Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2026

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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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

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, Jose-Maria Abellan-Perpiñan 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 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

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