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Alejandrina Cristia, Gianmatteo Farabolini, Camila Scaff, Naomi Havron, and Jonathan Stieglitz

vol. 15, n. 9, September 2020

Language input in childhood and literacy (and/or schooling) have been described as two key experiences impacting phonological processing. In this study, we assess phonological processing via a non-word repetition (NWR) group game, in adults and children living in two villages of an ethnic group...

David Martimort, and Jérôme Pouyet

vol. 72, September 2020, p. 102643

Bertrand Jayles, Ramon Escobedo, Roberto Pasqua, Christophe Zanon, Adrien Blanchet, Matthieu Roy, Gilles Tredan, Guy Théraulaz, and Clément Sire

vol. 375, n. 1807, September 2020

Social media filters combined with recommender systems can lead to the emergence of filter bubbles and polarized groups. In addition, segregation processes of human groups in certain social contexts have been shown to share some similarities with phase separation phenomena in physics. Here, we...

Tanya Broesch, Alyssa Crittenden, Bret A. Beheim, Aaron D. Blackwell, John Bunce, Heidi Colleran, Kristin Hagel, Michelle Kline, Richard McElreath, Robin Nelson, Anne Pisor, Sean Prall, Ilaria Pretelli, Benjamin Purzycki, Elizabeth Quinn, Cody Ross, Brooke Scelza, Kathrine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

vol. 287, n. 1935, September 2020

The intensifying pace of research based on cross-cultural studies in the social sciences necessitates a discussion of the unique challenges of multi-sited research. Given an increasing demand for social scientists to expand their data collection beyond WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich...

François Bachoc, Mark G. Genton, Klaus Nordhausen, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, and Joni Virta

vol. 107, n. 3, September 2020, pp. 627–646

Recently a blind source separation model was suggested for spatial data together with an estimator based on the simultaneous diagonalization of two scatter matrices. The asymptotic properties of this estimator are derived here and a new estimator, based on the joint diagonalization of more than two...

Henrik Andersson, Yana Jin, and Shiqiu Zhang

vol. 103, September 2020

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...

David Bardey, Denis Gromb, David Martimort, and Jérôme Pouyet

vol. 68, n. 3, September 2020, pp. 409–444

A monopoly seller advising buyers about which of two goods fits their needs may be tempted to recommend the higher margin good. For the seller to collect information about a buyer’s needs and provide truthful advice, the profits from selling both goods must be similar enough, i.e., within an...

Bertrand Jayles, Ramon Escobedo, Stéphane Cezera, Adrien Blanchet, Tatsuya Kameda, Clément Sire, and Guy Théraulaz

vol. 117, n. 20200496, September 2020

A major problem resulting from the massive use of social media is the potential spread of incorrect information. Yet, very few studies have investigated the impact of incorrect information on individual and collective decisions. We performed experiments in which participants had to estimate a...

Marc Ivaldi, and Emil Palikot

n. 46, September 2020, pp. 68–93