Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 60, issue 3, 2020

E-cigarettes and adult smoking: Evidence from Minnesota pp. 207-228

Henry Saffer, Daniel Dench, Michael Grossman and Dhaval Dave

The effects of traditional cigarette and e-cigarette tax rates on adult tobacco product use pp. 229-258

Michael Pesko, Charles Courtemanche and Johanna Catherine Maclean

Electronic cigarette risk beliefs and usage after the vaping illness outbreak pp. 259-279

W Viscusi

News that takes your breath away: risk perceptions during an outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries pp. 281-307

Dhaval Dave, Daniel Dench, Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios and Hua Wang

Volume 60, issue 2, 2020

Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory? pp. 99-123

Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman and Marie Claire Villeval

The uncertainty triangle – Uncovering heterogeneity in attitudes towards uncertainty pp. 125-156

Daniel Burghart, Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr

The representative heuristic and catastrophe-related risk behaviors pp. 157-185

Randy E. Dumm, David L. Eckles, Charles Nyce and Jacqueline Volkman-Wise

Linking subjective and incentivized risk attitudes: The importance of losses pp. 187-206

Johannes G. Jaspersen, Marc A. Ragin and Justin R. Sydnor

Volume 60, issue 1, 2020

Thoughts and prayers – Do they crowd out charity donations? pp. 1-28

Linda Thunström

Risk attitudes and digit ratio (2D:4D): Evidence from prospect theory pp. 29-51

Levent Neyse, Ferdinand Vieider, Patrick Ring, Catharina Probst, Christian Kaernbach, Thilo Eimeren and Ulrich Schmidt

Opting out of workers’ compensation: Non-subscription in Texas and its effects pp. 53-76

Lu Jinks, Thomas Kniesner, John Leeth and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Private security, maritime piracy and the provision of international public safety pp. 77-97

Gregory DeAngelo and Taylor Leland Smith

Volume 59, issue 3, 2019

Risky health decisions under regulatory constraints: Abortion tourism in Switzerland pp. 203-237

Annette Hofmann, Julia K. Neumann and Peter Zweifel

Resolving Rabin’s paradox pp. 239-260

Han Bleichrodt, Jason N. Doctor, Yu Gao, Chen Li, Daniella Meeker and Peter Wakker

Common genetic effects on risk-taking preferences and choices pp. 261-279

Nicos Nicolaou and Scott Shane

Pricing risk in prostitution: Evidence from online sex ads pp. 281-305

Gregory DeAngelo, Jacob N. Shapiro, Jeffrey Borowitz, Michael Cafarella, Christopher Ré and Gary Shiffman

Volume 59, issue 2, 2019

The framing of nothing and the psychology of choice pp. 125-149

Marc Scholten, Daniel Read and Neil Stewart

Protecting against disaster risks: Why insurance and prevention may be complements pp. 151-169

Wouter Botzen, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Gender effects for loss aversion: Yes, no, maybe? pp. 171-184

Ranoua Bouchouicha, Lachlan Deer, Ashraf Galal Eid, Peter McGee, Daniel Schoch, Hrvoje Stojic, Jolanda Ygosse-Battisti and Ferdinand Vieider

Some implications of common consequences in lotteries pp. 185-202

David Crainich, Louis Eeckhoudt and Mario Menegatti

Volume 59, issue 1, 2019

Endogenous attention to costs pp. 1-22

Linda Thunström and Chian Jones Ritten

Correlation neglect and case-based decisions pp. 23-49

Benjamin Radoc, Robert Sugden and Theodore Turocy

An experimental test of the predictive power of dynamic ambiguity models pp. 51-83

Konstantinos Georgalos

Learning from extreme catastrophes pp. 85-124

Shinichi Kamiya and Noriyoshi Yanase

Volume 58, issue 2, 2019

Risk guideposts for a safer society: Introduction and overview pp. 101-119

W Viscusi

Ruining popcorn? The welfare effects of information pp. 121-142

Cass R. Sunstein

Utility functions for mild and severe health risks pp. 143-166

W Viscusi

Valuing mortality risk in China: Comparing stated-preference estimates from 2005 and 2016 pp. 167-186

James Hammitt, Fangli Geng, Xiaoqi Guo and Chris P. Nielsen

Birds of a feather: Estimating the value of statistical life from dual-earner families pp. 187-205

Joseph E. Aldy

Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life pp. 207-217

Thomas Kniesner

Empirical evidence of risk penalties for NTI Drugs pp. 219-244

Elissa Philip Gentry

Can a ‘veil of ignorance’ reduce the impact of distortionary taxation on public good valuations? pp. 245-262

Morgan Beeson, Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee, Hugh Metcalf and Jytte Seested Nielsen

Volume 58, issue 1, 2019

The value of a statistical life under changes in ambiguity pp. 1-15

Han Bleichrodt, Christophe Courbage and Béatrice Rey

Interpersonal discounting pp. 17-42

Rong Rong, Therese C. Grijalva, Jayson Lusk and W. Shaw

Looking ahead: Subjective time perception and individual discounting pp. 43-69

W. David Bradford, Paul Dolan and Matteo Galizzi

Measuring ambiguity preferences: A new ambiguity preference survey module pp. 71-100

Elisa Cavatorta and David Schröder

Volume 57, issue 3, 2018

Boundedly rational expected utility theory pp. 199-223

Daniel Navarro-Martinez, Graham Loomes, Andrea Isoni, David Butler and Larbi Alaoui

Decision irrationalities involving deadly risks pp. 225-252

W Viscusi and Scott DeAngelis

Dinner with Bayes: On the revision of risk beliefs pp. 253-280

Christoph Rheinberger and James Hammitt

Subjective beliefs and confidence when facts are forgotten pp. 281-299

Igor Kopylov and Joshua Miller

Volume 57, issue 2, 2018

Valuing the risk of workplace sexual harassment pp. 111-131

Joni Hersch

Ambiguity framed pp. 133-151

Mark Schneider, Jonathan Leland and Nathaniel Wilcox

Reporting probabilistic expectations with dynamic uncertainty about possible distributions pp. 153-176

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger and Kouamé Marius Sossou

Present bias and health pp. 177-198

Yang Wang and Frank Sloan

Volume 57, issue 1, 2018

Temporal discounting of gains and losses of time: An experimental investigation pp. 1-28

Mohammed Abdellaoui, Cédric Gutierrez and Emmanuel Kemel

Your money and your life: Risk attitudes over gains and losses pp. 29-50

Adam Oliver

Age, autos, and the value of a statistical life pp. 51-79

James O’Brien

Risk taking on behalf of others: The role of social distance pp. 81-109

Natalia Montinari and Michela Rancan

Volume 56, issue 3, 2018

Defaults, normative anchors, and the occurrence of risky and cautious shifts pp. 211-236

Stephan Jagau and Theo Offerman

Spatial externalities and risk in interdependent security games pp. 237-257

Stephan Kroll and Aric P. Shafran

Estimating representations of time preferences and models of probabilistic intertemporal choice on experimental data pp. 259-287

Pavlo R. Blavatskyy and Hela Maafi

Risk and risk aversion effects in contests with contingent payments pp. 289-305

Liqun Liu, Jack Meyer, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving

Volume 56, issue 2, 2018

Discounting health and money: New evidence using a more robust method pp. 117-140

Arthur Attema, Han Bleichrodt, Olivier L’Haridon, Patrick Peretti-Watel and Valerie Seror

Social interaction effects: The impact of distributional preferences on risky choices pp. 141-164

Anita Gantner and Rudolf Kerschbamer

Responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait pp. 165-192

Thomas Buser, Leonie Gerhards and Joël Weele

Evidence for multiple strategies in choice under risk pp. 193-210

Giorgio Coricelli, Enrico Diecidue and Francesco D. Zaffuto

Volume 56, issue 1, 2018

Complexity in risk elicitation may affect the conclusions: A demonstration using gender differences pp. 1-17

Gary Charness, Catherine Eckel, Uri Gneezy and Agne Kajackaite

Goals as reference points in marathon running: A novel test of reference dependence pp. 19-50

Alex Markle, George Wu, Rebecca White and Aaron Sackett

Corporate apology for environmental damage pp. 51-81

Ben Gilbert, Alexander James and Jason Shogren

Making the Anscombe-Aumann approach to ambiguity suitable for descriptive applications pp. 83-116

Stefan Trautmann and Peter Wakker