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Claude Crampes, and Thomas-Olivier Léautier
May 5, 2015
Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemaï, Astrid Hopfensitz, Manfred Milinski, and Paul Seabright
April 2015
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari, and Norbert Ladoux
vol. 15, n. 2, April 2015, pp. 475–501
This paper examines if an energy price shock should be compensated by a reduction in energy taxes to mitigate its impact on consumer prices. Such an adjustment is often debated and advocated for redistributive reasons. Our investigation is based on a model that characterizes second-best optimal...
Bret A. Beheim, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Felicia C. Madimenos, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Benjamin C. Trumble
vol. 156, n. 4, April 2015, pp. 637–648
Evolutionary theories of aging posit that greater reproductive effort causes somatic decline given a fundamental trade-off between investing energy in reproduction and repair. Few studies in high fertility human populations support this hypothesis, and problems of phenotypic correlation can obscure...
Guido Friebel, Jibirila Leinyuy, and Paul Seabright
vol. 68, April 2015, pp. 124–135
We show that in family or household firms, credit constraints can make business investment a direct competitor to educational investment. We test this theory on data collected in Cameroon. Households that are not restricted by credit constraints invest more in education when demand for the product...
Jean-François Bonnefon, Wim De Neys, and Astrid Hopfensitz
vol. 47, April 2015, pp. 17–22
People can (to some extent) detect trustworthiness from the facial features of social partners, and populations which underperform at this task are at a greater risk of abuse. Here we focus on situations in which adolescents make a decision whether to trust an unknown adult. Adolescents aged 13-18...
Jean Tirole
April 30, 2015
Bruno Biais
Frédéric Cherbonnier, and Emmanuel Thibault
April 23, 2015
April 16, 2015
