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Sreemati Mitter

vol. 50, n. 3, July 2021, pp. 39–42

This essay attempts to rectify the silence about the willful expropriation, by British and Israeli forces, of private Palestinian financial assets. Placing at its core the stories of ordinary Palestinians, it explores how they were robbed of their bank accounts, bonds, stocks, pensions, salaries,...

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...

Pierre Dubois, and Tuba Tuncel

vol. 78, n. 102461, July 2021

We investigate how the prescribing behavior of physicians reacts to scientific information and recommendations released by public authorities. Taking the example of antidepressant drugs, we use French panel data on exhaustive prescriptions made by a representative sample of general practitioners to...

Manvir Singh, Alberto Acerbi, Christine Caldwell, Etienne Danchin, Guillaume Isabel, Lucas Molleman, Thom Scott-Philips, Monica Tamariz, Pieter Van der Berg, Edwin Van Leeuwen, and Maxime Derex

vol. 376, n. 1828, July 2021

Cultural evolution requires the social transmission of information. For this reason, scholars have emphasized social learning when explaining how and why culture evolves. Yet cultural evolution results from many mechanisms operating in concert. Here, we argue that the emphasis on social learning...

Stefan Ambec, and Jessica Coria

vol. 199, n. 104439, July 2021

We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown and emissions are taxed. A firm might abate pollution beyond what is...

Tim Caro, Haji Hamad, Suleiman Rashid, Ulrike Kloiber, Victoria M. Morgan, Ossi Nokelainen, Barnabas Caro, Ilaria Pretelli, Neil Cumberlidge, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

vol. 55, n. 4, July 2021, pp. 556–563

The coconut crab Birgus latro, the largest terrestrial decapod, is under threat in most parts of its geographical range. Its life cycle involves two biomes (restricted terrestrial habitats near the coast, and salt water currents of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans). Its dependence on coastal...

Doh-Shin Jeon, Bruno Jullien, and Mikhail Klimenko

vol. 131, n. 103439, July 2021

The dominance of English language content on the Internet raises a question of how consumer bilingualism in a given country a§ects the amount of home language content and the countryís welfare. We address this question by studying two-sided market competition between a foreign and a domestic...

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...

Lauren Bader, Liu Tan, Richard Gonzalez, Ekjyot Saini, Yeonjee Bae, Livio Provenzi, and Brenda L. Volling

vol. 63, n. 5, July 2021, pp. 1534–1548

Father‐infant and mother‐infant (one‐year‐olds) adrenocortical attunement was explored during the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) among 125 father‐infant and 141 mother‐infant dyads. Cortisol was assessed at baseline (T1), 20 (T2), and 40 minutes (T3) after the first parent‐infant separation....

David Bardey, and Luigi Siciliani

vol. 30, n. 2, July 2021, pp. 472–500

We investigate the effect of competition in the nursing homes sector with a two-sided market approach. More precisely, we investigate the distributional implications across the three key actors involved (residents, nurses and nursing homes) that arise from the two-sidedness of the market. Within a...