Jason Aimone
Associate Professor - Economics
Contact Information
Office Hours
FALL 2023
TR 8:20am - 10:50am
Please schedule office hour visits ahead of time
Work Experience
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Associate Professor, Baylor University (August 2018 - Present)
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Project/Research Fellow, Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise (November 2013 - Present)
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Affiliated Researcher, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (June 2013 - 2016)
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Assistant Professor, Baylor University (June 2013 - July 2018)
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Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Veterans Affiars Medical Center, Salem, Virginia (June 2011 - 2014)
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Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (June 2011 - June 2013)
Consulting
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Government, Texas Senator Brian Birdwell, Texas (November 20, 2020 - March 30, 2021)
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Economic Advisor, Mark Tippetts, Texas (May 2018 - November 2018)
Awards and Honors
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Vice Provost of Research Rising Star, Baylor University Office of the Vice Provost of Research (2018)
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Vice Provost of Research Rising Star, Baylor University Office of the Vice Provost of Research (2017)
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Vice Provost of Research Rising Star, Baylor University Office of the Vice Provost of Research (September 2016)
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Vice Provost of Research Rising Star, Baylor University Office of the Vice Provost of Research (September 2015)
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Certificate for Exceptional Research, Hankamer (2014)
Licensures and Certifications
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Hipa and Privacy Training, Veterans Administration (April 8, 2015 - Present)
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VA Privacy and Information Security Awareness and Rules of Behavior, Veterans Administration (April 8, 2015 - Present)
Professional Memberships
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American Economic Association
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Economic Science Association
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Southern Economic Association
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Texas Experimental Association
Publications
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Prosecutor Plea Bargaining and Conviction Rate Structure: Evidence from an Experiment,"
Public Choice, (2023) (coauthors: Jason Ralston, Chuck North, Lucas Rentschler).
"An Experimental Exploration of Reasonable Doubt,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2023) (coauthors: Stanton Hudja, Wilson Law, Jason Ralston, Lucas Rentschler, Chuck North).
"Vaccine Hesitancy and Betrayal Aversion,"
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, No. 50, (May 2022), pp. 794–804 (coauthors: Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Esha Dwibedi, Sheryl Ball).
"Austrian Critiques of Behavioral Economics: Common Misconceptions and Low Hanging Fruit,"
: Emerald Publishing, January 2022.
"My Risk, Your Risk, and Our Risk: Costly Deviation in Delegated Risk-Taking Environments,"
Journal of Behavioral Finance, The, (2022) (coauthors: Xiaofei Pan).
"The aspirational income hypothesis: On the limits of the relative income hypothesis,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 182, (February 2021), pp. 229-247 (coauthors: Elias Kahil, Daniel Houser, Siyu Wang, Deborah Martinez).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Texas lawmakers should pass bill to make jurors less biased," (2021) (coauthors: Lucas Rentschler).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Trust and Risk: Neuroeconomic foundations of trust based on social risk,"
: Cambridge University Press, 2021 (coauthors: Nina Lauharatanahirun).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Social Distance vs Social Distancing," Vol. 2, (April 2020).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Blameable and imperfect: A study of risk-taking and accountability,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 172, (April 2020), pp. 196-216 (coauthors: Xiaofei Pan).
"Dishonest Behavior: Sin Big or Go Home,"
Economics Letters, Vol. 186, No. 108779, (January 2020) (coauthors: Brittany Ward, James West).
"Priming the Jury by Asking for Donations: An Empirical and Experimental Study,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 160, (April 2019), pp. 158-167 (coauthors: Chuck North, Lucas Rentschler).
"Altruistic Punishment in Elections,"
European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 53, (2018), pp. 149-160 (coauthors: Luigi Butera, Thomas Stratmann).
"‘Nudging’ Risky Decision-Making: How Modifying Information Order Influences Decision-Making under Risk,"
Economics Letters, Vol. 149, (December 2016), pp. 161–163 (coauthors: Sheryl Ball, Brooks King-Casas).
"It's Not What You See but How You See It: Using Eye-tracking to Study the Risky Decision-Making Process,"
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, (2016) (coauthors: Sheryl Ball, Brooks King-Casas).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Some Rules for Behavioural Science," (October 2015).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure,"
PLOS ONE, (September 2015) (coauthors: Sheryl Ball, Brooks King-Casas).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Neuroeconomics and Human Biology,"
: Oxford Press, August 2015 (coauthors: John Komlos, Inas Rashad Kelly, Daniel Houser).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Neural Substrates of Betrayal Aversion,"
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, (May 2014) (coauthors: Daniel Houser, Bernd Weber).
John Dickhaut, Daniel Houser, Jason A. Aimone, Dorina Tila, Cathleen Johnson, High stakes behavior with low payoffs: Inducing preferences with Holt–Laury gambles, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 94, October 2013, Pages 183-189, ISSN 0167-2681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.03.036
Jason A. Aimone,
Laurence R. Iannaccone,
Michael D. Makowsky,
and Jared Rubin
Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs Review of Economic Studies (2013) 80 (4): 1215-1236 first published online June 3, 2013 doi:10.1093/restud/rdt017
Jason A. Aimone, Daniel Houser, Harnessing the benefits of betrayal aversion, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 89, May 2013, Pages 1-8, ISSN 0167-2681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.02.001
"What you don’t know won’t hurt you: a laboratory analysis of betrayal aversion,"
Experimental Economics, Vol. 15, No. 4, (December 2012), pp. 571-588 (coauthors: Daniel Houser).
Aimone JA, Houser D (2011) Beneficial Betrayal Aversion. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17725. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017725
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Soliciting donations from jurors can bias criminal court verdicts," (coauthors: Lucas Rentschler).
Presentations and Proceedings
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Macro-level institutions and micro-level economic behavior: A surprising meta-meta analysis of 1142 experimental studies," presented at the Agricultural Economics Departmental Seminar, College Station, TX, September 2022.
"Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment," presented at the 2022 Public Choice Society Conference, Nashville, March 2022.
"Does Economic Freedom Promote Prosociality and Nash Play? A Meta-Meta-Analysis of Experimental Economics Studies and Economic Freedom," presented at the North American ESA Conference, Tucson, October 2021.
"Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment," presented at the North American ESA Conference, Tucson, October 2021.
"Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment," presented at the 2021 ESA Global Online Around-the-Clock Conference, Virtual, July 2021.
"Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment," presented at the Western Economic Association International Virtual International Conference 2021, Virtual, March 2021.
"Economics Experiments on the Criminal Justice System," presented at the Economics Department Seminar, Vienna, Austria, December 2020.
"Economics Experiments on the Criminal Justice System," presented at the Economics Department Seminar, Wichita, KS, October 2020.
"The Innocence Problem: An Experimental Laboratory Study of the Impact on Economic Decisions and Outcomes of False Accusations and Convictions in the Criminal Justice System," presented at the 2019 regional meetings of the Mont Pelerin Society, Fort Worth, October 2019.
"Risk, Ambiguity, And False Confessions: An experimental laboratory study of the innocence problem," presented at the 3rd Behavioral and Experimental Public Choice Workshop, Cork, Ireland, October 2019.
"Risk, Ambiguity, And False Confessions: An experimental laboratory study of the innocence problem," presented at the Economics Department Seminar, October 2019.
"Crying Wolf:Type I/II Error Preferences," presented at the North American ESA Conference, Los Angeles, October 2019.