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Léo Fitouchi, Manvir Singh, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard
2025
Why do humans believe in moralizing gods? Leading accounts argue that these beliefs evolved because they help societies grow and promote group cooperation. Yet recent evidence suggests that beliefs in moralizing gods are not limited to large societies and might not have strong effects on...
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed
vol. 69, n. 4, 2025, pp. 731–760
Autocratic elections are often marred with systematic intimidation and violence towards voters and candidates. When do authoritarian regimes resort to violent electoral strategies? I argue that electoral violence acts as a risk-management strategy in competitive authoritarian elections where: (a)...
David Martimort, and Jérôme Pouyet
2025, forthcoming
Pay-TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a Convexity Property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit. Such an exclusive allocation of rights...
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Olivier de Mouzon, Valérie Orozco, Lola Pedrini, and Marine Spiteri
vol. 99, 2025, pp. 220–234
Dans le cadre d'une transition alimentaire vers plus de protéines végétales, nous étudions l'évolution des achats de produits contenant des légumineuses en France. De 2009 à 2019, la consommation de légumineuses hors soja a augmenté de 25 %, mais reste largement inférieure aux recommandations....
Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan, and Susan Yeh
Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer, and Daniel L. Chen
We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women’s rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students’ support for women’s rights, unbiasedness in gender IATs, and willingness to petition...
Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, and Suresh Naidu
Daniel L. Chen, Manoj Kumar, Vishal Motwani, and Philip Yeres
Using data from 1946–2014, we show that audio features of lawyers’ introductory statements and lawyers’ facial attributes improve the performance of the best prediction models of Supreme Court outcomes. We infer face attributes using the MIT-CBCL human-labeled face database and infer voice...
Yannis Katsoulacos, and Marc Ivaldi
2025Joseph Harrington, and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2025
Daniel L. Chen, Jiafeng Chen, and Gregory Lewis
We provide some simple theoretical results that justify incorporating machinelearning in a standard linear instrumental variable setting, prevalent in empiri-cal research in economics. Machine learning techniques, combined with sample-splitting, extract nonlinear variation in the instrument that...
