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Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Marie-Louise Leroux, and Pierre-Carl Michaud

vol. 44, n. 2, April 2019, pp. 183–215

This paper reports survey evidence on long-term care (LTC) risk misperceptions and demand for long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Canada. We study three LTC risks: needing help with at least one activity of daily living, needing access to a nursing home, and living to the age of 85. We contrast...

Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-François Bonnefon

vol. 32, n. 2, April 2019, pp. 179–193

We extend research on charity donations by exploring an everyday tactic for increasing compliance: asking politely. We consider three possible effects of politeness on charity donations: a positive effect, a negative effect, and a wiggle‐room effect where the perception of the request is adjusted...

Pierre Pestieau, Justina Klimaviciute, and Jérôme Schoenmaeckers

vol. 44, n. 2, April 2019, pp. 216–230

This article studies long-term care (LTC) insurance in the presence of family altruism. We first explore whether family solidarity affects the application of Arrow’s (1963) deductible theorem, shown to apply in models without family in earlier work. We find that Arrow’s theorem generally holds, but...

Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, Nicholas Christakis, Iain Couzin, Matthew O. Jackson, Nicholas Jennings, Ece Kamar, Isabel Kloumann, Hugo Larochelle, Hugo Lazer, Richard McElreath, Alan Mislove, David Parkes, Alex Pentland, Margaret Roberts, Azim Shariff, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Michael Wellman

vol. 568, April 29, 2019, pp. 477–486

Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits and minimize their harms. Here we...

Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay

vol. 31, n. 1, March 2019, pp. 71–96

This paper explores pathways that underlie the diffusion of women’s participation in the labor force across generations. I leverage a severe exogenous shock to the sex ratio, World War I in France, which generated an upward shift in female labor force participation after the war. This shock to...

Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 107, n. 3, March 2019, pp. 502–504

Everyone agrees that autonomous cars ought to save lives. Even if the cars do not live up to the most optimistic estimates of eliminating 90% of traffic fatalities [1], eliminating at least some traffic fatalities is one of the key promises of automated driving. Indeed, the first two principles of...

Rodrigo Montes, Wilfried Sand-Zantman, and Tommaso M. Valletti

vol. 65, n. 3, March 2019, pp. 955–1453

This paper investigates the effects of price discrimination on prices, profits and consumer surplus, when one or more competing firms can use consumers' private information to price discriminate and consumers can pay a privacy cost to avoid it. While a monopolist always benefits from higher privacy...

Daniel L. Chen

vol. 27, n. 1, March 2019, pp. 15–42

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing efficiency and fairness of law. Judicial analytics can assess extra-legal factors that influence decisions. Behavioral anomalies in judicial decision-making offer an intuitive understanding of feature relevance, which can then be used...

Christian Bontemps

vol. 101, n. 1, March 2019, pp. 146–159

This paper considers moment-based tests applied to estimated quantities. We propose a general class of transforms of moments to handle the parameter uncertainty problem. The construction requires only a linear correction that can be implemented in-sample and remains valid for some extended families...

Luis Cabral, and David Salant

vol. 176, March 2019, pp. 1–4

We consider the problem of a seller who owns K identical objects and N bidders each willing to buy at most one unit. The seller may auction the objects at two different dates. Assuming that buyer valuations are uniform and independent across periods, we show that the seller is better off by...