. 180-188

Peter Schwarz

From wage rigidity to labour market institution rigidity: A turning-point in explaining unemployment? pp. 189-197

Marco Guerrazzi and Nicola Meccheri

Preferences, rational choices and economic valuation: Some empirical tests pp. 198-206

Bénédicte Rulleau and Jeanne Dachary-Bernard

From locality to continent: A comment on the generalization of an experimental study pp. 207-210

Kenju Kamei

Fairness as a constraint on reciprocity: Playing simultaneously as dictator and trustee pp. 211-221

Aaron Nicholas

A humanistic theory of economic behavior pp. 222-234

Bernard C. Beaudreau

Transparency ‘footprints’ of Central Banks: The role of minutes/voting records pp. 235-247

John Diamondopoulos

Preserving or escaping? On the welfare effects of environmental self-protective choices pp. 248-254

Angelo Antoci and Simone Borghesi

Demand cross elasticity without substitutability: An experiment pp. 255-265

Luigi Luini and Pierluigi Sabbatini

Trust and reciprocity among international groups: Experimental evidence from Austria and Japan pp. 266-276

Kenju Akai and Robert Jiro Netzer

Volume 41, issue 1, 2012

Sex, self-interest and health care priorities pp. 1-7

Tracey H. Sach and David K. Whynes

Education as a social agreement pp. 8-17

Thomas Bassetti

Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows pp. 18-25

Heizler (Cohen), Odelia and Ayal Kimhi

What affects customer success when bargaining for a new car? Some empirical evidence pp. 26-30

Ofer Azar

Inverted U-shaped conformism: An economic model of endogenous responses to the Joneses pp. 31-36

Wai Chiu Woo

The neglected dimension of well-being: Analyzing the development of “conversion efficiency” in Great Britain pp. 37-47

Martin Binder and Tom Broekel

Do you believe that others are more positional than you? Results from an empirical survey on positional concerns in France pp. 48-54

Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi and Sandra Saïd

Intentions and ethical behavior in trust games pp. 55-63

Pierre Lacour

Market economies and pro-social behavior: Experimental evidence from Central Asia pp. 64-71

Stephen M. Rosenbaum, Stephan Billinger, Nils Stieglitz, Abdumalik Djumanov and Yerlan Atykhanov

Trust and financial trades: Lessons from an investment game where reciprocators can hide behind probabilities pp. 72-78

Radu Vranceanu, Angela Sutan and Delphine Dubart

Willingness to contribute to collective forest management: Evidence from Godere in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia pp. 79-86

Wondimagegnehu Girma and Fekadu Beyene

Communication, equity and the voluntary provision of a public good by heterogeneous groups pp. 87-94

Kenneth Chan, Stuart Mestelman, R. Andrew Muller and Robert Moir

The importance of cultural and economic influences behind the decision to attend higher education pp. 95-103

Mark Bowden and James Doughney

Do designated drivers and workplace policies effect alcohol consumption? pp. 104-109

Wesley A. Austin and Rand Ressler

Determinants of a throwaway society – A sustainable consumption issue pp. 110-117

John McCollough

The relative importance of selfishness and social capital motives pp. 118-127

Lindon Robison, Robert Shupp, Songqing Jin, Marcelo E. Siles and Tawni Ferrarini