This study was commissioned by Wired Safety, an Internet Safety and Educational charity. It examines a range of harms potentially…
Consistent with mental accounting, we document that investors
sometimes choose the asset allocation for one account without…
From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores…
We show that individual investors over-extrapolate from their personal experience when making savings decisions. Investors who experience…
We evaluate why individuals invest in high-fee index funds. In our experiments, subjects each allocate $10,000 across four S&P 500…
There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible…
Defaults often have a large influence on consumer decisions. We identify an overlooked but practical alternative to defaults: requiring…
Book abstract: Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social…
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and…