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Kostanca Dhima, Sona Golder, Laura Stephenson et Karine Van Der Straeten
vol. 73, n° 102381, octobre 2021
Existing research about the effects of electoral systems on descriptive representation is mixed. In this paper, we test implications of theoretical arguments about the impact of electoral rules on voters’ propensity to vote for women candidates. We conducted a survey experiment during the 2017...
Ingela Alger
vol. 190, octobre 2021, p. 228–254
Since a man’s reproductive success depends on his ability to outcompete other men, male competitiveness may be expected to have been exposed to strong selective pressure throughout human history. Accordingly, the relatively low level of physical violence observed between men has been viewed as a...
India Schneider-Crease, Aaron D. Blackwell, Thomas S. Kraft, Melissa Emery Thompson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Daniel Cummings, Jonathan Stieglitz, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan et Benjamin C. Trumble
vol. 9, n° 1, octobre 2021, p. 349–359
Shahid Naeem, Sarah Gould Bruner et Anouch Missirian
vol. 31, n° 19, octobre 2021
The science underpinning biodiversity's importance to human well-being seems to be taken up little by environmental decision makers. Since the 1950s, ecological, evolutionary and environmental research has pointed to the importance of biodiversity as a significant factor influencing the stability...
Fériel Boulfani, Xavier Gendre, Anne Ruiz-Gazen et Martina Salvignol
octobre 2021
The sizing of aircraft electrical generators mainly depends on the electrical loads installed in the aircraft. Currently, the generator capacity is estimated by summing the critical loads, but this method tends to overestimate the generator capacity. A new method to challenge this approach is to...
Yuzuru Kumon
n° 21-124, octobre 2021
How unequal were the commons preceding their enclosure in the 18th-19th cen-turies? This paper uses data from the parliamentary enclosure acts to estimate in-equality. Inclusive of the landless, I find gini coefficients ranged from 0.65-0.82 while the landless typically composed 40-50% of the...
Frédéric Cherbonnier et Christophe Lévêque
n° 21-1255, octobre 2021
Competition can theoretically counter or reinforce tendency of experts to pass biased information to customers. Using data from an online company connecting real estate brokers with clients who want to sell their properties, we show that more competition or lower opportunity to collude induce...
Cristina Gualdani
vol. 224, n° 2, octobre 2021, p. 345–370
We study identification of the players’ preferences in a network formation game featuring complete information, nonreciprocal links, and a spillover effect. We decompose the network formation game into local games such that the network formation game is in equilibrium if and only if each local game...
Jean-François Bonnefon
Linqun Liu et Nicolas Treich
This paper studies the role of risk attitudes in determining the optimality of winner-take-all contests. We compare the typical singlewinner lottery contest with two alternatives, both spreading the rewards to more players: through holding multiple prize-giving lottery competitions or through...
