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Bruno Conte, Lavinia Piemontese, and Augustin Tapsoba

vol. 87, n. 102712, January 2023

This paper investigates the consequences of the 2004 locust plague in Mali. We argue that in agricultural economies with a single harvest per year, this type of shock can affect households through two channels: first, a speculative/anticipatory effect that kicks in during the growing season,...

Gabriel Ulyssea, Matteo Bobba, and Lucie Gadenne

vol. 6, n. 1, January 2023

Most low- and middle-income countries are characterised by a large informal sector, which implies that a substantial fraction of economic activity in these countries is completely unregulated. This has important implications for the behaviour of firms, workers, families, and consumers, with these...

Edmond Seabright, Sarah Alami, Thomas S. Kraft, Helen Davis, Ann E. Caldwell, Paul L. Hooper, Lisa McAllister, Sarah Mulville, Christopher Von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

vol. 378, n. 1868, January 2023

While it is commonly thought that patrilocality is associated with worse outcomes for women and their children due to lower social support, few studies have examined whether the structure of female social networks covaries with post-marital residence. Here, we analyse scan sample data collected...

Thomas S. Kraft, Daniel Cummings, Vivek Venkataraman, Sarah Alami, Bret A. Beheim, Paul L. Hooper, Edmond Seabright, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Karen L. Endicott, Kirk M. Endicott, and Michael Gurven

vol. 378, n. 1868, January 2023

Cooperation in food acquisition is a hallmark of the human species. Given that costs and benefits of cooperation vary among production regimes and work activities, the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture is likely to have reshaped the structure of cooperative subsistence networks....

Aksel Erbahar, and Vincent Rebeyrol

vol. 140, n. 103693, January 2023

This paper shows that manufacturing exporters export goods that they have not produced and thus also act as trade intermediaries. The geographical dimension of the data reveals that almost half of these exports of “sourced” products are purely intermediated: to many destinations, firms export...

Augustin Tapsoba

vol. 160, n. 102975, January 2023

The fear of exposure to conflict events often triggers changes in the behavior of eco-nomic agents even before/without any manifestation of violence in a given area. It gen-erates a treatment status (exposure to the adverse e˙ects of conflict) that goes beyond violence incidence. This paper...

Helmuth Cremer, and Chiara Canta

vol. 75, n. 1, January 2023, pp. 117–141

We study the optimal design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when the utility of informal caregivers is taken into account. Informal care is exchange-based. Children’s cost of providing care is continuously distributed over some interval and is not observable. Parents choose a rule...

Alexandre de Cornière, and Miklos Sarvary

vol. 69, n. 1, January 2023

The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand the impact of third-party content bundling by a social platform that has a monopoly on showing user-generated content...

Christian Gouriéroux, and Joann Jasiak

vol. 232, n. 1, January 2023, pp. 35–51

A major difficulty in the analysis of Covid-19 transmission is that many infected individuals are asymptomatic. For this reason, the total counts of infected individuals and of recovered immunized individuals are unknown, especially during the early phase of the epidemic. In this paper, we consider...

Pascal Bégout

vol. 2, n. 31, 2022, p. 241–252