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Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani, and Shiva Shekhar
vol. 71, n. 4, April 2025, pp. 3340–3356
We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogeneous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...
George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew
vol. 73, n. 3, April 2025
We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...
Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen, and Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 13, n. 2, April 2025, pp. 337–353
Rey Dang, L'hocine Houanti, Michel Simioni, and Jean-Michel Sahut
vol. 347, April 2025, p. 333–365
Due to a contrasting empirical literature, we revisit the influence of board gender diversity (BGD) on corporate social performance (CSP) by carefully considering the thorny issue of endogeneity, which plagues this matter. Building on stakeholder theory (Freeman, Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic...
Olivier De Groote
vol. 43, n. 2, April 2025
I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex ante evaluation of a policy that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically...
Laura Doval, and Alex Smolin
vol. 22, n. 2, March 2025, pp. 56–65
In this letter, we summarize our recent work on the welfare impact of recommendation algorithms and propose questions for further study. We model recommendation algorithms as an information structure, which shapes how a third party takes actions that affect the welfare of different individuals in a...
Christian Bontemps, Jean-Pierre Florens, and Nour Meddahi
vol. 248, March 2025
In this paper, we consider the problem of ecological inference when one observes the conditional distributions of Y|W and Z|W from aggregate data and attempts to infer the conditional distribution of Y|Z without observing Y and Z in the same sample. First, we show that this problem can be...
Luc Attia, Lyuben Lichev, Dieter Mitsche, Raimundo Saona, and Bruno Ziliotto
March 2025
Wei Lu, and Daniel L. Chen
vol. 20(3), n. e0318790., March 2025
This study explores politically motivated reasoning among U.S. Circuit Court judges over the past 120 years, examining their writing style and use of previous case citations in judicial opinions. Employing natural language processing and supervised machine learn- ing, we scrutinize how judges’...
Veronika Czellar, René Garcia, and François Le Grand
vol. 248, n. 105867, March 2025
We propose an asset pricing model featuring time-varying limited participation in both bond and stock markets and household heterogeneity. Households participate in financial markets with a certain probability that depends on their individual income and on asset market conditions. We use indirect...
