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Jonathan Stieglitz

vol. 10, n. 45, November 2024

Human foragers avoid noncommunicable diseases that are leading causes of mortality, partly because physically active lifestyles promote healthy aging. High activity levels also promote tissue damage accumulation from wear-and-tear, increase risk of injury and disability which compromise...

Boris Van Leeuwen, and Ingela Alger

vol. 2, n. 4, November 2024

Theory suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run a laboratory experiment on strategic interaction in social dilemmas. We structurally estimate social preferences and Kantian...

Philippe Bontems, Guillaume Cheikbossian, and Houda Hafidi

November 2024

Jérôme Bolte, Cyrille Combettes, and Edouard Pauwels

vol. 49, n. 4, November 2024, pp. 2049–2802

Pascal Bégout, and Jésus Ildefonso Diaz

vol. 1, n. 538, October 2024

Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed

vol. 17, n. 3, October 2024, p. 26

This article examines the relationship between state-provided religious education and support for Islamists. It first provides a historical overview of this debate in the Egyptian context. It then examines a survey of young adults from post-Arab-Spring Egypt, the largest education market in the...

Catherine Cazals, Thierry Magnac, Jonathan Pope, and Soterios Soteri

Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), chapter 15, October 2024, pp. 223–235

This chapter examines and attempts to quantify the impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and Brexit on UK international postal parcel volumes, using an econometric analysis of Royal Mail import parcel traffic data (accounting for almost 70% of Royal Mail total international parcel...

Frédérique Fève, Thierry Magnac, Jonathan Pope, and Soterios Soteri

Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, and Victor Glass (eds.), chapter 8, October 2024, pp. 113–127

This chapter examines and estimates demand price elasticities for Royal Mail postal parcel volumes, using an econometric analysis of data from more than 40,000 Royal Mail customers followed each quarter over 5 years and distinguishing intensive and extensive margin elasticities.

David Martimort, and Wilfried Sand-Zantman

October 2024, pp. 1–18

We analyze the effect of media mergers in a model that stresses, on the one hand, the fact that media are two-sided platforms willing to attract advertisers and viewers and, on the other hand, that strong competitors have emerged to challenge traditional media on both sides. We show that a merger...

Guillaume Carlier, Xavier Dupuis, Jean-Charles Rochet, and John Thanassoulis

vol. 114, October 2024, p. 103025

We provide an algorithm for solving multidimensional screening problems which are intractable analytically. The algorithm is a primal–dual algorithm which alternates between optimizing the primal problem of the surplus extracted by the principal and the dual problem of the optimal assignment to...