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Etienne Danchin, Sabine Noebel, Arnaud Pocheville, and Guillaume Isabel

vol. 31, n. 6, December 2020, pp. 1292–1293

Christian Gollier

vol. 22, n. 6, December 2020, pp. 1746–1771

I calibrate a Multiple‐Risk Susceptible–Infected–Recovered model on the covid pandemic to analyze the impact of the age‐specific confinement and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing policies on incomes and mortality. Two polar strategies emerge as potentially optimal. The suppression policy...

Céline Bonnet, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Vincent Réquillart, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 97, n. 101847, December 2020

Meat consumption has increased significantly in the last 50 years. This trend raises various health and environmental issues, as well as moral concerns regarding farm animal welfare. In this paper, we discuss the regulation of meat consumption in developed countries. Specifically, we discuss...

Christian Gollier

vol. 138, December 2020, pp. 89–104

Comme le montre le mouvement des gilets jaunes, beaucoup de concitoyens pensent que le changement climatique est grave, mais ne sont pas prêts à contribuer à l'effort collectif pour le prévenir. Les entreprises et le monde de la finance peuvent-ils se substituer à ce somnambulisme des citoyens et...

Loredana Ureche-Rangau, Sébastien Pouget, and Marie Brière

vol. 138, December 2020

Les investisseurs institutionnels s'engagent-ils dans la question des externalités produites par les entreprises, telles que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre ? Nous étudions le vote dans les assemblées générales des actionnaires de deux investisseurs emblématiques : BlackRock, un gérant de...

Marion Desquilbet, Laurence Gaume, Manuela Grippa, Régis Céréghino, Jean-François Humbert, Jean-Marc Bonmatin, Pierre-André Cornillon, Dirk Maes, Hans Van Dyck, and David Goulson

vol. 370, n. 6523, December 2020, p. eabd8947

Van Klink et al. (Reports, 24 April 2020, p. 417) argue for a more nuanced view of insect decline, and of human responsibility for this decline, than previously suggested. However, shortcomings in data selection and methodology raise questions about their conclusions on trends and drivers. We call...

James K. Hammitt

vol. 61, December 2020, pp. 129–154

In evaluating the appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a key parameter is the rate of substitution between wealth and mortality risk, conventionally summarized as the value per statistical life (VSL). For the United States, VSL is estimated as approximately $10 million, which implies the...

Boris Van Leeuwen, Paul Smeets, Jeanne Bovet, Gideon Nave, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Andrew Whitehouse

vol. 287, n. 1941, December 2020

Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D : 4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use...

Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

vol. 9, n. e62883, December 2020

In comparative cross-species perspective, humans experience unique physical impairments with potentially large consequences. Quantifying the burden of impairment in subsistence populations is critical for understanding selection pressures underlying strategies that minimize risk of production...

François Causeret, Stéphane Cezera, and J.M Rousselle

n. 101, December 2020

This document applies to anybody who wants to understand what is Experimental Economics and the benefits that can profit from this approach for empirical works which validity and scope can be evaluated in a scientific work. In a pragmatic way are described in this document the different steps to be...