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Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Tommaso Cesari, Roberto Colomboni, Federico Fusco, and Stefano Leonardi

vol. 49, n. 1, February 2024

Mai Hassan, Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell

vol. 118, n. 4, January 2024, pp. 1913–1930

Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians’ incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts. We jointly consider the relative...

Haneul Jang, Cody Ross, Adam H. Boyette, Karline R.L. Janmaat, Vidrige H. Kandza, and Daniel Redhead

vol. 10, n. 2, January 2024

In hunter-gatherer societies, women’s subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning and children’s social learning but are understudied relative to men’s activities. To understand the structure of women’s foraging networks, we present 230 days of focal-follow data in a BaYaka community....

Marijn Keijzer, Michael Mas, and Andreas Flache

vol. 27, n. 1, January 2024, 28 pages

We formally introduce and empirically test alternative micro-foundations of social influence in the context of communication on social media. To this end, we first propose a general theoretical framework allowing us to represent by different combinations of model parameters of influence-response...

Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Stefan Lamp, and Tsvetan Tsvetanov

vol. 43, n. 5, January 2024, pp. 1132 – 1148

Intensive marketing campaigns can be used to increase awareness, consideration, purchase, and word of mouth (WOM) of prosocial products. With expanded interest and belief in how social norms and spillovers might be leveraged to combat climate change, it is critical to understand how campaigns...

Rafael Berriel, Eugenia Gonzalez-Aguado, Patrick Kehoe, and Elena Pastorino

vol. 141, January 2024, pp. 157–177

When is a fiscal union appropriate for a monetary union? In a monetary union without fiscal externalities, when local fiscal authorities have an informational advantage over a central fiscal authority in terms of their knowledge of countries’ preferences for government spending, a decentralized...

Carlos Navarrete, Mariana Macedo, Rachael Colley, Jingling Zhang, Nicole Ferrada, Maria Eduarda Mello, Rodrigo Lira, Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Umberto Grandi, Jérôme Lang, and César Hidalgo

vol. 8, n. 1, January 2024, pp. 137–148

Digital technologies can augment civic participation by facilitating the expression of detailed political preferences. Yet, digital participation efforts often rely on methods optimized for elections involving a few candidates. Here we present data collected in an online experiment where...

Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan, and Azim Shariff

vol. 75, January 2024, pp. 653–675

Moral psychology was shaped around three categories of agents and patients: humans, other animals, and supernatural beings. Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has introduced a fourth category for our moral psychology to deal with: intelligent machines. Machines can perform as moral agents,...

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer, and Firouz Gahvari

vol. 126, n. 1, January 2024, pp. 98–126

We study optimal income taxation in a two-group framework where the private cost of misreporting income is positively correlated with productivity. We show that, if high-wage types always reveal their income truthfully, letting low-wage types cheat would lead to Pareto-superior outcomes regardless...

Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, and Arianna Ornaghi

vol. 16, n. 1, January 2024, pp. 314–350

Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and...