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Justin Pappas Johnson, and Andrew Rhodes

vol. 52, n. 3, September 2021, pp. 633–661

We investigate mergers in markets where quality differences between products are central and firms may reposition their product lines by adding or removing products of different qualities following a merger. Such mergers are materially different from those studied in the existing literature....

Philippe De Donder, and Marie-Louise Leroux

September 2021

We study the demand for actuarially fair Long Term Care (LTC hereafter) insurance in a setting where autonomous agents only care for daily life consumption while dependent agents also care for LTC expenditures. We assume that dependency decreases the marginal utility of daily life consumption. We...

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...

Zoe Purcell, Stephanie Howarth, Colin Wastell, Andrew Roberts, and Naomi Sweller

vol. 81, August 2021

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has been used in thousands of studies across several fields of behavioural research. The CRT has fascinated scholars because it commonly elicits incorrect answers despite most respondents possessing the necessary knowledge to reach the correct answer. Traditional...

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy, and Mauricio Tejada

vol. 223, n. 2, August 2021, pp. 433–453

We develop a search and matching model where rms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specic productivity and worker-specic human capital. The human capital is accumulated while working but depreciates while searching for a job. Jobs can be formal or informal. The model is...

Bruno Biais, Christophe Bisière, Matthieu Bouvard, and Catherine Casamatta

Antonio Fernandez Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Maurice Herlihy, and Maria Potop Butucaru (eds.), August 2021

Kathryn Schwartz, and Omar Youssef Cheta

vol. 252, n. 1, August 2021, pp. 179–211

In 1871, an Italian-Jewish printer published a peculiar Arabic treatise from Cairo. It promoted strengthening legal pluralism in Khedival Egypt by realigning laws there to accord with those of the Ottoman Empire and European states. Composed by the printer’s legal team, the treatise questioned how...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Maleke Fourati, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, and Paul Seabright

vol. 144, n. 105441, August 2021

We conducted an experimental study in Haiti testing for the relationship between religious belief and individual risk taking behavior. 774 subjects played lotteries in a standard neutral protocol and subsequently with reduced endowments but in the presence of religious images of Catholic,...

Victor Gay

vol. 54, n. 4, August 2021, pp. 189–207

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements,...

Zachary Garfield

vol. 3, n. e45, August 2021

Conflicts are ubiquitous between individuals as well as between groups. Effective conflict resolution is essential for individual well-being and group functioning and often involves leadership dynamics. The evolutionary human sciences have suggested that conflict resolution is shaped by...