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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...

Zachary Garfield, Kristen Syme, and Edward H. Hagen

vol. 41, n. 5, September 2020, p. 397–414, 17 pages

Many researchers have turned to evolutionary theory to better understand diversity in leadership. Evolutionary theories of leadership, in turn, draw on ethnographic cases of societies thought to more closely resemble the smaller-scale, face-to-face communities in which humans evolved. Currently,...

Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Marie-Louise Leroux, and Pierre-Carl Michaud

vol. 12, n. 3, August 2020, pp. 134–169

This paper conducts a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect against nancial risks associated with long-term care needs. Using exogenous variation in prices from the survey design and individual cost estimates, these stated-choice...

Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti, and François Salanié

vol. 130, n. 630, August 2020, pp. 1608–1622

We study resource allocation under private information when the planner cannot prevent bilateral side trading between consumers and firms. Adverse selection and side trading severely restrict feasible trades: each marginal quantity must be fairly priced given the consumer types who purchase it. The...

Maxime Derex, and Alex Mesoudi

vol. 24, n. 8, August 2020, pp. 654–667

Maxime Derex, and Robert Boyd

vol. 43, August 2020

Romain Espinosa, Damian Tago, and Nicolas Treich

vol. 76, August 2020, pp. 1019–1044

Most infectious diseases in humans originate from animals. In this paper, we explore the role of animal farming and meat consumption in the emergence and amplification of infectious diseases. First, we discuss how meat production increases epidemic risks, either directly through increased contact...

Boris Babic, Daniel L. Chen, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Anne-Laure Fayard

August 2020

Sébastien Gadat, Clément Marteau, and Cathy Maugis

vol. 56, n. 2, August 2020, pp. 1391–1418

Christian Gollier

vol. 45, August 2020, pp. 80–93

Most integrated models of the covid pandemic have been developed under the assumption that the policy-sensitive reproduction number is certain. The decision to exit from the lockdown has been made in most countries without knowing the reproduction number that would prevail after the deconfinement....