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Etienne Danchin, Guillaume Isabel, and Sabine Noebel
May 2024
Does culture exist in insects? The answer is probably yes. No insect studies document patterns of behavioural variation among wild populations (i.e. traditions), but some lab studies offer major insight on the mechanisms that can potentially generate traditions. Hence studies on insect culture...
Tuba Tuncel
n. rdae060, May 2024
After a drug obtains marketing authorization, the usage depends on the regulation of off-label prescriptions for unapproved indications. We investigate the impact of off-label prescription regulation on physicians’ behavior, patients’ health, treatment costs, and pharmaceutical firms’ pricing with...
Stefan Ambec, Federico Esposito, and Antonia Pacelli
vol. 125, n. 102973, May 2024
In a trade model with endogenous emissions abatement, we investigate the impact of three policy instruments aimed at mitigating carbon leakage: free emission allowances, a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and a CBAM with export rebates. We show that providing free allowances does not...
Charles Mullon, Jorge Peña, and Laurent Lehmann
vol. 20, n. 5, May 2024
Many social interactions happen indirectly via modifications of the environment, e.g. through the secretion of functional compounds or the depletion of renewable resources. Here, we derive the selection gradient on a quantitative trait affecting dynamical environmental variables that feed back on...
Erik Gustafsson, Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa, and Emily Burdett
vol. 47, n. e100, May 2024
We argue that the phases identified in the novelty-seeking model can be clarified by considering an updated version of the optimal-level of arousal model, which incorporates the "arousal" and "mood changing" potentials of stimuli and contexts. Such a model provides valuable insights into what...
Paul Seabright
Princeton University Press, May 2024, 504 pages
Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their...
Céline Bonnet, and Marine Coinon
vol. 143, n. 105017, May 2024
Global meat consumption has risen steadily in recent decades, with heterogeneous growth rates across regions. While meat plays a critical role in providing essential nutrients for human health, excessive consumption of meat, particularly red and processed meat, has also been associated with a...
Olivier Faugeras, and Gilles Pages
vol. 116, May 2024, pp. 134–147
Marc Arnaudon, Koléhè Coulibaly-Pasquier, and Laurent Miclo
vol. 30, n. 2, May 2024, pp. 1007–1028
This paper proves that the separation convergence toward the uniform distribution abruptly occurs at times around ln(n)∕n for the (time-accelerated by 2) Brownian motion on the sphere with a high dimension n. The arguments are based on a new and elementary perturbative approach for estimating...
Abdelaati Daouia, Simone A. Padoan, and Gilles Stupfler
vol. 30, n. 2, May 2024, pp. 1287–1312
This paper investigates pooling strategies for tail index and extreme quantile estimation from heavy-tailed data. To fully exploit the information contained in several samples, we present general weighted pooled Hill estimators of the tail index and weighted pooled Weissman estimators of extreme...
