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Pierre Dubois, and Tuba Tuncel
vol. 78, n. 102461, July 2021
We investigate how the prescribing behavior of physicians reacts to scientific information and recommendations released by public authorities. Taking the example of antidepressant drugs, we use French panel data on exhaustive prescriptions made by a representative sample of general practitioners to...
Lauren Bader, Liu Tan, Richard Gonzalez, Ekjyot Saini, Yeonjee Bae, Livio Provenzi, and Brenda L. Volling
vol. 63, n. 5, July 2021, pp. 1534–1548
Father‐infant and mother‐infant (one‐year‐olds) adrenocortical attunement was explored during the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) among 125 father‐infant and 141 mother‐infant dyads. Cortisol was assessed at baseline (T1), 20 (T2), and 40 minutes (T3) after the first parent‐infant separation....
David Bardey, and Luigi Siciliani
vol. 30, n. 2, July 2021, pp. 472–500
We investigate the effect of competition in the nursing homes sector with a two-sided market approach. More precisely, we investigate the distributional implications across the three key actors involved (residents, nurses and nursing homes) that arise from the two-sidedness of the market. Within a...
Doh-Shin Jeon, Bruno Jullien, and Mikhail Klimenko
vol. 131, n. 103439, July 2021
The dominance of English language content on the Internet raises a question of how consumer bilingualism in a given country a§ects the amount of home language content and the countryís welfare. We address this question by studying two-sided market competition between a foreign and a domestic...
Georges Casamatta
vol. 23, n. 3, June 2021, pp. 534–550
We determine the optimal income tax schedule when individuals have the possibility of avoiding paying taxes. Considering a convex concealment cost function, we find that a subset of individuals, located in the interior of the income distribution, should be allowed to avoid taxes, provided that the...
Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bago, and David Rand
June 2021
What are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western countries? In a two-wave study completed early (March) and later (December) in the pandemic, we found that polarization was greater in the United...
Jean Tirole
vol. 13, June 2021, pp. 1–17
Emmanuel Farhi passed away on July 23, 2020. After depicting his scientific style and values, this tribute discusses how he transformed the theory of taxation, macroeconomics, and international finance, and describes his approach and insights through a sample of his remarkable contributions to...
Manh-Hung Nguyen, Thi Lan Anh Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Arnaud Reynaud, Michel Simioni, and Viet-Ngu Hoang
vol. 70, June 2021, pp. 529–543
The paper presents one of the first economic analyses of residents’ choice of different coastal erosion control measures in a developing country — Vietnam. Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was selected given the frequency of coastal erosion events which have caused increasing damages to...
Jean-Paul Azam
vol. 4, n. 1, June 2021
Manvir Singh
vol. 13, n. 3, June 2021
