Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How does information about inequality shape voting intentions and preferences for redistribution? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Indonesia73
The cost of honesty: Field evidence45
High incentives without high cost - The role of (perceived) stake sizes in dictator games41
Do perceptions of economic well-being predict the onset of war and peace?29
Behavioral changes in different designs of search experiments28
Recruiting mid-qualified workers in product-innovating firms: Which personality traits matter?28
Physician behavior: Experimental evidence from physician and patient perspectives26
Decision-making styles and cognitive biases: Experimental results from a Korean sample26
Setting the stage: Fairness behavior in virtual reality dictator games23
Contrarian profits and representativeness heuristic in the MENA stock markets22
Comparing transparent and covert nudges: A meta-analysis calling for more diversity in nudge transparency research21
Self-regulation training and job search input: A natural field experiment within an active labor market program19
Cash or card? Impression management and restaurant tipping behavior18
Advice and behavior in a dictator game: An experimental study18
The impact of smart meter programmes on household water consumption: evidence from New Zealand17
Editorial Board16
Averaging bias in firm acquisition processes16
Preference for working from home – subjective perceptions of COVID-19 matter more than objective information on occupational exposure to contagion15
Competitor ability, sorting and overconfidence: An experiment14
The endowment effect with different possession times and types of items14
Book Review of Social Preferences by Michalis Drouvelis14
Consumer perceptions of price increase by CSR: Focusing on construal level and consumer attribution14
Lab vs online experiments: No differences13
Updating politicized beliefs: How motivated reasoning contributes to polarization13
Measuring non-cognitive skills exploiting log-files on online behaviour13
The effect of tax transparency on consumer and firm behavior: Experimental evidence12
Deterrence strength in TV fee enforcement: Field evidence from the Czech Republic12
On the psychology of bonuses: The effects of loss aversion and Yerkes-Dodson law on performance in cognitively and mechanically demanding tasks12
Sending a message or seeking retributive justice? An experimental investigation of why people punish12
Book Review11
Women don't avoid competition, they avoid competing against men: Experimental evidence from Kenya11
Understanding pastoralists’ preferences for goat traits: Application of all-levels and end-point choice experiments11
Happiness and willingness to compete10
Unequal opportunities, social groups, and redistribution: Evidence from Germany10
An experimental analysis of gender discrimination in a credence goods market10
Anticipatory effects of competition on confidence and risk preference10
Climate clubs in the laboratory10
The drunk side of trust: Generalized and instantaneous trust at gathering events9
The impact of board games on the financial literacy of public-school students9
Limited attention in beverage choice: Evidence from a field experiment9
How consequential is policy consequentiality? Evidence from online discrete choice experiment with ornamental plants9
Scarcity and consumption priorities9
Money vs Score: Evidences of payoff stakes in the dictator and ultimatum games9
Algorithmic trading, what if it is just an illusion? Evidence from experimental asset markets9
On the generalizability of using mobile devices to conduct economic experiments9
Editorial Board8
Trust a few: Natural disasters and the disruption of trust in Africa8
You cannot judge a book by its cover: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on recognizing generosity from facial information8
The effect of future-time referencing on pro-environmental behavior8
Promoting socially desirable behaviors through persuasion and commitment: Experimental evidence8
Instinctiveness and reflexivity in behavioural type variability8
Adam Smith, human betterment, and his erroneous indentification with self-interested human action8
Gender differences in competitiveness: Friends matter8
Salience bias: A framework about the importance of prices and budget constraints perceptions8
The role of borrower expectations in mortgage choice8
Self-employment and Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Perceived Importance of Family, Friends, Leisure Time, and Work8
The Demand and Supply of Esteem: An experimental analysis8
Context, welfare sensitivity, and positional preferences among fisherfolks in a developing country8
Using a brief contact to improve trust in the police by the youth7
Is Society Ready for AI Ethical Decision Making? Lessons from a Study on Autonomous Cars7
Shame on me: Emotions and gender differences in taking with earned endowments7
Optimism, debt accumulation, and business growth7
The effects of party size and dining duration on tipping behavior7
“Take my word for it”: Group Texts and Testimonials Enhance State and Federal Student Aid Applications7
Intragroup punishment and intergroup conflict aversion weaken intragroup cooperation in finitely repeated games7
Who prefers to buy improved period products in India? Evidence from list experiment7
Understanding the mental health-based poverty trap: Dynamics in psychological distress and financial precariousness, and the role of self-efficacy7
Editorial Board7
Mood and the malleability of moral reasoning: the impact of irrelevant factors on judicial decisions6
The role of future time reference in cross-listing decisions: Cross-country evidence6
Festival games: Inebriated and sober altruists6
The impact of process automation on performance6
Prosociality in variants of the dictator game: Evidence from children in El Salvador6
Targeted intervention using network characteristics: An experiment6
A general equilibrium model of dynamic loss aversion6
Nudging people to pay their parking fines on time. Evidence from a cluster-randomized field experiment6
Loss aversion or lack of trust: Why does loss framing work to encourage preventive health behaviors?6
Experimental evidence of moral cleansing in the interpersonal and environmental domains6
The self-control vs. self-indulgence dilemma: A culturomic analysis of 20th century trends6
Does enhancing the vividness in connection with the future self increase savings behavior? A field experiment6
The effects of occupational characteristics on the motives underlying tipping of different occupations5
Life satisfaction and tax morale: The role of trust in government and cultural orientation5
Gender differences in the effect of subjective feedback in an online game5
Foretelling what makes people pay: Predicting the results of field experiments on TV fee enforcement5
Sharing responsibility for the good5
Nudges and peak pricing: A common pool resource energy conservation experiment5
Consumer inertia fosters product quality5
Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures5
Scoring rules in experimental procurement5
How gender and prosociality affect machine interaction in tax compliance: A game-theoretic experiment5
Book Review5
Reaching agreement on contribution behavior in different cultures-a public goods game with representatives in Japan and Germany5
Editorial Board5
Do giving voice and social information help in revising a misconception about rent–control?5
Exploring the demand for elective egg freezing: A laboratory experiment5
Drought risk attitudes in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Kenya4
Reciprocal reactions to (in)transparent task assignments: An experimental investigation4
Effects of externalities on emotions: A game-theoretic analysis4
A criticism of Bernheim & Sprenger's (2020) tests of rank dependence4
Overbidding and heterogeneous behavior in contest experiments:A meta-comment on cross-cultural differences4
Priming and the value of a statistical life: A cross country comparison4
Repugnant markets and preferences in public4
Be ambitious or lower your expectation: Goals as optimal reference points4
Portfolio decisions and perceived racial discrimination4
The collateral damages of lockdown policies: A review of the “The Great Covid Panic” by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker4
Effectiveness of the approval mechanism in a three-player common pool resource dilemma4
"Beat the market!" or "Take care of your savings": Can language in bank advertisements influence women's attitudes towards finance? An experimental comparison of different - inclusive - languages to c4
What drives drivers? Switching, learning, and the impact of claims in car insurance4
Heterogeneous productivity stabilizes public good contributions under certainty, uncertainty and ambiguity4
Price and saliency in health care: When can targeted nudges change behaviors?4
Survey evidence on core factors of behavioral biases4
The positionality of goods and the positional concern’s origin4
Lotto lotteries — Decision making under uncertainty when payoffs are unknown4
Early childhood discrimination: A comparison of countries4
An integrated model on purchase intentions of typical and tax-deductible saving products: The roles of retirement goal clarity and age4
Decision-makers are more impulsive on smartphones than on computers4
Sending emails to reduce medical costs? The effect of feedback on general practitioners’ claiming of fees4
Editorial Board4
Voluntary cooperation for mitigating collective-risk under spatial externalities4
Leader and citizens participation for the environment: Experimental evidence from Eastern Europe3
How to prevent destruction – On the malleability of anti-social behavior3
Compliance with pre-harvest interval rules in apple production—A comparative analysis of green nudges among fruit growers and agricultural students in Germany3
Nudging when the descriptive norm is low: Evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment3
A culture of cheating: The role of worldviews in preferences for honesty3
Pre-merger performance and merger success: An experimental approach3
Flight and the preferences for truth-telling: An experimental study among refugees and non-refugees in Syria, Jordan, and Germany3
Framing and subject pool effects in healthcare credence goods3
Increased cooperation in stochastic social dilemmas: Can it be explained by risk sharing?3
Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany3
Book Review3
Do you follow your head or your heart? The simultaneous impact of framing effects and incidental emotions on investment decisions3
Moral preferences in ultimatum and impunity games3
Determinants of inequality acceptability in a representative sample of the Spanish population3
Timing of rebates and generosity3
Status and reputation nudging3
Durable gifts are more common in committed (vs. New) relationships3
Are newly self-employed overly optimistic about their future well-being?3
Long-term relationships, group lending, and peer monitoring in microfinance: Experimental evidence3
The effect of name letter on market prices: Field experiments on seller behavior3
Competition and prosociality: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Ghana3
Deciding for others: Local public good contributions with intermediaries3
The interaction effect of green advertising appeal and monetary resource perception on consumers’ green purchase intention3
Is ambiguity aversion a preference? Ambiguity aversion without asymmetric information3
The effects of community-based signals on investment decisions in copy trading3
Remember me? The role of gender and racial attributes in memory3
Can reference-dependent loss aversion explain choice behaviour?3
The value of bad ratings: An experiment on the impact of distortions in reputation systems3
An experimental study of auctioneers’ and bidders’ preferences over corruption in auctions3
Climate change, tipping points, and economics3
Don’t leave your kid unattended? Sex differences in children’s competitiveness in presence of their guardian3
Environmental Edutainment Games and Pro-Environmental Behavior of Primary School Students: Evidence from a Field Experiment3
Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children: Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire3
The Ambiguity Box: A new tool to generate ambiguity in the lab3
The role of autonomy and reactance for nudging — Experimentally comparing defaults to recommendations and mandates3
Fifty years of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics: A bibliometric review3
Editorial Board3
Inflation expectations in the wake of the war in Ukraine3
The malleability of competitive preferences3
Communication and coordination in firms:A lab-in-the-field experiment with small manufacturers in Vietnam3
Choice heuristics and livestock farmers' preference heterogeneity for Rift Valley fever vaccines in Uganda3
Visual nudges: How deterrence and equity shape tax attitudes and behaviour in Rwanda3
What do economists teach about climate change? An analysis of introductory economics textbooks3
Testing models of complexity aversion2
Impact of development interventions on individual risk preferences: Evidence from a field-lab experiment and survey data2
The effect of heterogeneity and risk on co-operation: Experimental evidence2
The preoccupied parent2
Unearned Endowment and Charity Recipient Lead to Higher Donations: A Meta-Analysis of the Dictator Game Lab Experiments2
Is natural language processing the cheap charlie of analyzing cheap talk? A horse race between classifiers on experimental communication data2
Gender and beauty price discrimination in produce markets2
On the empirical validity of cumulative prospect theory: A response to the Wakker commentaries2
Book Review2
Conditioning competitive behaviour in experimental Bertrand markets through contextual frames2
You Can’t Hide Your Lying Eyes: Honesty Oaths and Misrepresentation2
Engaging academic staff in the quality assurance system in higher education: A field experiment2
Cooperative membership and exposure to role models: Implications for income and asset aspirations2
A comment on ‘growth and inequality in public good provision’: Testing the robustness and generalizability of dynamic public good games2
Examining affective partisan polarization through a novel behavioral experiment: The equality equivalency test in the United States (2019–2022)2
The effect of thinking style on dynamic systems performance: The mediating role of stock-flow understanding2
Editorial Board2
Extreme temperatures: Gender differences in well-being2
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger effect: Composite measures and heterogeneity by gender2
Wellbeing: Decision making and behavior during COVID-192
Psychosocial stress, hormones, and impulsivity/risk-taking in economic decision-making2
How time flies: Time perception and intertemporal choice2
Picture this: Making health insurance choices easier for those who need it2
Do crime victims lose trust in others? Evidence from Germany2
Reinvestigating Rk behavior in ring games2
COVID-19 and economic preferences: Evidence from a panel of cab drivers2
Best Practices for Reproducibility, Research Assessment Reforms, and Implications for Experimental Economists2
Measuring tree complexity with response times2
Preferred tax rates depend on the rates paid by the rich2
Do fans’ emotions influence charitable donations? Evidence from monetary and returnable cup donations in German soccer stadiums2
The income inequality trap: When redistributive preferences do not correct greater inequality2
Courtesy versus efficiency: Personal gifts and monetary gifts – Preferences and norms in Israeli society2
Anonymity and self-expression in online rating systems—An experimental analysis2
Signaling trustworthiness with the choice of a prosocial project: Theory and experiment2
Can attentional nudges improve efficiency of bilateral multi-attribute negotiations?2
Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes☆2
Future time reference and risk aversion2
Bonding by guilt: A resolution of the finite horizon prisoners’ dilemma2
Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages: Theory and experimental evidence2
We and It: An interdisciplinary review of the experimental evidence on how humans interact with machines2
Investors personality correlates with sustainability preferences in investment – A choice experiment with Spanish investors2
Does trust break even? A trust-game experiment with negative endowments2
Market concentration and the responsiveness of prices and mark-ups2
Women lean back when representing others in competitions2
Tax amnesties and the insurance effect: An experimental study2
Willingness to take financial risks and insurance holdings: A European survey2
Praise and cooperation: Investigating the effects of praise content and agency2
Behavioral consequences of income and expense shocks2
Expectations and social decision making: An investigation of gain and loss ultimatum games2
Information avoidance in a polarized society2
Gender, personality, and performance2
Economic incentives and political inequality in the management of environmental public goods2
Can a Catholic institution promote sustainable behavior? Field experimental evidence on donations for climate protection2
Trying to Make a Good First Impression: A Natural Field Experiment to Engage New Entrants to the Tax System2
The effect of disinformation about COVID-19 on consumer confidence: Insights from a survey experiment2
Diffusion of tax-related communication on social media2
Investigating inconsistencies in complex lotteries: The role of cognitive skills of low-numeracy subjects2
How do informal norms affect rule compliance: Experimental evidence2
The impact of a sense of belonging on truth-telling and the role of gender2
Let's think about the future: The effect of positive and negative future primes on pro-environmental behavior2
Editorial Board2
Probabilistic ambiguity, outcome ambiguity or both: Does it matter for the decision-maker?2
Gen Z and financial education: Evidence from a randomized control trial in the South of Italy2
Selection into experiments: New evidence on the role of preferences, cognition, and recruitment protocols2
Risk and Prior Outcome Effects on Managerial Decision Making2
Psychological momentum among non-experts: Evidence from club golfers2
Experimental test of the effects of punishment probability and size on the decision to take a bribe2
Occupational licensing and job satisfaction: Evidence from US data2
Admission quota schemes and regional inequality2
Editorial Board2
An anger premium: An experiment on the role of counterpart emotions in coordination2
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?2
Citizen candidates in the lab: Rules, costs, and positions2
Uncertainty and climate change: The IPCC approach vs decision theory2
Book Review1
Assessing risk attitudes among physicians, medical students, and non-medical students with experimental data1
The social pay gap across occupations: Experimental evidence1
Charitable giving with stochastic income1
Norm compliance in an uncertain world1
Incomplete promises and the norm of keeping promises1
Subject confusion and task non-completion: Methodological insights from an artefactual field experiment with adolescents in India1
Does college education make women less likely to marry? evidence from the Chinese higher education expansion1
Nudging smokers away from lighting up: A meta-analysis of framing effect in current smokers1
Does time series momentum also exist outside traditional financial markets? Near-laboratory evidence from sports betting1
Social pension reform and poverty among older people in Hong Kong: Triple difference estimations1
Using pandemic behavior to test the external validity of laboratory measurements of risk aversion and guilt1
Stated preferences outperform elicited preferences for predicting reported compliance with COVID-19 prophylactic measures1
How people pay each other: Data, theory, and calibrations1
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