McDonald, R., & Powdthavee, N. (2022). The shadow prices of voluntary caregiving: Using well-being panel data to estimate the cost of informal care. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 1-30.
Arroyos-Calvera, D., Covey, J., & McDonald, R. (2023). Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Social Science & Medicine, 324, 115855.
Bartczak, A., Budzinski, W., Chilton, S. M., McDonald, R., & Nielsen, J. S. (2021). Altruism and efficient allocations in three-generation households. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 62, 113-135.
McDonald, R., Mullett, T. L., & Tsuchiya, A. (2020). Understanding the composite dimensions of the EQ-5D: an experimental approach. Social Science & Medicine, (265) 113323. (available here).
Chilton, S., Baker, R., Donaldson, C., Jones-Lee, M., Mason, H., McDonald, R., Metcalf, H., Nielsen, J.S., Spackman, M. (2020) Valuation of risks to life and health: monetary Value of a Life Year (VOLY). Research report for the UK Government (available here.)
Arroyos-Calvera, D., Covey, J., Loomes, G., & McDonald, R. (2019). The efficiency-equity trade-off, self-interest, and moral principles in health and safety valuation. Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112477. (available here).
McDonald, R., Chilton, S., Jones-Lee, M., & Metcalf, H., (2017) Evidence of variable discount rates and non-standard discounting in mortality risk valuation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 82, 152-167.
McDonald, R., Chilton, S., Jones-Lee, M. & Metcalf, H. (2016), Dread and Latency Impacts on a VSL for Cancer Risk Reductions. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52, 1-25.
Chilton, S., Jones-Lee, M., McDonald, R. & Metcalf, H. (2012), Does the WTA/WTP ratio diminish as the severity of a health complaint is reduced? Testing for smoothness of the underlying utility of wealth function. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 45, 1-24.
Read, D., McDonald, R., & Cubitt, R. (2023). Comparison‐specific preferences: The attentional dilution effect for delay and risk. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(5), e2348.
Cubitt, R., McDonald, R. & Read, D. (2018), Time matters less when outcomes differ: Uni-modal versus cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice. Management Science 64 (2) 873-887.
Read, D, McDonald, R and He, L. (2018) Intertemporal Choice: Choosing for the Future. in Lewis, A (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behavior, 2nd edition Cambridge University Press, pp.167-197
Arroyos-Calvera, D., Isoni, A., Loomes, G., & McDonald, R. (2024). Does the Allais Paradox Survive with Non-Monetary Consequences?. Economics Letters, 112034.
Arroyos-Calvera, D., Lohse, J. & McDonald, R. (2024) Beyond Social Influence: Examining the Efficacy of Non-Social Recommendations. European Economic Review 168, 104801
Arroyos-Calvera, D., Drouvelis, M., Lohse, J., & McDonald, R. (2023). Improving compliance with COVID-19 guidance: a workplace field experiment. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-23.
Skatova, A., McDonald, R., Ma, S., & Maple, C. (2023). Unpacking privacy: Valuation of personal data protection. Plos one, 18(5), e0284581.
Burro, G., McDonald, R., Read, D. and Taj, U. (2022). Patience decreases with age for the poor but not for the rich: an international comparison. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 193, 596-621.
Mullett, T. L., McDonald, R. L., & Brown, G. D. (2020). "Cooperation in Public Goods Games Predicts Behavior in Incentive‐Matched Binary Dilemmas: Evidence for Stable Prosociality". Economic Inquiry, 58(1), 67-85. (available here).
2018 - HSE Scoping Study: The provision of a scoping study on the valuation of risks to life and health: the monetary value of a life year (VOLY) – with R. Baker, S. Chilton, C. Donaldson, H. Mason, H. Metcalf & J. Seested Nielsen.
2017 - ESRC New Investigator Grant: Discounting for delay and the value of a life year lost to air pollution
2016 - National Science Center Poland (contract 016/21/B/HS4/01992) Resource allocation in three-generation households – with A. Bartcak, S. Chilton and J. Nielsen
2019 - University of Birmingham Business School / Lloyds Bank Hiding Behind AI – with J. Lohse, D. Arroyos-Calvera, M. McGowan, S. Magrizos
2017 - EPSRC Petras hub Value of Personal Data in the Internet of Things: – with A. Skatova and C. Maple
2013 - 2017 various small grants awarded by the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science contract ES/K002201/1. co-investigators: S. Bhatia, G. Brown, R. Cubitt, T. Mullett, D. Read and A. Tsuchiya.
2010 - ESRC/Health and Safety Executive collaborative PhD studentship with research supported by Health and Safety Executive (contract ND2484) Latency, dread and cancer risks – with S. Chilton, H. Metcalf and M. W. Jones-Lee
“What Do Information Choices Tell Us About Generosity? Sorting and Preference Construction”. with Arroyos-Calvera, D., Rigal, B. and Read, D. (R&R at JEBO)
“Valuing gains in life expectancy”. with Chilton, S. and Nielsen, J. S. (R&R at Risk Analysis)
“The impact of income shocks on generosity towards elderly family members: An experimental approach”. With Bartczak, A., Chilton, S., Nielsen, J.S., Starzykowska, N.
“The Swing Voter's Curse Revisited: Transparency's Impact on Committee Voting” with Bandyopadhyay, S., Deb, M. and Lohse, J.
“A discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences for sharing data online” with Skatova, A. & Maple, C.
“Absolute groupishness and the demand for information” with Lohse, J.
“Discounting for delay and the value of a life year lost due to air pollution”, with Arroyos-Calvera, D., Chilton, S., Metcalf, H. and Nielsen, J.
“Discrimination during Brexit?” with Drouvelis, M., Lohse, J. and Mohtashami Borzadararan, H.