Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 65, issue 3, 2022

Is survival a luxury good? Income elasticity of the value per statistical life pp. 239-260

James K. Hammitt, Jin-Tan Liu and Jin-Long Liu

Controlling ambiguity: The illusion of control in choice under risk and ambiguity pp. 261-284

Alex Berger and Agnieszka Tymula

Biased survival expectations and behaviours: Does domain specific information matter? pp. 285-317

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

Risky choice: Probability weighting explains independence axiom violations in monkeys pp. 319-351

Simone Ferrari-Toniolo, Leo Chi U. Seak and Wolfram Schultz

Volume 65, issue 2, 2022

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap pp. 105-137

Robin Cubitt, Orestis Kopsacheilis and Chris Starmer

Risk and rationality: The relative importance of probability weighting and choice set dependence pp. 139-184

Adrian Bruhin, Maha Manai and Luis Santos-Pinto

Do people care about loss probabilities? pp. 185-213

Stefan Zeisberger

Risk and time preferences interaction: An experimental measurement pp. 215-238

Jeeva Somasundaram and Vincent Eli

Volume 65, issue 1, 2022

Chance theory: A separation of riskless and risky utility pp. 1-32

Ulrich Schmidt and Horst Zank

The impact of risk aversion and ambiguity aversion on annuity and saving choices pp. 33-56

Eric André, Antoine Bommier and François Le Grand

Personalized information and willingness to pay for non-financial risk prevention: An experiment pp. 57-82

Yves Arrighi, David Crainich, Véronique Flambard and Sophie Massin

Choice uncertainty and the endowment effect pp. 83-104

Christina McGranaghan and Steven G. Otto

Volume 64, issue 3, 2022

Self-serving dishonesty: The role of confidence in driving dishonesty pp. 235-250

Stephanie A. Heger, Robert Slonim and Franziska Tausch

Smoking, selection, and medical care expenditures pp. 251-285

Michael E. Darden and Robert Kaestner

Risk-taking and others pp. 287-307

Annika Lindskog, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

Strength of preference and decisions under risk pp. 309-329

Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Michele Garagnani

Volume 64, issue 2, 2022

The limits of reopening policy to alter economic behavior: New evidence from Texas pp. 109-145

Dhaval Dave, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

Fatalism, beliefs, and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 147-190

Jesper Akesson, Sam Ashworth-Hayes, Robert Hahn, Robert Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly

How does risk preference change under the stress of COVID-19? Evidence from Japan pp. 191-212

Yoshiro Tsutsui and Iku Tsutsui-Kimura

Perceptions of personal and public risk: Dissociable effects on behavior and well-being pp. 213-234

Laura K. Globig, Bastien Blain and Tali Sharot

Volume 64, issue 1, 2022

Do people have a bias for low deductible insurance? pp. 1-17

Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly

Revisiting the diagnosis of intertemporal preference reversals pp. 19-41

Zhihua Li and Graham Loomes

A behavioral decomposition of willingness to pay for health insurance pp. 43-87

Aurélien Baillon, Aleli Kraft, Owen O’Donnell and Kim Wilgenburg

Intertemporal choice as a tradeoff between cumulative payoff and average delay pp. 89-107

Pavlo R. Blavatskyy

Volume 63, issue 3, 2021

Insurance decisions under nonperformance risk and ambiguity pp. 229-253

Timo R. Lambregts, Paul Bruggen and Han Bleichrodt

Correction to: Insurance decisions under nonperformance risk and ambiguity pp. 255-255

Timo R. Lambregts, Paul Bruggen and Han Bleichrodt

Intransitivity in the small and in the large pp. 257-273

Sushil Bikhchandani and Uzi Segal

An experimental study of charity hazard: The effect of risky and ambiguous government compensation on flood insurance demand pp. 275-318

Peter John Robinson, Wouter Botzen and Fujin Zhou

How serious is the measurement-error problem in risk-aversion tasks? pp. 319-342

Fabien Perez, Guillaume Hollard and Radu Vranceanu

Volume 63, issue 2, 2021

Crowded out: Heterogeneity in risk attitudes among poor households in the US pp. 103-132

Arianna Galliera and Elisabet Rutstrom

Risk avoidance, offsetting community effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an indoor political rally pp. 133-167

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Connor Redpath and Joseph J. Sabia

Gender differences in the stability of risk attitudes pp. 169-201

Anwesha Bandyopadhyay, Lutfunnahar Begum and Philip Grossman

The value of statistical life in the context of road safety: new evidence on the contingent valuation/standard gamble chained approach pp. 203-228

Fernando-Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez, Jorge-Eduardo Martínez-Pérez, José-María Abellán-Perpiñán and José-Luis Pinto-Prades

Volume 63, issue 1, 2021

Optimality of winner-take-all contests: the role of attitudes toward risk pp. 1-25

Liqun Liu and Nicolas Treich

Quantifying loss aversion: Evidence from a UK population survey pp. 27-57

David Blake, Edmund Cannon and Douglas Wright

When risky decisions generate externalities pp. 59-79

Angela C. M. Oliveira

Effortful Bayesian updating: A pupil-dilation study pp. 81-102

Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Alexander Jaudas and Alexander Ritschel

Volume 62, issue 3, 2021

Experimental evidence on the effect of incentives and domain in risk aversion and discounting tasks pp. 203-224

Emmanouil Mentzakis and Jana Sadeh

Stochastic superiority pp. 225-246

Liqun Liu and Jack Meyer

Adversity-hope hypothesis: Air pollution raises lottery demand in China pp. 247-280

Soo Hong Chew, Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

Justice in an uncertain world: Evidence on donations to cancer research pp. 281-311

Tigran Melkonyan, Zvi Safra and Sinong Ma

Volume 62, issue 2, 2021

Altruism and efficient allocations in three-generation households pp. 113-135

Anna Bartczak, Wiktor Budzinski, Susan Chilton, Rebecca McDonald and Jytte Seested Nielsen

Simple belief elicitation: An experimental evaluation pp. 137-155

Karl Schlag and James Tremewan

Learning under uncertainty with multiple priors: experimental investigation pp. 157-176

James Bland and Yaroslav Rosokha

Efficient Institutions and Effective Deterrence: On Timing and Uncertainty of Formal Sanctions pp. 177-201

Johannes Buckenmaier, Eugen Dimant, Ann-Christin Posten and Ulrich Schmidt

Volume 62, issue 1, 2021

Prince: An improved method for measuring incentivized preferences pp. 1-28

Cathleen Johnson, Aurelien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt, Zhihua Li, Dennie Dolder and Peter Wakker

The modest effects of fact boxes on cancer screening pp. 29-54

Michael R. Eber, Cass R. Sunstein, James K. Hammitt and Jennifer M. Yeh

On the validity of the estimates of the VSL from contingent valuation: Evidence from the Czech Republic pp. 55-87

Anna Alberini and Milan Ščasný

Risk Taking with Left- and Right-Skewed Lotteries* pp. 89-112

Douadia Bougherara, Lana Friesen and Celine Nauges

Volume 61, issue 3, 2020

Robust inference in risk elicitation tasks pp. 195-209

Ola Andersson, Hakan Holm, Jean-Robert Tyran and Erik Wengström

Broad bracketing for low probability events pp. 211-244

Shereen J. Chaudhry, Michael Hand and Howard Kunreuther

Liking the long-shot … but just as a friend pp. 245-261

Matthew P. Taylor

The development of risk aversion and prudence in Chinese children and adolescents pp. 263-287

Timo Heinrich and Jason Shachat

Volume 61, issue 2, 2020

Pricing the global health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 101-128

W Viscusi

Valuing mortality risk in the time of COVID-19 pp. 129-154

James Hammitt

The forgotten numbers: A closer look at COVID-19 non-fatal valuations pp. 155-176

Thomas Kniesner and Ryan Sullivan

Political polarization in US residents’ COVID-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors pp. 177-194

Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Htay-Wah Saw and Dana Goldman

Volume 61, issue 1, 2020

Decisions under risk: Dispersion and skewness pp. 1-24

Oben K. Bayrak and John Hey

Dual choice axiom and probabilistic choice pp. 25-41

Pavlo R. Blavatskyy

Risk awareness and adverse selection in catastrophe insurance: Evidence from California’s residential earthquake insurance market pp. 43-65

Xiao Lin

Natural disaster and risk-sharing behavior: Evidence from rural Bangladesh pp. 67-99

Asad Islam, C. Matthew Leister, Minhaj Mahmud and Paul Raschky