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Jacques Crémer, Gary Biglaiser et André Veiga

vol. 53, n° 3, août 2022, p. 453–483

We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive sto- chastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant and can either accept them or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to delay migration...

Mateo Montenegro et Natalia Garbiras-Diaz

vol. 112, n° 8, août 2022, p. 2631–2668

Can information and communication technologies help citizens monitor their elections? We analyze a large-scale field experiment designed to answer this question in Colombia. We leveraged Facebook advertisements sent to over 4 million potential voters to encourage citizen reporting of electoral...

James K. Hammitt et Seung Kyum Kim

n° 114, août 2022, p. 3743–3761

This paper uses the difference-in-differences method to assess how home prices change in the periods after major hurricanes in Miami-Dade County and links these changes to risk-perception determinants that affect market participants’ determination of the prices they are willing to accept or pay....

Eric Arias, Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall et Pablo Querubin

vol. 20, n° 4, août 2022, p. 1433–1477

Effective policy-making requires that voters avoid electing malfeasant politicians. However, as our simple learning model emphasizing voters’ prior beliefs and updating highlights, informing voters of incumbent malfeasance may not entail sanctioning. Specifically, electoral punishment of incumbents...

Chiara Canta et Helmuth Cremer

n° 2022-1352, août 2022

We study the optimal long-term care policy when informal care can be provided by children in exchange for monetary transfers by their elderly parents. We consider a bargaining model with single-child families. Daughters have a lower labor market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family...

Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, Valéria Romano, Maxime Derex, Erik Gjesfjeld, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Marcus J. Hamilton, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Felix Riede et Sergi Lozano

vol. 37, n° 8, août 2022, p. 632–636

Hunter–gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to...

Zhe Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Ruofan Wang et Daniel L. Chen (éds.)

Cambridge University Press, août 2022

Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage...

Marcel Boyer

juillet 2022

Traditionally, labour concerns have not been top-of-mind when considering competition policy, but the current approach to wage-fixing, anti-poaching, and anti-mobility agreements between firms has been one of the main reasons behind recent Parliamentary attention to competition policy and labour...

James K. Hammitt

vol. 84, n° 102643, juillet 2022

The social value of decreasing health risks can be evaluated using benefit-cost analysis (BCA), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), or a social-welfare function (SWF). These frameworks can produce different social preference rankings of interventions depending on how their health effects and costs...

Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Christoph Rheinberger et James K. Hammitt

vol. 84, n° 102627, juillet 2022

Many stated-preference studies that seek to estimate the marginal willingness-to-pay (WTP) for reductions in mortality or morbidity risk suffer from inadequate scope sensitivity. One possible reason is that the risk reductions presented to respondents are too small to be meaningful. Survey...