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Carmen Hové, Benjamin C. Trumble, Amy Anderson, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, and Aaron D. Blackwell
n. 1, July 2020, pp. 114–128
Background and objectives: Among placental mammals, females undergo immunological shifts during pregnancy to accommodate the fetus (i.e. fetal tolerance). Fetal tolerance has primarily been characterized within post-industrial populations experiencing evolutionarily novel conditions (e.g. reduced...
Meng-Wen Tsou, Jin-Tan Liu, James K. Hammitt, Chyi-Horng Lu, and Szu-Yu Zoe Kao
vol. 71, n. 3, July 2020, pp. 379 – 403
We estimate the effect of prenatal exposure to radiation on infant health. By exploiting the 1983 Taiwanese radiation‐contaminated buildings accident as a natural experiment, we compare birth outcomes between siblings and cousins exposed to different radiation levels. Given the 1983 accident was...
J. Gilhodes, Florence Dalenc, Jocelyn Gal, C. Zemmour, Eve Leconte, Jean Marie Boher, and Thomas Filleron
vol. 2020, n. 6795392, July 2020, p. 13 pages
Over the last decades, molecular signatures have become increasingly important in oncology and are opening up a new area of personalized medicine. Nevertheless, biological relevance and statistical tools necessary for the development of these signatures have been called into question in the...
Allison Loconto, Marion Desquilbet, Denis Couvet, Bruno Dorin, and Théo Moreau
vol. 96, n. 103610, July 2020
Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 on one hand, and preserving the erosion of biodiversity on the other hand, are two shared policy goals at the global level. Yet while these goals are clear, they are to some extent in conflict, because agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss, and the path...
Christian Gouriéroux, Alain Montfort, and Jean-Paul Renne
vol. 87, n. 4, July 2020, pp. 1915–1953
Bård Harstad
vol. 128, n. 7, July 2020, pp. 2653–2689
A growing body of evidence suggests that individuals have time-inconsistent preferences. Even when they do not, policy makers who fear to loose elections will apply discount rates that decrease in relative time when they consider investment projects. To ináuence future choices, current strategic...
François Salanié, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 45, n. 2, July 2020, pp. 104–113
Governments sometimes encourage or impose individual self-protection measures, such as wearing a protective mask in public during an epidemic. However, by reducing the risk of being infected by others, more self-protection may lead each individual to go outside the house more often. In the absence...
David Martimort, and Perrin Lefebvre
vol. 82, n. 3, July 2020, pp. 1026–1043
Jérôme Bolte, Zheng Chen, and Edouard Pauwels
vol. 182, July 2020, pp. 1–36
Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The resulting method, called the Multiprox method, consists in...
Christian Gollier
n. 34, July 2020, pp. 1–14
Most integrated models of the Covid pandemic have been developed under the assumption that the policy-sensitive reproduction number is certain. The decision to exit from the lockdown has been made in most countries without knowing the reproduction number that would prevail after the deconfinement....
