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Ingela Alger

vol. 190, October 2021, pp. 228–254

Since a man’s reproductive success depends on his ability to outcompete other men, male competitiveness may be expected to have been exposed to strong selective pressure throughout human history. Accordingly, the relatively low level of physical violence observed between men has been viewed as a...

India Schneider-Crease, Aaron D. Blackwell, Thomas S. Kraft, Melissa Emery Thompson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Daniel Cummings, Jonathan Stieglitz, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 9, n. 1, October 2021, p. 349–359

Lukas Dargel

vol. 2, n. 10, October 2021

This article develops improved calculation techniques for estimating the spatial econometric interaction model of LeSage and Pace (2008) by maximum likelihood (MLE), Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and spatial two-stage least-squares (S2SLS). The refined estimation methods derive the...

Jean-François Bonnefon

October 2021

Raymond Duch, Laurence Roope, Mara Violato, MF Becerra, T. Robinson, Jean-François Bonnefon, Jorge Friedman, Peter Loewen, P. Mamidi, Alessia Melegaro, M. Blanco, Juan F. Vargas, J. Seither, P. Candio, AG Cruz, X. Hua, Adrian Barnett, and Philip Clarke

vol. 118, n. 8, September 2021

How does the public want a COVID-19 vaccine to be allocated? We conducted a conjoint experiment asking 15,536 adults in 13 countries to evaluate 248,576 profiles of potential vaccine recipients that varied randomly on five attributes. Our sample includes diverse countries from all continents. The...

Stephanie Assad, Emilio Calvano, Giacomo Calzolari, Robert Clark, Daniel Ershov, Justin Johnson, Sergio Pastorello, Andrew Rhodes, Lei XU, Matthijs Wildenbeest, and Vincenzo Denicolò

vol. 37, n. 3, September 2021, p. 459–478

Markets are being populated with new generations of pricing algorithms, powered with Artificial Intelligence, that have the ability to autonomously learn to operate. This ability can be both a source of efficiency and cause of concern for the risk that algorithms autonomously and tacitly learn to...

Claude Crampes, and Yassine Lefouili

n. 15, September 2021, pp. 37–41

This paper investigates the trade-offs associated with the digitalization of the energy sector. Arguing that digitalization has both bright and dark sides, we study the extent to which it can help make energy systems efficient and sustainable. We first discuss how digitalization affects the...

Péter Bayer, Jean-Jacques Herings, and Ronald Peeters

vol. 196, n. 105311, September 2021

Farsighted economic agents can use their advantage to exploit their more myopic counterparts. In public goods games played on networks, such an agent will attempt to manipulate as many of his neighbors as possible to contribute to the public good. We study the exploitation of a myopic population by...

Eric Reinhart, and Daniel L. Chen

September 2021

Mass incarceration is known to foster infectious disease outbreaks, amplification of infectious diseases in surrounding communities, and exacerbation of health disparities in disproportionately policed communities. To date, however, policy interventions intended to achieve epidemic mitigation in US...

Michael Becher, Daniel Stegmueller, Sylvain Brouard, and Eric Kerrouche

vol. 102, n. 5, September 2021, pp. 2106–2123