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Brenda L. Volling, Wonjung Oh, Richard Gonzalez, Lauren Bader, Lin Tan, and Lauren Rosenberg

vol. 35, n. 3, August 2023, pp. 1404 –1420

Changes in children’s attachment security to mother and father were examined for 230 firstborn children (M = 31.17 months), their mothers and fathers participating in a longitudinal investigation starting in the last trimester of the mothers’ pregnancy and 1, 4, 8, and 12 months after the birth of...

Lan Anh Nguyen, Manh-Hung Nguyen, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Arnaud Reynaud, Michel Simioni, and Clevo Wilson

August 2023

Literature shows that tourists can make significant financial contributions towards efforts of erosion prevention, but very few studies are done in the context of developing countries, especially to protect World Heritage sites. This paper provides the first estimates of willingness to pay (WTP)...

Benjamin C. Trumble, Mia Charifson, Thomas S. Kraft, Angela Garcia, Daniel Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Amanda J. Lea, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Stephanie Koebele, Kenneth Buetow, Bret A. Beheim, Riana Minocher, Maguin Gutierrez Cayuba, Gregory Thomas, Margaret Gatz, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb Finch, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

vol. 9, n. 32, August 2023

In many populations, the apolipoprotein-ε4 (APOE-ε4) allele increases the risk for several chronic diseases of aging, including dementia and cardiovascular disease; despite these harmful effects at later ages, the APOE-ε4 allele remains prevalent. We assess the impact of APOE-ε4 on fertility and...

Thomas S. Kraft, Edmond Seabright, Sarah Alami, Samuel M. Jenness, Paul L. Hooper, Bret A. Beheim, Helen Davis, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Maguin Gutierrez Cayuba, Emily Miner, Xavier de Lamballerie, Lucia Inchauste, Stéphane Priet, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

vol. 21, n. 8, August 2023

The severity of infectious disease outbreaks is governed by patterns of human contact, which vary by geography, social organization, mobility, access to technology and health- care, economic development, and culture. Whereas globalized societies and urban centers exhibit characteristics that can...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, and Tina Søreide

vol. 56, August 2023, p. 225–287

By combining approaches from the economic theory of crime and of industrial organization, this paper analyzes optimal enforcement for three different forms of corporate misconduct that harm competition. The analysis shows why corporate crime is more harmful in large markets, why governments have a...

Romain Espinosa, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 85, August 2023, pp. 673–706

Estimating the demand for greener products may be challenging when these products are not yet on the market. We design an experiment to elicit the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a novel product in a non-hypothetical way, despite the fact that the product is not marketed and thus cannot be delivered...

Victor Gay

vol. 133, n. 654, August 2023, p. 2303–2333

Demographic shocks tied to World War I’s high death toll induced many women to enter the labour force in the immediate postwar period. I document a positive impact of these newly employed women on the labour force participation of subsequent generations of women until today. I also find that the...

Koen Jochmans

vol. 235, n. 2, August 2023, pp. 1203–1214

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of the self-selection of peers in the linear-in-means model. We do not require to specify a model for how the selection of peers comes about. Rather, we exploit two restrictions that are inherent in many such specifications to construct conditional...

Doh-Shin Jeon, and Jay Pil Choi

vol. 54, n. 2, August 2023, pp. 240–267

We investigate how platform market power affects platforms' design choices in ad-funded two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider design choices affecting both sides in opposite ways and...

Michele Bisceglia, Jorge Padilla, Salvatore Piccolo, and Pekka Saaskilahti

vol. 90, n. 102771, July 2023

We describe the healthcare industry as a mixed oligopoly, where a public and two private providers compete, and examine the effects of a merger between the two private healthcare providers on prices, quality, and welfare. When the price and (eventually) quality of the public provider are regulated...