Previous research has documented strong peer effects in risk taking, but little is known about how such social influences affect market outcomes. Since the consequences of social interactions are hard to isolate in financial ...

We study risk taking in a panel of subjects in Wuhan, China - before, during the COVID-19 crisis, and after the country reopened. Subjects in our sample traveled for semester break in January, generating variation in ...

We survey a sample of subjects in Wuhan, China – ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first survey wave took place on October 16th 2019, several weeks before initial reports of the virus in mainland China in December ...