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Catarina Goulão, Juan Antonio Lacomba, Francisco Lagos et Dan-Olof Rooth
n° 23-1438, mai 2023
Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in the hiring process. However, whether overweight job...
Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stéphane Bonhomme et Jack Light
n° 23-1435, mai 2023
In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2005-2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. We build on the nonlinear quantile framework introduced in Arellano, Blundell and Bonhomme (2017). Our focus is on the...
Sean Ennis, Marc Ivaldi et Vicente Lagos
vol. 66, n° 2, mai 2023
This paper examines the impact of most favored nation (MFN) clauses on retail prices, taking advantage of two natural experiments that changed vertical contracting between hotels and major digital platforms. The broad E.U. intervention narrowed the breadth of “price parity” obligations between...
Ingela Alger, Laura Juarez, Miriam Juarez-Torres et Josepa Miquel-Florensa
vol. 37, n° 2, mai 2023, p. 205–220
This study presents evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, conducted in eight small, rural villages in Mexico, in which subjects choose to exert real effort to fund real health centers in their own and other localities. The results show that women are more willing than men to exert effort to...
Ingela Alger
vol. 378, n° 1876, mai 2023
The 50-year old concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key toolfor theorists to model ultimate drivers of behaviour in social interactions. Fordecades, economists ignored ultimate drivers and used models in which individ-uals choose strategies based on their preferences—a proximate...
Koen Jochmans
vol. 38, n° 3, mai 2023, p. 321–333
Identification of peer effects is complicated by the fact that the individuals under study may self-select their peers. Random assignment to peer groups has proven useful to sidestep such a concern. In the absence of a formal randomization mechanism it needs to be argued that assignment is `as good...
James K. Hammitt et Tuba Tuncel
mai 2023
Individuals’ monetary values of decreases in mortality risk depend on the magnitude and timing of the risk reduction. We elicited stated preferences among three time paths of risk reduction yielding the same increase in life expectancy (decreasing risk for the next decade, subtracting a constant...
Piret Avila et Charles Mullon
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach have made invaluable contributions to understanding how gradual evolution leads to adaptation when individuals interact. Here, we review some of the basic tools that have come out of these contributions to model the evolution of...
Kinga Makovi, Anahit Sargsyan, Wendi Li, Jean-François Bonnefon et Tahal Rahwan
n° 3108, mai 2023
With the progress of artificial intelligence and the emergence of global online communities, humans and machines are increasingly participating in mixed collectives in which they can help or hinder each other. Human societies have had thousands of years to consolidate the social norms that promote...
Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur et Estelle Malavolti
n° 23-1433, mai 2023
Because of population aging, dependency represents a major societal challenge. While some of the issues including insurance design and the provision of Long-Term-Care have recently been studied and debated, the potential role of prevention has been mostly neglected. To fill this gap the World...
