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Xiao Xu, Nikhil Chaudhari, Phoebe E. Imms, Nahian Chowdhury, Fangyun C. Liu, Jorge A. Solis Galvan, Bavrina Bigjahan, Grant Schleifer, Maria Ashna, Blake Hannagan, Giuseppe Barisano, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, Edmond Seabright, Randall C. Thompson, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb Finch, Linda Sutherland, Helena Chui, Margaret Gatz, Wendy Mack, Hillard Kaplan, and Andrei Irimia

March 2026

Thi-Huong Trinh, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Michel Simioni

March 2026

In econometrics, the impact of climate change on agricultural yield has often been modeled using linear functional regression, where crop yield, a scalar response, is regressed on the temperature distribution over a given time period, treated as an ordinary functional parameter, along with other...

Philippe Bontems, Marie-Françoise Calmette, and David Martimort

vol. 45, n. 100447, March 2026

Motivated by the forthcoming terminations of most highways concessions in France, we propose a versatile model of dynamic regulation and contract renewals that describes a long-term relationship between the public authority and an incumbent operator with private information about its costs that may...

Marijn Keijzer, Lukas Erhard, Zarine Kharazian, and Manika Lamba

February 2026

The impact of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has been subject to much debate. Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that algorithmic recommendations may lure the platform’s users into informational ‘rabbit holes’ where they are exposed to biased content and misinformation. However...

Marijn Keijzer, Jan Lorenz, and Michał Bojanowski

Springer Cham, February 2026

The emergence of Computational Social Science (CSS) marks a transformative shift in the study of social phenomena, triggered by advancements in computational technology and large-scale collection of (digital) behavioral trace data. CSS promises to provide an accurate and deep understanding of...

Marijn Keijzer, Jan Lorenz, and Michał Bojanowski

Springer Cham, February 2026

This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization through the lens of Computational Social...

Carl T. Bergstrom, and Kevin Gross

vol. 24, n. 2 (e3003650), February 2026

Scholarly journals rely on peer review to identify the science most worthy of publication. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even threatening the long-term viability of peer review as an institution. What can or...

Sandra Brée, Victor Gay, Marion Leturcq, Yoann Doignon, and Baptiste Coumon

vol. 16, February 2026, pp. 3–28, 26 pages

Alexander Hijzen, Mateo Montenegro, and Ana Sofia Pessoa

vol. 98, n. 102826, February 2026

This paper provides an assessment of the 2019 minimum-wage hike in Spain, which increased the minimum wage by 22 % and directly concerned 7 % of dependent employees. We make use of two complementary approaches, one that follows incumbent workers over time and hence does not take account of any...

Daniel Kim, and Sébastien Pouget

vol. 97, n. 102932, February 2026

We empirically study whether carbon emissions affect firms’ cost of capital raised on conventional bond markets. We find that firms with higher carbon emissions face higher spreads in the secondary market but not in the primary market. We show that this gap is related to uncertainty about climate...