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Victor Gay

vol. 2, 2023

In this article, I perform a verification and a reproduction of the main results in Fernández and Fogli(2009), which estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of secondgeneration immigrant women to the United States in 1970. While I am able to verify Fernández...

Milo Bianchi, Matthieu Bouvard, Renato Gomes, Andrew Rhodes, and Vatsala Shreeti

vol. 65, n. 101068, December 2023

We connect various streams of academic literature to analyze how alternative competition and regulatory policies may affect the development of digital financial services, and particularly of mobile payments. Our main objective is to highlight the extent to which existing models, often coming from...

Henrik Paul Lopuhaä, Valérie Gares, and Anne Ruiz-Gazen

vol. 51, n. 6, December 2023, pp. 2415–2439

We provide a unified approach to S-estimation in balanced linear models with structured covariance matrices. Of main interest are S-estimators for linear mixed effects models, but our approach also includes S-estimators in several other standard multivariate models, such as multiple regression,...

Jingling Zhang, Jane Conway, and César Hidalgo

“Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications”, 2023

People are known to judge artificial intelligence using a utilitarian moral philosophy and humans using a moral philosophy emphasizing perceived intentions. But why do people judge humans and machines differently? Psychology suggests that people may have different mind perception models for humans...

Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, and César Hidalgo

vol. 58, n. 9, 2023, pp. 1659–1673

Did migrants make Paris a mecca for the arts and Vienna a beacon of classical music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors? We use data on more than 22,000 historical individuals born between the years 1000 and 2000 to estimate the contribution of famous immigrants, emigrants and...

Maria Kleshnina

vol. 13, December 2023, p. 1035–1048

Maria Kleshnina, Sabrina Streipert, Joel Brown, and Katerina Stankova

vol. 13, December 2023, pp. 1130–1155

Nature exhibits rapid evolution in response to human activities. When using natural resources for their own profit, humans should account for such responses. Stackelberg evolutionary games (SEG) offer a method for modeling interactions between a rational leader (humans) and evolutionary followers (...

Sébastien Lecocq, Valérie Orozco, Christine Boizot-Szantai, Céline Bonnet, and Fabrice Etilé

vol. 541, 2023, pp. 17–32

Public health authorities advocate the introduction of alcohol pricing policies in the form of tax reform and/or a minimum unit price based on the pure alcohol content of products. We use Kantar WorldPanel household purchase data to describe the distortions in the current tax system, favouring wine...

José De Sousa, Amélie Guillin, Julie Lochard, and Arthur Silve

vol. 216, December 2023, pp. 332–353

Industries with more complex input-output relationships are comparatively larger in U.S. states with higher levels of trust. This specialization pattern is not driven by differences in the states' and industries' other observable characteristics. Given the importance of complexity in economic...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard, and Tiffanie Perrault

n. 216, December 2023, pp. 62–101

We model consumer choices for recreational cannabis in a risky environment and its supply under prohibition and legalization. While legalization reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis consumption. This trade-off can be overcome by combining legalization with sanctions...