Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous-both to themselves and society at
large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide …

Individuals' judgments about risk are viewed as a fundamental element of most theoretical
models of health and risk behavior, including Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1994), the …

This Article discusses the deterrence of crime through sanctions. It begins with a brief
intellectual history of deterrence theory in the work of Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy …

To predict choice behavior, the standard practice of economists has been to infer decision
processes from data on observed choices. When decision makers act with partial …

The aftermath of September 11th highlights the need to understand how emotion affects
citizens' responses to risk. It also provides an opportunity to test current theories of such …

Crime, smoking, drug use, alcoholism, reckless driving, and many other unhealthy patterns
of behavior that play out over a lifetime often debut during adolescence. Avoiding risks or …

This paper studies how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. I
collect a data set of Northwestern University sophomores that contains their subjective …

Contemporary perspectives on age differences in risk taking, informed by advances in
developmental neuroscience, have emphasized the need to examine the ways in which …

This book is a full-scale exposition of Charles Manski's new methodology for analyzing
empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers first ask what …

Economists commonly suppose that persons have probabilistic expectations for uncertain
events, yet empirical research measuring expectations was long rare. The inhibition against …