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Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay

vol. 61, n. 3, 2017, pp. 624–641

Influential recent scholarship assumes that authoritarian rulers act as perfect agents of economic elites, foreclosing the possibility that economic elites may at times prefer democracy absent a popular threat from below. Motivated by a puzzling set of democratic transitions, we relax this...

Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Bennett Shaywitz, John Holahan, Karen Marchione, Reissa Michaels, Sally Shaywitz, and James K. Hammitt

vol. 8, n. 1, 2017, pp. 24–48

While much is known about dyslexia in school-age children and adolescents, less is known about its effects on quality of life in adults. Using data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study we provide the first estimates of the monetary value of improving reading, speaking, and cognitive skills to...

Shrinivas Badiger, Jacques Eric Bergez, Delphine Leenhardt, Marion Robert, Laurent Ruiz, Muddu Sekhar, Alban Thomas, and M. Willaume

vol. 9, n. 51, 2017, pp. 1–21

Farmers’ production decisions and agricultural practices directly and indirectly influence the quantity and quality of natural resources, some being depleted common resources such as groundwater. Representing farming systems while accounting for their flexibility is needed to evaluate targeted,...

Liliane Bonnal, Pascal Favard, and Domenico Polloni

vol. 37, n. 3, 2017, pp. 1630–1643

In spite of undeniable recent progress, malaria today represents one of the global public health issues making the greatest impact on the economy. The present study carries out on the basis of the malaria indicator survey conducted in Cameroon in 2011. Only children under six years old are...

Estelle Malavolti, and Frédéric Marty

vol. 25, 2017, pp. 30–40

A lot of cases had arouse in the past decade about agreements between regional airports and low-cost carriers. These agreements are challenged on the basis of the State Aids European control as they rise concerns not only about competition distortions between airlines but also about fiscal...

William Gehrlein, Michel Le Breton, and Dominique Lepelley

vol. 49, 2017, pp. 315–321

The purpose of this note is to compute the probability of logrolling for three different probabilistic cultures. The primary finding is that the restriction of preferences to be in accord with the condition of separable preferences creates enough additional structure among voters' preference...

Michel Cavagnac, and Guillaume Cheikbossian

S. Çağatay (ed.), 2017

This chapter analyzes the stability of international environmental agreements between heterogeneous countries in the context of free trade. For this purpose, we develop a simple model of international trade with three countries of unequal market size. Strategic interactions between countries come...

James Dow, Itay Goldstein, and Alexander Guembel

vol. 15, n. 4, 2017, pp. 877–909

We analyze information production incentives for traders in financial markets, when firms condition investment decisions on information revealed through stock prices. We show that traders’ private value of information about a firm’s investment project increases with the ex ante likelihood the...

Jean-François Bonnefon, M. Juanchich, and M. Sirota

C. Cummins, and N. Katsos (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2017

Stefan Ambec

T. Altenburg, and C. Assmann (eds.), UN Environment, chapter 3, 2017