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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...
Sébastien Gadat et Ioana Gavra
n° 228, août 2022, p. 1–54
This paper studies some asymptotic properties of adaptive algorithms widely used in optimization and machine learning, and among them Adagrad and Rmsprop, which are involved in most of the blackbox deep learning algorithms. Our setup is the non-convex landscape optimization point of view, we...
Helia Costa, Mauro Pisu et Vatsala Shreeti
n° 22-1351, août 2022
The use of digital financial services (DFS) in developing countries can be a tool for financial inclusion, curbing tax evasion, and facilitating the efficient delivery of public services. Using a unique event { an un-announced and large scale demonetization process that took place in 2016 in India...
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...
Ingela Alger
n° 22-1355, août 2022, révision décembre 2022
The 50-year old definition of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key tool for theorists to model ultimate drivers of behavior in social interactions. For decades economists ignored ultimate drivers and used models in which individuals choose strate-gies based on their preferences. This...
n° 22-144, août 2022, révision décembre 2022
Helmuth Cremer et Catherine Muller-Vibes
n° 2022-1353, août 2022
In the first part, we examine from a theoretical perspective how the cost of the mission of postal transport and delivery of newspapers should be defined and by which factors it is determined. In particular we show that a crucial ingredient in the determination of this cost is the variation in...
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....
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...
Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti et François Salanié
vol. 63, n° 3, août 2022, p. 981–1020
We study insurance markets in which privately informed consumers can purchase coverage from several firms whose pricing strategies are subject to an anti-dumping regulation. The resulting regulated game supports a single allocation in which each layer of coverage is fairly priced given the consumer...
