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Boris Babic, Daniel L. Chen, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Anne-Laure Fayard
vol. 98, n. 4, August 2020, pp. 56–65
In a 2018 Workforce Institute survey of 3,000 managers across eight industrialized nations, the majority of respondents described artificial intelligence as a valuable productivity tool. But respondents to that survey also expressed fears that AI would take their jobs. They are not alone. The...
Christian Gollier
vol. 76, August 2020, pp. 671–683
Assuming that there is no other solution than herd immunity in front of the current pandemic, on which groups of citizens should we build this herd immunity? Given the fact that young people face a mortality rate which is at least a thousand times smaller than people aged 70 years and more, there...
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...
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....
Cécile Détang-Dessendre, Hervé Guyomard, Vincent Réquillart, and Louis-Georges Soler
vol. 12, n. 16, August 2020, p. 6462
No one would dispute that agricultural systems and food diets are not sustainable from an environmental and health point of view, and that increasing their sustainability must be a major objective of farm and food policies. Simultaneously, climatic, environmental, and health shocks are likely to...
Maxime Derex, and Robert Boyd
vol. 43, August 2020
Eric Reinhart, and Daniel L. Chen
vol. 39, n. 8, August 2020, pp. 1412–1418
Jails and prisons are major sites of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Many jurisdictions in the United States have therefore accelerated the release of low-risk offenders. Early release, however, does not address how arrest and pretrial detention practices may be contributing to disease...
August 2020
Catherine Molho, Joshua Tybur, Paul A.M. Van Lange, and Daniel Balliet
vol. 11, n. 3432, July 2020, pp. 1–9
Across societies, humans punish norm violations. To date, research on the antecedents and consequences of punishment has largely relied upon agent-based modeling and laboratory experiments. Here, we report a longitudinal study documenting punishment responses to norm violations in daily life (k = ...
Carmen Hové, Benjamin C. Trumble, Amy Anderson, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, and Aaron D. Blackwell
n. 1, July 2020, pp. 114–128
Background and objectives: Among placental mammals, females undergo immunological shifts during pregnancy to accommodate the fetus (i.e. fetal tolerance). Fetal tolerance has primarily been characterized within post-industrial populations experiencing evolutionarily novel conditions (e.g. reduced...
