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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...

Nina Hestermann, Yves Le Yaouanq, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 129, n. 103569, October 2020

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this “meat paradox” using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...

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...

Christian Bontemps, and Rohit Kumar

vol. 218, n. 2, October 2020, pp. 373–389

In this paper, we consider inference procedures for entry games with complete information. Due to the presence of multiple equilibria, we know that such a model may be set identified without imposing further restrictions. We complete the model with the unknown selection mechanism and characterize...

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...

Christoph Mikulaschek, Saurabh Pant, and Beza Tesfaye

vol. 64, n. 4, October 2020, pp. 773–790

The 'hearts and minds' model of combating rebellions holds that civilians are less likely to support violent opposition groups if the government provides public services and security. Building on this model, we argue that a political event that raises popular expectations of future public service...

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...

Anna D’Annunzio, M. Mardan, and Antonio Russo

vol. 51, n. 3, October 2020, pp. 786–804

Marc Ivaldi, Liberty Mncube, and Marina Sánchez del Villar

vol. 3, n. 95906, September 2020

In this paper, we use a differentiated-products setup to assess the impact on competition of a merger between Greif and Rheem South Africa. Both parties are active in the industrial packaging products sector. The parties’ activities overlap, among others, in the production of large steel drums. Our...

Stéphane Lemarié, Valérie Orozco, Jean-Pierre Butault, Antonio Musolesi, Michel Simioni, and Bertrand Schmitt

September 2020

This paper analyses the economic impact of agricultural research on productivity in France over the period 1959-2012. Adopting a dynamic time series model, we provide evidence that the impact of French agricultural research is in the range of values estimated for other countries, with the estimated...