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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...

Jérôme Bolte, Laurent Miclo, and Stéphane Villeneuve

vol. 205, May 2024, p. 661–701

Using jointly geometric and stochastic reformulations of nonconvex problems and exploiting a Monge-Kantorovich gradient system formulation with vanishing forces, we formally extend the simulated annealing method to a wide class of global optimization methods. Due to an inbuilt combination of a...

Volker Nocke, and Patrick Rey

vol. 132, n. 5, May 2024, pp. 1684–1739

We develop a model of within-firm sequential, directed search and study a firm’s ability and incentive to steer consumers. We find that the firm often benefits from adopting a noisy positioning strategy, which limits the information available to consumers. This induces consumers to keep searching...

Xiaofan Liang, César Hidalgo, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Siqi Zheng, and Jianghao Wang

vol. 109, n. 102092, April 2024

Urban outputs, from economy to innovation, are known to grow as a power of a city's population. But, since large cities tend to be central in transportation and communication networks, the effects attributed to city size may be confounded with those of intercity connectivity. Here, we map intercity...

Horacio Larreguy, and Shelley X. Liu

vol. 12, n. 2, April 2024, pp. 354 – 371

We argue that education's effect on political participation in developing democracies depends on the strength of democratic institutions. Education increases awareness of, and interest in, politics, which help citizens to prevent democratic erosion through increased political participation. We...

Maud Mouginot, Michael Wilson, N. Desai, and Martin Surbeck

vol. 34, n. 8, April 2024, pp. 1780–1785

Researchers investigating the evolution of human aggression look to our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), as valuable sources of comparative data.1,2 Males in the two species exhibit contrasting patterns: male chimpanzees sexually coerce females3,4,...