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Thomas Ragel, and Bruno Ziliotto

April 2025, revised June 10, 2026

Gabriel Ulyssea, Matteo Bobba, Lucie Gadenne, and Mariaflavia Harari

vol. 6, n. 2, April 2025

Most low- and middle-income countries are characterised by a large informal sector, which implies that a substantial fraction of economic activity and livelihoods in these countries goes on completely unregulated. This has important implications for the behaviour of firms, workers, families, and...

Philippe De Donder, David Bardey, and Vera Zaporozhets

vol. 4, n. 26, April 2025, revised June 10, 2026

We review the medico-economic literature assessing the economic value of diagnostic and prognostic tests, with a focus on innovative and, more specifically, companion tests. Our analysis begins with a summary of systematic reviews that provide a descriptive synthesis of existing findings rather...

Philippe De Donder, Humberto Llavador, Stefan Penczynski, John E. Roemer, and Roberto Vélez

April 2025

The vaccination game exhibits positive externalities. The standard game-theoretic approach assumes that parents make decisions according to the Nash protocol, which is ndividualistic and non-cooperative. However, in more solidaristic societies, parents may behave cooperatively, optimizing according...

Giacomo Lemoli

vol. 58, n. 5, April 2025, p. 890–923

This paper studies the relationship between ethnic media, which produce content in a minority language, and the success of ethnic parties. I argue that, by embedding cultural traits in entertainment products, media outlets can shape the salience of group identity, which helps parties’ mobilization...

Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani, and Shiva Shekhar

vol. 71, n. 4, April 2025, pp. 3340–3356

We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogeneous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...

George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew

vol. 73, n. 3, April 2025

We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...

Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen, and Karine Van Der Straeten

vol. 13, n. 2, April 2025, revised June 10, 2026, pp. 337–353

Rey Dang, L'hocine Houanti, Michel Simioni, and Jean-Michel Sahut

vol. 347, April 2025, p. 333–365

Due to a contrasting empirical literature, we revisit the influence of board gender diversity (BGD) on corporate social performance (CSP) by carefully considering the thorny issue of endogeneity, which plagues this matter. Building on stakeholder theory (Freeman, Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic...

Olivier De Groote

vol. 43, n. 2, April 2025

I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex ante evaluation of a policy that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically...