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Paul Seabright, and Sergey Gavrilets

vol. 122, n. 32, August 2025

People and cultures differ in the extent to which they view the world as a zero-sum environment (where one person’s gain is another’s loss) or a positive-sum environment (where certain actions can benefit everyone). These beliefs shape individuals’ willingness to work, invest, collaborate, or show...

Laurence Daures-Lescouret, Sophie Moinas, and Selma BOUSSETTA

August 2025, pp. 1–24

We examine traders’ order submission strategies during the Euronext preopen,which uses price-time priorities to arrange opening trades via a call auction. Preopeningorder submissions follow a J-shape pattern. Sophisticated proprietary traders arrive late,consistent with information leakage concerns...

Catherine Molho, Ivan Soraperra, Jonathan Schulz, and Shaul Shalvi

August 2025

Impersonal prosociality is considered a cornerstone of thriving civic societies and well-functioning institutions. Previous research has documented cross-societal variation in prosociality using monetary allocation tasks such as dictator games. Here we examined whether different societies may rely...

Jacob E. Aronoff, Carrie L. Jenkins, Angela Garcia, Stephanie Koebele, Suhail Ghafoor, Kate L. Woolard, Mia Charifson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Bret A. Beheim, Daniel Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Thomas K. Kraft, Kenneth Buetow, Caleb Finch, Maximilien Franck, Alan A. Cohen, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 292, n. 2053, August 2025

Romain Espinosa, and Nicolas Treich

August 2025

In this paper, we empirically investigate fairness judgments about animals. We design a survey that addresses major challenges associated with the inclusion of animal welfare in public decisions. Collecting data from a representative sample of the French population (N=1,526), we document the views...

Margot Dazey, and Victor Gay

vol. 58, n. 9, August 2025, p. 2000–2048

How is support for right-wing populist parties affected by exposure to Muslim visibility? Using an original database on French mosques, this article analyzes the relationship between the presence of mosques and support for the Front National at the polling station level in the late 2000s. It finds...

Mengchen Dong, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 16, n. 6973, July 2025

The deployment of AI in welfare benefit allocation accelerates decision-making but has led to unfair denials and false fraud accusations. In the US and UK (N = 3249), we examine public acceptability of speed-accuracy trade-offs among claimants and non-claimants. While the public generally tolerates...

Abdelaati Daouia, and Gilles Stupfler

vol. 188, n. 3, July 2025, pp. 712–713

Fabrice Collard, and Omar Licandro

vol. 57, n. 101284, July 2025

This paper embeds firm dynamics into the Neoclassical model in a framework with partially reversible capital and investment distortions, allowing for a simple characterization of the transitional dynamics of economies moving towards greater selection. At equilibrium, aggregate technology is...

Paul Seabright

vol. 6, n. 1 (2540002), July 2025

This paper summarises the main arguments of Seabright [2024. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People. Princeton: Princeton University Press]. In this paper, I seek to not just to explain how religion has developed through prehistory and through history, but also to...