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Mengchen Dong, Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan
vol. 16, n° 6973, juillet 2025
The deployment of AI in welfare benefit allocation accelerates decision-making but has led to unfair denials and false fraud accusations. In the US and UK (N = 3249), we examine public acceptability of speed-accuracy trade-offs among claimants and non-claimants. While the public generally tolerates...
Abdelaati Daouia et Gilles Stupfler
vol. 188, n° 3, juillet 2025, p. 712–713
Fabrice Collard et Omar Licandro
vol. 57, n° 101284, juillet 2025
This paper embeds firm dynamics into the Neoclassical model in a framework with partially reversible capital and investment distortions, allowing for a simple characterization of the transitional dynamics of economies moving towards greater selection. At equilibrium, aggregate technology is...
Paul Seabright
vol. 6, n° 1 (2540002), juillet 2025
This paper summarises the main arguments of Seabright [2024. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People. Princeton: Princeton University Press]. In this paper, I seek to not just to explain how religion has developed through prehistory and through history, but also to...
Philippe Bontems, Stephen F. Hamilton et Jason Lepore
n° 25-1658, juillet 2025
Multisided platforms have emerged as an increasingly important market structure with the rise of the digital economy. In this paper, we consider sequential price setting behavior by platforms and demonstrate sequential pricing outcomes Pareto dominate simultaneous pricing outcomes in terms of firm...
Olivier De Groote, Anaïs Fabre, Margaux Luflade et Arnaud Maurel
n° 25-1657, juillet 2025
The optimal functioning of centralized allocation systems is undermined by the pres-ence of institutions operating off-platform—a feature common to virtually all real-world implementations. These off-platform options generate justified envy, as students may reject their centralized assignment in...
Jordan S. Martin, Bret A. Beheim, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Paul L. Hooper, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez et Adrian Jaeggi
vol. 11, n° 31, juillet 2025
Explaining the rapid evolution of human cooperation and its role in our species’ biodemographic success remains a major evolutionary puzzle. To address this challenge, we tested a social drive hypothesis, which predicts that social plasticity and social selection in human groups cause indirect...
Phoebe E. Imms, Nikhil Chaudhari, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Giuseppe Barisano, Paul L. Hooper, Katherine Sayre, Edmond Seabright, Randall C. Thompson, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Caleb Finch, Hillard Kaplan, Wendy Mack, Margaret Gatz et Andrei Irimia
n° glaf163, juillet 2025
M.J. Getz, Jacob E. Aronoff, Carrie L. Jenkins, Suhail Ghafoor, J. Vazquez, N.T. Appel, Margaret Gatz, Daniel Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Bret A. Beheim, Kenneth Buetow, Caleb Finch, Gregory Thomas, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan et Benjamin C. Trumble
n° eoaf020, juillet 2025
Frédéric Cherbonnier, Marc Ivaldi, Catherine Muller-Vibes et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 25-1656, juillet 2025
This study estimates the impact of a carbon tax on welfare, considering modal shifts to less carbon-intensive transport, as well as its effects on environmental and fiscal externalities. We calibrate a modal competition model using logit demand functions for a specific long-distance connection in...