Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2026

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 68, issue 3, 2024

Conditional independence in a binary choice experiment pp. 205-225

Nathaniel Wilcox

Revealing risky mistakes through revisions pp. 227-254

Zachary Breig and Paul Feldman

Consciously stochastic in preference reversals pp. 255-297

Liu Shi, Jianying Qiu, Jiangyan Li and Frank Bohn

Learning from natural disasters: Evidence from enterprise property insurance take-up in China pp. 299-334

Yugang Ding and Peiyun Deng

Volume 68, issue 2, 2024

Optimal e-cigarette policy when preferences and internalities are correlated pp. 107-131

Michael E. Darden

Choice under uncertainty and cognitive load pp. 133-161

Adam Dominiak and Peter Duersch

Does the COVID-19 pandemic change individuals’ risk preference? pp. 163-182

Tomohide Mineyama and Kiichi Tokuoka

Are physicians rational under ambiguity? pp. 183-203

Yu Gao, Zhenxing Huang, Ning Liu and Jia Yang

Volume 68, issue 1, 2024

A double-bounded risk-risk trade-off analysis of heatwave-related mortality risk: Evidence from India pp. 1-23

Susan Chilton, Darren Duxbury, Irene Mussio, Jytte Seested Nielsen and Smriti Sharma

COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking pp. 25-49

Shanike J. Smart and Solomon Polachek

Ambiguity attitudes toward natural and artificial sources in gain and loss domains pp. 51-75

Masahide Watanabe and Toshio Fujimi

Menu-dependent risk attitudes: Theory and evidence pp. 77-105

Zhuo Chen, Russell Golman and Jason Somerville

Volume 67, issue 3, 2023

Dynamic inconsistency under ambiguity: An experiment pp. 215-238

Rocco Caferra, John Hey, Andrea Morone and Marco Santorsola

Monetary values of increasing life expectancy: Sensitivity to shifts of the survival curve pp. 239-269

James Hammitt and Tuba Tunçel

The determinants of decision time in an ambiguous context pp. 271-297

Anna Conte, Gianmarco Santis, John Hey and Ivan Soraperra

Ambiguity aversion and the degree of ambiguity pp. 299-324

Ronald Klingebiel and Feibai Zhu

Volume 67, issue 2, 2023

Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL pp. 107-136

Quinn A. W. Keefer and Thomas Kniesner

Delegated risk-taking, accountability, and outcome bias pp. 137-161

Robert M. Gillenkirch and Louis Velthuis

Correction to: Delegated risktaking, accountability, and outcome bias pp. 163-163

Robert M. Gillenkirch and Louis Velthuis

The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks pp. 165-192

Michele Garagnani

On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking pp. 193-214

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia and Jana Willrodt

Volume 67, issue 1, 2023

Learning your own risk preferences pp. 1-19

Gary Charness, Nir Chemaya and Dario Trujano-Ochoa

Advantageous selection without moral hazard pp. 21-43

Philippe De Donder, Marie-Louise Leroux and François Salanié

Paying for randomization and indecisiveness pp. 45-72

Qiyan Ong and Jianying Qiu

Estimating risk and time preferences over public lotteries: Findings from the field and stream pp. 73-106

David Scrogin

Volume 66, issue 3, 2023

Windfall gains and house money: The effects of endowment history and prior outcomes on risky decision–making pp. 215-232

Hauke Jelschen and Ulrich Schmidt

Strategic ambiguity and risk in alternating pie-sharing experiments pp. 233-260

Anna Conte, Werner Güth and Paul Pezanis-Christou

Effects of e-cigarette minimum legal sales ages on youth tobacco use in the United States pp. 261-277

Michael Pesko

How risky is distracted driving? pp. 279-312

J. Bradley Karl, Charles M. Nyce, Lawrence Powell and Boyi Zhuang

Volume 66, issue 2, 2023

The locus of dread for mass shooting risks: Distinguishing alarmist risk beliefs from risk preferences pp. 109-139

Rachel E. Dalafave and W Viscusi

Seen and not seen: How people judge ambiguous behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 141-159

Andras Molnar, Alex Moore, Carman Fowler and George Wu

Pay every subject or pay only some? pp. 161-188

Lisa R. Anderson, Beth A. Freeborn, Patrick McAlvanah and Andrew Turscak

On the role of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments pp. 189-213

Andreas Hackethal, Michael Kirchler, Christine Laudenbach, Michael Razen and Annika Weber

Volume 66, issue 1, 2023

Towards a typology of risk preference: Four risk profiles describe two-thirds of individuals in a large sample of the U.S. population pp. 1-17

Renato Frey, Shannon M. Duncan and Elke U. Weber

Safe options and gender differences in risk attitudes pp. 19-46

Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin

Effect of a brief intervention on respondents’ subjective perception of time and discount rates pp. 47-75

W. David Bradford and Meriem Hodge Doucette

Individual characteristics associated with risk and time preferences: A multi country representative survey pp. 77-107

Thomas Meissner, Xavier Gassmann, Corinne Faure and Joachim Schleich

Volume 65, issue 3, 2022

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

James 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

Aurelien 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