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Amanda J. Lea, Angela Garcia, Jesusa Arevalo, Julien F. Ayroles, Kenneth Buetow, Steve W. Cole, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Maguin Gutierrez Cayuba, Heather M. Highland, Paul L. Hooper, Anne Justice, Thomas S. Kraft, Kari E. North, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C. Trumble, and Michael Gurven

vol. 120, n. e2207544120, December 2022

A growing body of work has addressed human adaptations to diverse environments using genomic data, but few studies have connected putatively selected alleles to phenotypes, much less among underrepresented populations such as Amerindians. Studies of natural selection and genotype–phenotype...

Claude Crampes, and Michel Moreaux

n. 177, 2022, pp. 9–27

By increasing the size of production, storage, and transport equipment, firms seek to take advantage of an increase in volume (outputs) proportionally larger than the increase in surface (inputs). But economies of scale are limited by the strength of the materials, the distance to supply and...

Joan Calzada, Ester Manna, and Andrea Mantovani

vol. 31, n. 3, 2022, pp. 609–637

Price parity clauses (PPCs) are widely adopted by online platforms to force client sellers not to lower their prices elsewhere. We investigate under what conditions online travel agencies (OTAs) decide to apply PPCs, and how this affects hotels' listing decisions on OTAs. We find OTAs adopt PPCs...

Frédéric Koessler, Marie Laclau, Jérôme Renault, and Tristan Tomala

vol. 17, n. 2, 2022, p. 883–927

We analyze information design games between two designers with opposite preferences and a single agent. Before the agent makes a decision, designers repeatedly disclose public information about persistent state parameters. Disclosure continues until no designer wishes to reveal further information...

Helmuth Cremer, and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

vol. 84, n. 102642, 2022

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

Margaret Gatz, Wendy Mack, Helena Chui, Meng Law, Giuseppe Barisano, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, and Jonathan Stieglitz

2022

Arnaud Reynaud, and Aymeric Ricome

vol. 53, 2022, pp. 170–186

We identify factors involved in the decision of farmers to use marketing contracts (pool, storage and forward contracts), and we explicitly account for the hedging and price-enhancement components of this decision. Using panel corner solution models (Tobit and double-hurdle) to represent farmers'...

Jay J. Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, Paulo S. Boggio, and Sylvie Borau

vol. 13, n. 517, 2022

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public...

Cécile Aubert, and Huihui Ding

vol. 59, 2022, pp. 207–249

A reelection-seeking politician makes a policy decision that can reveal her private information on whether her political orientation and capabilities will be a good fit to future circumstances. We study how she may choose inappropriate policies to hide her information, even in the absence of...

Florian van Leeuwen, Yoel Inbar, Michael Bang Petersen, Lene Aarøe, and Jane Conway

2022