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Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani, and Shiva Shekhar

vol. 71, n. 4, April 2025, pp. 3340–3356

We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogeneous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...

George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew

vol. 73, n. 3, April 2025

We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority to understand how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in their daily work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: a standard game, a game with a threshold...

Olivier De Groote

vol. 43, n. 2, April 2025

I investigate high school tracking policies using a dynamic discrete choice model of study programs and unobserved effort. I estimate the model using data from Flanders (Belgium) and perform an ex ante evaluation of a policy that encourages underperforming students to switch to less academically...

Wei Lu, and Daniel L. Chen

vol. 20(3), n. e0318790., March 2025

This study explores politically motivated reasoning among U.S. Circuit Court judges over the past 120 years, examining their writing style and use of previous case citations in judicial opinions. Employing natural language processing and supervised machine learn- ing, we scrutinize how judges’...

Pascal Bégout, and Jésus Ildefonso Diaz

vol. 472, February 2025

Claude Crampes, and Antonio Estache

February 2025, pp. 1–26

The paper makes the case for a systematic ex-ante assessment of the distributional impact of efficiency enhancing innovations regulatory sandboxes are expected to test. It shows how their prior formal modeling can inform on the possible need to control in the sandbox design for otherwise...

Marine Spiteri, Lola Pedrini, Agathe Thierry, Valérie Orozco, Olivier de Mouzon, and Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache

vol. 58, n. 111222, February 2025

Measuring the consumption of processed foods made from a common raw agricultural ingredient requires to make quantities comparable, by converting them in raw product equivalent. This conversion also allows to compute total quantities. In the case of legumes, the challenge is to take into account a...

Emmanuelle Auriol, and Anaïs Dahmani-Scuitti

vol. 172, n. 104930, February 2025

In a model featuring two regions—one affluent and the other impoverished—the allocation of public spending is examined under an initially centralized and autocratic political process. In a stable autocracy, the decision to implement decentralization reforms hinges on a tradeoff: while...

Manuel Ramos-Maqueda, and Daniel L. Chen

vol. 186, n. 106834, February 2025

This article explores the transformative potential of data science in enhancing justice systems globally. Leveraging the increasing availability of judicial data and the advancements of the digital revolution, this paper demonstrates how policymakers can significantly improve access, efficiency,...

Felipe Gonzalez, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem, and Stéphane Straub

vol. 135, n. 666, February 2025, p. 653–669

Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and to benefit the governing elite. We explore the connection between the construction of road networks, state-led repression, and illegal land allocations in the longest dictatorship...