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Karine Van Der Straeten, Rumilda Cañete, Stéphane Straub, and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

vol. 179, November 2020, pp. 223–239

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that giving voters more power – both formally through the use of more “open” electoral systems and informally through easier access to information on politicians’ wrongdoings – will necessarily result in them voting corrupt politicians out of office....

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer, and Kerstin Roeder

vol. 130, n. 103589, November 2020

We study long-term care (LTC) choices by families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC can be provided either informally by children, or formally at home or in an institution. A social norm implies that daughters suffer a psychological cost when they provide less informal care than the average...

Arnaud Tognetti, Valérie Durand, Mélissa Barkat-Defradas, and Astrid Hopfensitz

vol. 111, n. 4, November 2020, pp. 823–839

The sound of the voice has several acoustic features that influence the perception of how cooperative the speaker is. It remains unknown, however, whether these acoustic features are associated with actual cooperative behaviour. This issue is crucial to disentangle whether inferences of traits from...

Christian Gollier

vol. 70, n. 4, November 2020, pp. 913–941

We assume that the ex-post utility of an agent facing a menu of lotteries depends upon the actual payoff together with its forgone best alternative, thereby allowing for the expost emotion of regret. An increase in the risk of regret is obtained when the actual payoff and its forgone best...

Jad Beyhum

vol. 24, November 2020, pp. 688–702

This paper considers the problem of inference in a linear regression model with outliers where the number of outliers can grow with sample size but their proportion goes to 0. We apply an estimator penalizing the `1-norm of a random vector which is non-zero for outliers. We derive rates of...

Michael Gurven, Thomas S. Kraft, Sarah Alami, Adrian Juan Copajira, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, Adrian Jaeggi, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Edmond Seabright, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 6, n. 44, October 2020

Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined over the past two centuries in the United States, coinciding with reductions in infection and increasing life expectancy. The generality of and reasons behind this phenomenon have not yet been well...

Megan Arnot, Eva Brandl, Olk Campbell, Yuan Chen, Juan Du, Mark Dyble, Erhao Ge, Emily Emmott, Luke Kretschmer, Ruth Mace, Alberto Micheletti, Sarah Nila, Sarah Peacey, Hanzhi Zhang, and Gul Deniz Salali

n. eoaa038, October 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology, and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focussing squarely on ‘proximate’ determinants of...

Jihyun Kim, and Nour Meddahi

vol. 218, n. 2, October 2020, pp. 690–713

Nowadays, a common method to forecast integrated variance is to use the fitted value of a simple OLS autoregression of the realized variance. However, non-parametric estimates of the tail index of this realized variance process reveal that its second moment is possibly unbounded. In this case, the...

Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 24, n. 12, October 2020, pp. 1019–1027

Intelligent machines do not really think ‘fast and slow’ as per dual-process models of human psychology, but this analogy can impact the decisions of various stakeholders. These stakeholders include engineers, user experience designers, regulators and ethicists, and the end users who interact with...

Anders Bondemark, Henrik Andersson, Anders Wretstrand, and Karin Brundell-Freij

vol. 70, October 2020

One of the reasons to subsidise public transport is to improve the mobility of low-income groups by providing affordable public transport; however, the literature describes a situation whereby those with a low income are unable to afford the cheapest tickets per trip, i.e. travelcards, as they...