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Alexis Chaine, Jean Clobert, Michele Huet, Staffan Jacob, Delphine Legrand, Nicolas Schtickzelle, and Priscilla Wehi
vol. 70, n. 10, October 2016, pp. 2336–2345
Kin selection theory predicts that costly cooperative behaviors evolve most readily when directed toward kin. Dispersal plays a controversial role in the evolution of cooperation: dispersal decreases local population relatedness and thus opposes the evolution of cooperation, but limited dispersal...
Christian Gollier
vol. 142, October 2016, pp. 83–90
Weitzman (1998, 2001) proposed a simple “gamma discounting” method to characterize the term structure of discount rates today from the sole distribution of future spot interest rates. This rule which justifies using a smaller discount rate for longer maturities is now used for long-term policy...
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Dario Maldonado, and Kerstin Roeder
vol. 89, October 2016, pp. 454–470
This paper studies the design of couples’ income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses’ utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. Information structure and labor supply decisions follow...
Martial Dupaigne, and Patrick Fève
vol. 89, October 2016, pp. 425–453
This paper inspects the mechanism shaping government spending multipliers in various smallscale DSGE setups with endogenous labor supply and capital accumulation. We analytically characterize the short-run investment multiplier, which in equilibrium can be either positive or negative. The...
Marion Robert, Jérôme Dury, Alban Thomas, Olivier Therond, Muddu Sekhar, Shrinivas Badiger, Laurent Ruiz, and Jacques Eric Bergez
vol. 148, October 2016, pp. 86–94
The agricultural research community offers languages and approaches to model farmers' decision-making processes but does not often clearly detail the steps necessary to build an agent model underlying farmers' decision-making processes. We propose an original and readily applicable methodology for...
Xavier Irz, Pascal Leroy, Vincent Réquillart, and Louis-Georges Soler
vol. 130, October 2016, pp. 139–155
The paper develops a framework combining a model of rational behaviour under dietary constraints, an epidemiological model of diet-related mortality, and a life-cycle-analysis model of environmental impact, which permits the ex-ante assessment of dietary recommendations in multiple sustainability...
Jean-François Laslier, and Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 47, n. 3, October 2016, pp. 559–587
We propose a theory of strategic voting in multi-winner elections with approval balloting. With a tiny probability that any vote might be misrecorded, best responses involve voting by pairwise comparisons. Two candidates play a critical role: the weakest expected winner and the strongest expected...
Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Arnaud Reynaud
vol. 21, n. 5, October 2016, pp. 603–617
A choice experiment is used to estimate how Vietnamese households value a flood risk reduction. The empirical analysis is conducted on a sample of households located in the Nghe An Province, one of the provinces which is the most affected by floods in Vietnam. The results reveal that there is a...
G. Dhaene, and Koen Jochmans
vol. 32, October 2016, pp. 1178–1215
James K. Hammitt, Lisa A. Robinson, and Richard Zeckhauser
vol. 10, n. 2, September 2016, pp. 308–328
Before promulgating a major environmental, health, or safety regulation, U.S. government agencies are generally expected to analyze the distribution of its impacts as well as its total costs and benefits. We review several regulatory analyses to determine whether this expectation is being met. We...
