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Sheina Lew-Levy, Vidrige H. Kandza, Haneul Jang, Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila, Derlan Bihoundou Mouketou, Chelvin Destin Siassia Vindou, Evrahd Ngalekandza, Brel Koubemba, Aise Pie X Lendzingoud, Roglane Goulou, Amandine E. Visine, Adam H. Boyette, and Lee T. Gettler

vol. 31, n. S2, September 2025, pp. 118–143

A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market-based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin. Adolescence is...

Haneul Jang, and Daniel Redhead

vol. 4, n. 9, September 2025

Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and oblique transmission—have been studied for decades, how these mechanisms change across the life course, beyond childhood, remains unclear. Furthermore, it is...

Daniel L. Chen

n. ewaf011, September 2025

During World War I, the British Army relied on the death penalty to enforce strict discipline, handing down over 3000 death sentences for desertion and other offenses. Yet only around 12% of these sentences were actually carried out; the remaining 88% were quietly commuted to lesser punishments....

Narhulan Halimbekh, Olympia Campbell, Yishan Xie, Anar Erjan, Anna Dmitrieva, Almagul Aisarieva, Zhamila Zhalieva, Damira Toktorova, Cholpon Kabylovna Sooronbaeva, and Ruth Mace

vol. 36, September 2025, p. 382–402

Bride kidnapping, where Women are abducted for marriage, persists in Kyrgyzstan despite being illegal. Although it is estimated that up to one-third of marriages in Kyrgyzstan result from abduction, the true prevalence of this practice is unknown. Estimates are based on self-reporting of a practice...

Tiziano De Angelis, Fabien Gensbittel, and Stéphane Villeneuve

September 2025

We construct Nash equilibria in feedback form for a class of two-person stochastic games of singular control with absorption, arising from a stylized model for corporate finance. More precisely, the paper focusses on a strategic dynamic game in which two financially-constrained firms operate in the...

Tiziana Assenza, Alberto Cardaci, and D. Delli Gatti

vol. 20, n. 4, September 2025, revised June 10, 2026

Existing evidence suggests that individuals often misperceive the value of their wealth. We examine the existence, direction, and magnitude of these misperceptions through a laboratory experiment. Our findings indicate that variations in the leverage ratio (the ratio of liabilities to assets)...

Antonio Musolesi, Giada Andrea Prete, and Michel Simioni

September 2025, revised June 10, 2026

This paper examines the contribution of infrastructure to aggregate productivity. We address some complex and relevant issues, namely functional form, nonstationary variables and cross-sectional dependence. We adopt the CCE framework and consider both parametric and nonparametric specifications,...

Nils Köbis, Zoe Rahwan, Raluca Rilla, Bramantyo Ibrahim Supriyatno, Clara Bersch, Tamer Ajaj, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

September 2025, revised June 10, 2026

Although artificial intelligence enables productivity gains from delegating tasks to machines1, it may facilitate the delegation of unethical behaviour2. This risk is highly relevant amid the rapid rise of ‘agentic’ artificial intelligence systems3,4. Here we demonstrate this risk by having human...

Abdelaati Daouia, Gilles Stupfler, and Antoine Usseglio-Carleve

vol. 14, n. 3, September 2025

The use of the Expected Shortfall as a solution for various deficiencies of quantiles has gained substantial traction in the field of risk assessment over the last 20 years. Existing approaches to its inference at extreme levels remain limited to distributions that are both heavy-tailed and have a...

Sylvie Borau, and Robert Mai

September 2025

The growing gender polarization in consumers’ pro-environmental engagement—with women more engaged than men— suggests that organizations should consider gender a key criterion when targeting their cause-related marketing and social advocacy campaigns for environmental causes. However, multilevel...