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Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 211, n. 2, 2017, pp. 1–34
Cyril Favre-Martinoz, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Jean-François Beaumont, and David Haziza
Maurizio Vichi (ed.), 2017
The classical tools of robust statistics have to be adapted to the finite population context. Recently, a unified approach for robust estimation in surveys has been introduced. It is based on an influence measure called the conditional bias that allows to take into account the particular finite...
Fabrice Collard, Harris Dellas, and G. Tavlas
vol. 84, n. 336, 2017, pp. 797–819
Alessandro Bonatti, and Johannes Hörner
vol. 12, n. 1, 2017, pp. 425–475
This paper analyzes the impact of market structure on career concerns. Effort increases the probability that a skilled agent achieves a one-time breakthrough. Wages are based on assessed ability and on expected output. For any wage, the agent works too little, too late. Under short-term contracts,...
Hélène Juillard, Guillaume Chauvet, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen
vol. 112, n. 518, 2017, pp. 850–858
The cross-classified sampling design consists in drawing samples from a twodimension population, independently in each dimension. Such design is commonly used in consumer price index surveys and has been recently applied to draw a sample of babies in the French Longitudinal Survey on Childhood, by...
Jean-François Bonnefon, and Sylvie Borau
vol. 36, n. 3, 2017, pp. 457–476
Advertisements often display ideal female bodies which create unattainable standards of beauty, generating body anxiety and disorders in female viewers. Accordingly, public health concerns would encourage the use of natural, unedited models in advertisements. However, the advertising performance of...
Frédéric Cherbonnier, Marc Ivaldi, Catherine Muller-Vibes, and Karine Van Der Straeten
2017
Bruno Jullien, Jérôme Pouyet, and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
vol. 48, n. 3, 2017, pp. 733–748
We analyze early contracting when a seller has private information on the future gains from trade and the buyer can bypass. Despite ex-post trade occurring under complete information and being efficient, early negotiation with an informed seller allows the uninformed buyer to improve her bargaining...
Stefan Ambec
T. Altenburg, and C. Assmann (eds.), UN Environment, chapter 3, 2017
Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys, and Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 64, n. 4, 2017, pp. 231–239
Economic interactions often imply to gauge the trustworthiness of others. Recent studies showed that when making trust decisions in economic games, people have some accuracy in detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown partners. Here we provide evidence that this face-based...
