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Christian Gollier, and Dominic Rohner (eds.)
CEPR, June 2023
There is growing awareness worldwide of the existential threat posed by climate change and the need for a green transition. Yet, specific ecological policy proposals are routinely rejected by large segments of the population. As argued in this 21-chapter strong eBook, while this may be partly due...
Ingela Alger, Slimane Dridi, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Michael Wilson
vol. 120, n. 25, June 2023
How did humans evolve from individualistic to collective foraging with sex differences in production and widespread sharing of plant and animal foods? While current evolutionary scenarios focus on meat, cooking, or grandparental subsidies, considerations of the economics of foraging for extracted...
Samuel Snow, and Richard O Prum
June 2023
Models of sexual conflict over mating, including conflict over indirect benefits of mate choice, have generally presumed that female resistance to male coercion must involve direct confrontation, which can lead to sexually antagonistic coevolutionary arms-races. We built a quantitative model...
Zoe Purcell, and Jean-François Bonnefon
vol. 2, n. 6, June 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be harnessed to create sophisticated social and moral scoring systems — enabling people and organizations to form judgements of others at scale. However, it also poses significant ethical challenges and is, subsequently, the subject of wide debate. As these...
Henrik Andersson, and Benjamin Ouvrard
vol. 104, n. 102013, June 2023
Using a discrete choice experiment this study examines whether different types of priming may influence the respondents’ answers when choosing between different policies aimed at reducing the mortality risk due to ambient air pollution. We focus on two types of priming: (i) two versions of an oath...
Emmanuelle Auriol
Olivier Armantier, Jérôme Foncel, and Nicolas Treich
vol. 148, n. 3, June 2023, pp. 201–219
We study insurance and portfolio decisions, two opposite risk retention tradeoffs. Using household level data, we identify the first joint determinants (e.g. subjective expectations, risk attitude) and frictions (e.g. liquidity constraints, financial literacy) in the literature. We also find key...
Sultan Mehmood, Avner Seror, and Daniel L. Chen
vol. 7, June 2023, pp. 874–880
We estimate the impact of the Ramadan fasting ritual on criminal sentencing decisions in Pakistan and India from half a century of daily data. We use random case assignment and exogenous variation in fasting intensity during Ramadan due to the rotating Islamic calendar and the geographical latitude...
Cuong-Viet Nguyen, Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Toan Nguyen
vol. 32, n. 6, June 2023, pp. 1220–1243
We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly among older people and those living in the hot regions in...
Francesco Decarolis, Maris Goldmanis, Antonio Penta, and Ksenia Shakhgildyan
vol. 71, n. 2, June 2023, pp. 570–592
Bid delegation to specialized intermediaries is common in internet ad auctions. When the same intermediary bids for competing advertisers, its incentive to coordinate client bids might alter the functioning of the auctions. This study develops a methodology to detect bid coordination and presents a...
