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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,...
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,...
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...
Marie-Laure Allain, Claire Chambolle, Patrick Rey, and Sabrina Teyssier
vol. 137, August 2021
In a vertical chain in which two rivals invest before contracting with one of two competing suppliers, partial vertical integration may create hold-up problems for the rival. We develop an experiment to test this theoretical prediction in two setups, in which suppliers can either pre-commit ex ante...
Christophe Bontemps, Douadia Bougherara, and Céline Nauges
vol. 26, n. 4, August 2021, p. 609–630
Even if there exists an extensive literature on the modeling of farmers’ behavior under risk, actual measurements of the quantitative impact of risk aversion on input use are rare. In this article, we use simulations to quantify the impact of risk aversion on the optimal quantity of input and...
Christophe Gaillac, and Eric Gautier
vol. 27, n. 72, August 2021
The Fourier transform truncated on [−c, c] is usually analyzed when acting on L 2 (−1/b, 1/b) and its right-singular vectors are the prolate spheroidal wave functions. This paper considers the operator acting on the larger space L 2 (cosh(b·)) on which it remains injective. We give nonasymptotic...
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...
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...
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, and Andrew Zeitlin
vol. 111, n. 7, July 2021, pp. 2213–2246
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a "pay-for-percentile" or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, and Arnaud Maurel
vol. 12, n. 3, July 2021, pp. 817–842
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two dierent datasets that cannot be matched. We...
