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Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Grégory Fiorio, and Ruth Mace

vol. 45, n. 6(106636), November 2024

Honour cultures, characterized by violent responses to perceived threats to personal or family honour, are widespread. Honour killings, one of the manifestations of honour cultures, claims the lives of thousands of women each year, often at the hands of close relatives, representing not only a...

Malin Arve, and David Martimort

n. rdae106, November 2024

We consider a procurement auction for the provision of a basic service to which an add-on must later be appended. Potential providers are symmetric, have private information on their cost for the basic service and the winning firm must also implement the add-on. To finance value-enhancing...

Christian Gollier

vol. 128, n. 103062, November 2024

Any global temperature target must be translated into an intertemporal carbon budget and its associated cost-efficient carbon price schedule. Under the Hotelling’s rule without uncertainty, the growth rate of this price should be equal to the interest rate. It is therefore a puzzle that many cost-...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Camille Landais, and Nina Roussille

n. 83, November 2024

Julien Lie-Panis, Léo Fitouchi, Nicolas Baumard, and Jean-Baptiste André

vol. 121(51), n. e2408802121, November 2024

Institutions allow cooperation to persist when reciprocity and reputation provide insufficient incentives. Yet how they do so remains unclear, especially given that institutions are themselves a form of cooperation. To solve this puzzle, we develop a mathematical model of reputation-based...

Daniel L. Chen

vol. 77, n. 4, November 2024, pp. 1004–1025

Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer, and Daniel L. Chen

vol. 121, n. e2406034121, November 2024

We provide experimental evidence that role models can galvanize prosocial actions amid global crises, exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a randomized control trial comparing role models, cash incentives, and celebrity endorsements, only role models successfully mitigated vaccine reluctance...

Maxime Derex, Pierce Edmiston, Gary Lupyan, and Alex Mesoudi

vol. 48, n. e2322886121, November 2024

Although the theoretical foundations of the modern field of cultural evolution have been in place for over 50 y, laboratory experiments specifically designed to test cultural evolutionary theory have only existed for the last two decades. Here, we review the main experimental designs used in the...

Marc Ivaldi, and Connie Lee

Randolph Tritell, Daniel Crane, and Damien Gerard (eds.), chapter 5, November 2024, pp. 567–570

Randolph Tritell, Daniel Crane, and Damien Gerard (eds.)

November 2024, 870 pages