
Don Ross

Glenn Harrison

Since 2010, I’ve been working with Glenn W. Harrison and various teams of co-researchers sponsored by CEAR to design and analyse laboratory experiments exploring responses to risk in different groups of people. Our approach emphasises the close co-integration of economic theory, econometric models and techniques, and experimental design that allows subjects to reveal rich cross-individual variety in responses. We’ve examined risky choice patterns related to gambling, smoking addiction, financial planning and investment, the Covid-19 pandemic, and responses to cognitive tests and options to compete, among other topics.
Links to some selected articles
The psychology of human risk preferences and vulnerability to scare-mongers
The empirical adequacy of cumulative prospect theory and its implications for normative assessment
Small stakes risk aversion in the laboratory
Varieties of paternalism and the heterogeneity of utility structures
Disordered gambling prevalence
Risk preferences, time preferences, and smoking behavior
The risk of gambling problems in the general population
Gender, confidence, and the mismeasure of intelligence, competitiveness and literacy