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Courtney Hilton, Cody Moser, Mila Bertolo, Harry Lee-Rubin, Dorsa Amir, Constance Brainbridge, Jan Simson, Dean Knox, Luke Glowacki, Elias Alemu, Andrzej Galbarczyk, Grazyna Jasienska, Cody Ross, Mary Beth Neff, Alia Martin, Laura Cirelli, Sandra Trehub, Jinqi Song, Minju Kim, Adena Schachner, Tom Vardy, Quentin Atkinson, Amanda Salenius, Jannik Andelin, Jan Antfolk, Purnima Madhivanan, Anand Siddaiah, Caitlyn Placek, Gul Deniz Salali, Sarai Keestra, Manvir Singh, Scott Collins, John Patton, Camila Scaff, Jonathan Stieglitz, Silvia Ccari Cutipa, Cristina Moya, Rohan Sagar, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Mabulla, Brian Wood, Max Krasnow, and Samuel Mehr

July 2022

When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal signalling across species, predict that such alterations should appear globally. Here, we show acoustic differences between...

Fabien Gensbittel, Marcin Peski, and Jérôme Renault

vol. 17, n. 3, July 2022, pp. 1225–1267

We define the distance between two information structures as the largest possible difference in value across all zero-sum games. We provide a tractable characterization of distance and use it to discuss the relation between the value of information in games versus single-agent problems, the value...

Thanh-Viet Nguyen, Michel Simioni, and Hung Trung Vo

vol. 37, n. 3, July 2022

The study aims at valuing mangrove ecosystem services in Xuan Thuy National Park, Red River Delta, Vietnam. A discrete choice experiment was employed to elicit household willingness to pay (WTP) for a community project to protect mangroves against climate change. A conditional logit model and a...

Céline Bonnet, Cécile Détang-Dessendre, Valérie Orozco, and Elodie Rouvière

vol. 305, n. 114999, July 2022

In 2019, obesity affected 17% of French adults. In this article, we use a unique data set that combines individual-level health and consumption data with living environment data (food, sports and health amenities). We develop a spatial econometric framework to address French health disparities in...

Sébastien Gadat, Lola Corre, Antoine Doury, Aurélien Ribes, and Samuel Somot

July 2022

Providing reliable information on climate change at local scale remains a challenge of first importance for impact studies and policymakers. Here, we propose a novel hybrid downscaling method combining the strengths of both empirical statistical downscaling methods and Regional Climate Models (RCMs...

Koen Jochmans

vol. 117, n. 538, July 2022, pp. 887–896

We consider inference in linear regression models that is robust to heteroskedasticity and the presence of many control variables. When the number of control variables increases at the same rate as the sample size the usual heteroskedasticity-robust estimators of the covariance matrix are...

Jeffrey A. Friedman

vol. 98, n. 4, July 5, 2022, pp. 1289–1305

International Relations scholars frequently warn that the American political system has become too fractured to sustain a coherent grand strategy. This perception generally rests on two premises: that President Donald Trump led an unprecedented assault on established principles of US foreign policy...

Thibault Laurent, Paula Margaretic, and Christine Thomas-Agnan

vol. 17, n. 4, June 2022, pp. 557–584

We measure to what extent neighbouring countries affect the amount of remittances between a source and a recipient country, controlling for the commonly used macro determinants of remittances. We provide novel evidence on the importance of neighbouring countries, with the parameter estimates...

Christian Gollier, and Sébastien Pouget

vol. 89, June 2022, pp. 997–1023

Socially responsible investors constitute an important force in today’s global financial markets. This paper examines conditions under which socially responsible investors induce companies to behave responsibly. We develop an asset pricing model in which some shareholders are active owners, that is...

Lisa A. Robinson, Michael Eber, and James K. Hammitt

vol. 13, n. 2, June 2022, pp. 247–268

Many economic analyses, including those that address the COVID-19 pandemic, focus on the value of averting deaths and do not include the value of averting nonfatal illnesses. Yet incorporating the value of averting nonfatal cases may change conclusions about the desirability of the policy. While...