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Sarah Ann Wheeler, Céline Nauges, and Alec Zuo

vol. 68, n. 102274, May 2021

The exact relationship between people’s climate change attitudes and behaviour is a topic that engages policy-makers and researchers worldwide. Do climate change attitudes influence behaviour or is it possible that behaviour can change attitudes? This study uses a unique repeated survey dataset of...

Cécile Aubert, and Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron

May 2021

Helmuth Cremer, Justina Klimaviciute, and Pierre Pestieau

vol. 202, n. 109810, May 2021

This paper studies the political sustainability of programs that are targeted towards the poor. Given that the poor to whom these programs cater do not constitute a majority, we show that for their own good it pays to let the middle class benefit from them in a random way. This approach mimics the...

Adrian Jaeggi, Aaron D. Blackwell, Christopher Von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Angela Garcia, Thomas S. Kraft, Bret A. Beheim, and Paul L. Hooper

n. 10:e59437, May 2021

Cesar Mantilla, Ling Zhou, Charlotte Wang, Donghui Yang, Suping Shen, and Paul Seabright

vol. 185, May 2021, pp. 211–233

Do people discriminate between co-ethnics and others in cooperative interactions? In an experiment in China, we find that participants in trust games send around 15% more to partners they know to be co-ethnics than to those whose ethnicity they do not know. Re- ceivers’ behavior is determined by...

Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 126, n. 103069, May 2021

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promise of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that revolutionizes transportation safety and convenience depends as much on overcoming the psychological barriers to their widespread use as the technological and legal challenges. The first AV-related traffic fatalities have...

Benjamin Gans, Angela Neunuebel, Leah Umbarger, Benjamin C. Trumble, Daniel Cummings, Samuel Wann, Kyle Lehenbauer, Ashna Mahadev, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, David E. Michalik, Christophe J. Rowan, Caleb Finch, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, Adel H. Allam, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Gregory Thomas, and Randall Thompson

vol. 4, May 2021

The sternal foramen, usually an asymptomatic osteological defect, can lead to catastrophic consequences if not recognized prior to certain medical procedures. This study reports the prevalence of a sternal foramen in two South Amerindian populations compared with other published populations. We...

Marianne Fay, David Martimort, and Stéphane Straub

vol. 150, n. 102629, May 2021

Attracting private nancing is high on the agenda of policy makers concerned with closing the infrastructure gap in developing countries. To date, however, private nance represents a minor share of overall infrastructure financing and the poorest countries struggle to attract any private investors....

Andrei Irimia, Nikhil Chaudhari, David Robles, Kenneth Rostowsky, Alexander Maher, Nahian Chowdhury, Maria Calvillo, Ngo Van Long, Margaret Gatz, Wendy Mack, Meng Law, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, Christophe J. Rowan, Samuel Wann, Adel H. Allam, Randall Thompson, David E. Michalik, Daniel Cummings, Edmond Seabright, Sarah Alami, Angela Garcia, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, Gregory Thomas, Caleb Finch, and Hillard Kaplan

May 2021

Brain atrophy is correlated with risk of cognitive impairment, functional decline, and dementia. Despite a high infectious disease burden, Tsimane forager-horticulturists of Bolivia have the lowest prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis of any studied population and present few cardiovascular...

Marion Desquilbet, Pierre-André Cornillon, Laurence Gaume, and Jean-Marc Bonmatin

vol. 5, May 2021, p. 592–594