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Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stéphane Bonhomme, and Jack Light

vol. 240, n. 2, March 2024

In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. We build on the nonlinear quantile framework introduced in Arellano et al. (2017). Our focus is on the estimation of...

Marc Arnaudon, Laurent Miclo, and Koléhè Coulibaly-Pasquier

vol. 11, February 2024, pp. 473–522

Lucie Bottega, Dorothée Brécard, and Philippe Delacote

vol. 235, n. 111513, February 2024

When information provided by ecolabels is inaccurate and consumers have ambiguous beliefs about the quality of green products, firms can use their advertising strategy in two ways: by informing consumers of the true quality of green goods in order to increase their belief accuracy, or by...

Stefan Ambec, and Yuting Yang

vol. 76, n. 101422, February 2024

Trade reduces the effectiveness of climate policies such as carbon pricing when domestic products are replaced by more carbon-intensive imports. We investigate the impact of unilateral carbon pricing on electricity generation in a country open to trade through interconnection lines. We characterize...

Abigail Page, Erik Ringen, Jeremy Koster, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Karen Kramer, Mary K. Shenk, Jonathan Stieglitz, Kathrine Starkweather, John P. Ziker, Adam H. Boyette, Heidi Colleran, Cristina Moya, Juan Du, Siobhan Mattison, Russell Greaves, Chun-Yi Sum, Ruizhe Liu, Sheina Lew-Levy, Sean Prall, Mary C. Towner, Tami Blumenfield, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Daniel Major-Smith, Mark Dyble, Gul Deniz Salali, Nikhil Chaudhary, Inez E. Derkx, Cody Ross, Brooke Scelza, Michael Gurven, Bruce P. Winterhalder, Carmen Cortez, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Ryan Schacht, Shane Macfarlan, Donna Leonetti, Eric French, Nurul Alam, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Hillard Kaplan, Paul L. Hooper, Rebecca Sear, and Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila

vol. 121, n. 9, February 2024

While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence is lacking. We tested whether subsistence activities—incorporating market integration—are associated with fertility in 10,...

Jorge Peña, Aviad Heifetz, and Georg Nöldeke

vol. 154, February 2024, pp. 10–23

Cooperation usually becomes harder to sustain as groups become larger because incentives to shirk increase with the number of potential contributors to collective action. But is this always the case? Here we study a binary-action cooperative dilemma where a public good is provided as long as not...

Valentin Hubner, Manuel Staab, Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Maria Kleshnina

vol. 121, n. (10) e2315558121, February 2024

Direct reciprocity is a powerful mechanism for cooperation in social dilemmas. The very logic of reciprocity, however, seems to require that individuals are symmetric, and that everyone has the same means to influence each others’ payoffs. Yet in many applications, individuals are asymmetric....

Catarina Goulão, Juan Antonio Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, and Dan-Olof Rooth

vol. 218, February 2024, pp. 132–145

Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in the hiring process. However, whether overweight job...

Romain Espinosa, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 216, n. 108025, February 2024

We study a simple model of consumption of animals in which consumers exhibit altruism towards animals. Consumers can choose both the quantity and the quality of animal lives. This model gives rise to a public good problem: at the market equilibrium, quality is too low, and quantity is too high when...

Alexandre de Cornière, and Greg Taylor

vol. 16, n. 1, February 2024, pp. 293–328

We study the profitability of bundling by an upstream firm that licenses technologies to downstream competitors, and that faces competition for one of its technologies. In an otherwise standard “Chicago-style” model, the existence of downstream competition can make inefficient bundling profitable....