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Daniel L. Chen

vol. 7, n. 2, October 2020, pp. 190–221

This paper builds and tests a model of marriage as an incomplete contract that arises from asymmetric virginity premiums and examines whether this can lead to social inefficiencies. Contrary to the efficient households hypothesis, women cannot prevent being appropriated by men once they enter...

Christian Gouriéroux, Joann Jasiak, and Alain Montfort

vol. 218, n. 2, October 2020, pp. 714–735

Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez-Torres, and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

vol. 69, n. 1, October 2020, pp. 107–171, 65 pages

How does informal risk sharing affect incentives to avoid risk? While moral hazard is expected under formal insurance, theory suggests that the incentive effects of informal risk sharing are ambiguous: internalization of the external effects of transfers on others may reduce or enhance incentives...

Michael Gurven, Thomas S. Kraft, Sarah Alami, Adrian Juan Copajira, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, Adrian Jaeggi, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Edmond Seabright, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 6, n. 44, October 2020

Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined over the past two centuries in the United States, coinciding with reductions in infection and increasing life expectancy. The generality of and reasons behind this phenomenon have not yet been well...

Francesca Righetti, Daniel Balliet, Catherine Molho, Simon Columbus, Ruddy Faure, Yaprak Bahar, Muhammad Iqmal, Anna Semenchenko, and Ximena Arriaga

vol. 17, n. 20, October 2020, p. 7648

This work adopts an Interdependence Theory framework to investigate how the features of interdependent situations that couples face in their daily life (i.e., situations in which partners influence each other’s outcomes) shape attachment security toward their current partners. An experience...

Christoph Mikulaschek, Saurabh Pant, and Beza Tesfaye

vol. 64, n. 4, October 2020, pp. 773–790

The 'hearts and minds' model of combating rebellions holds that civilians are less likely to support violent opposition groups if the government provides public services and security. Building on this model, we argue that a political event that raises popular expectations of future public service...

Megan Arnot, Eva Brandl, Olk Campbell, Yuan Chen, Juan Du, Mark Dyble, Erhao Ge, Emily Emmott, Luke Kretschmer, Ruth Mace, Alberto Micheletti, Sarah Nila, Sarah Peacey, Hanzhi Zhang, and Gul Deniz Salali

n. eoaa038, October 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology, and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focussing squarely on ‘proximate’ determinants of...

Nina Hestermann, Yves Le Yaouanq, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 129, n. 103569, October 2020

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this “meat paradox” using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...

Christian Bontemps, and Rohit Kumar

vol. 218, n. 2, October 2020, pp. 373–389

In this paper, we consider inference procedures for entry games with complete information. Due to the presence of multiple equilibria, we know that such a model may be set identified without imposing further restrictions. We complete the model with the unknown selection mechanism and characterize...

Yassine Lefouili, and Joana Pinho

vol. 72, n. 102656, September 2020

We study the price and welfare effects of collusion between two-sided platforms and show that they depend on whether collusion occurs on both sides or a single side of the market, and whether users single-home or multi-home. Our most striking result is that one-sided collusion leads to lower (resp...