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Benjamin C. Trumble, Herman Pontzer, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Cummings, Brian Wood, Melissa Emery Thompson, David Raichlen, Bret A. Beheim, Gandhi Yetish, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

vol. 35, n. 11, November 2023

Testosterone plays a role in mediating energetic trade-offs between growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Investments in a high testosterone phenotype trade-off against other functions, particularly survival-enhancing immune function and cellular repair; thus only individuals in good condition can...

Ayden Higgins, and Koen Jochmans

vol. 237, n. 1, 105462, November 2023

This paper provides new identification results for finite mixtures of Markov processes. Our arguments yield identification from knowledge of the cross-sectional distribution of three (or more) effective time-series observations under simple conditions. We explain how our approach and results are...

George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard, and Harris Dellas

vol. 131, n. 11, November 2023, p. 3233–3264

We study optimal policy in an economy where interest rates are low because public debt serves as collateral or buffer stock. Issuing more public debt raises welfare by easing the underlying friction but also reduces the private valuation of this service, raising interest rates. This trade-off...

Le Thanh Ha, Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Chon Van Le

vol. 55, November 2023, pp. 117061–117081

In this study, we use a time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) in conjunction with the extended joint connectedness approach to examine the influences of the economic globalization measured by foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as trade openness (TO), on renewable and non-...

Christian Gollier, Frederick van der Ploeg, and Jiakun Zheng

vol. 122, October 2023

We survey the attitude towards the risk-adjustment of efficient discount rates among the economics profession. Three-fourth of our respondents recommend adjusting discount rates to the risk profile of the project under scrutiny, in clear opposition to the standard practice of using a single...

Fotini Christia, Horacio Larreguy, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, and Manuel Quintero

vol. 7, October 2023, p. 1740–1752

COVID-19 heightened women’s exposure to gender-based and intimate partner violence, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. We tested whether edutainment interventions shown to successfully combat gender-based and intimate partner violence when delivered in person can be effectively...

Daniel L. Chen, and Martin Schonger

October 2023

This article highlights a potential and significant economic–theoretical bias in the widely used strategy method (SM) technique. Although SM is commonly employed to analyze numerous observations per subject regarding rare or off-equilibrium behaviors unattainable through direct elicitation (DE),...

Ilaria Pretelli, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Bakar Makame Khamis, and Richard McElreath

vol. 290, n. 2011, October 2023

Childhood is a period of life unique to humans. Childhood may have evolved through the need to acquire knowledge and subsistence skills. In an effort to understand the functional significance of childhood, previous research examined increases with age in returns to foraging across food resources....

Hervé Guyomard, Louis-Georges Soler, Cécile Détang-Dessendre, and Vincent Réquillart

vol. 4, n. 358, October 2023

The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing...

Jacques Crémer, Dirk Bergemann, David Dinielli, Carl-Christian Groh, Paul Heidhues, Maximilian Schäfer, Fiona Scott Morton, Katja Seim, and Michael Sullivan

vol. 40, n. 3, October 2023, pp. 1056–1120