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Victor Gay
vol. 54, n° 4, août 2021, p. 189–207
This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements,...
Volker Nocke et Patrick Rey
n° 21-1239, août 2021, révision octobre 2022
In this paper, we develop a model of within-firm sequential, directed search and study a firm’s ability and incentive to steer consumers. The paper’s main insight is that the firm often benefits from garbling the information it provides to consumers. This induces consumers to keep searching but...
Augustin Tapsoba
n° 21-1240, août 2021, révision août 2022
This paper studies how short-term changes in aggregate economic conditions influence family formation outcomes in the presence of polygyny. It develops a simple marriage market framework with overlapping generations in which polygyny is modeled as a sequential one-to-one matching, and bride price...
Takuro Yamashita et Roberto Sarkisian
n° 21-1241, août 2021
In many mechanism design problems in practice, often allocation externality exists (e.g., peer effects in student allocation, and post-license com- petition in oligopoly). Despite the practical importance, mechanism design with allocation externality has not been much explored in the literature,...
Takuro Yamashita et Shuguang Zhu
n° 21-1242, août 2021
We study a mechanism design problem where the principal can also manipulate the agent’s information about a payoff-relevant state. Jointly designing information and allocation rule is proved equivalent to certain multi-dimensional screening problem. Based on this equivalence, when the agent’s types...
Kathryn Schwartz et Omar Youssef Cheta
vol. 252, n° 1, août 2021, p. 179–211
In 1871, an Italian-Jewish printer published a peculiar Arabic treatise from Cairo. It promoted strengthening legal pluralism in Khedival Egypt by realigning laws there to accord with those of the Ottoman Empire and European states. Composed by the printer’s legal team, the treatise questioned how...
Zachary Garfield
vol. 3, n° e45, août 2021
Conflicts are ubiquitous between individuals as well as between groups. Effective conflict resolution is essential for individual well-being and group functioning and often involves leadership dynamics. The evolutionary human sciences have suggested that conflict resolution is shaped by...
Christophe Bontemps, Douadia Bougherara et Céline Nauges
vol. 26, n° 4, août 2021, p. 609–630
Even if there exists an extensive literature on the modeling of farmers’ behavior under risk, actual measurements of the quantitative impact of risk aversion on input use are rare. In this article, we use simulations to quantify the impact of risk aversion on the optimal quantity of input and...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Maleke Fourati, Josepa Miquel-Florensa et Paul Seabright
vol. 144, n° 105441, août 2021
We conducted an experimental study in Haiti testing for the relationship between religious belief and individual risk taking behavior. 774 subjects played lotteries in a standard neutral protocol and subsequently with reduced endowments but in the presence of religious images of Catholic,...
Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy et Mauricio Tejada
vol. 223, n° 2, août 2021, p. 433–453
We develop a search and matching model where rms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specic productivity and worker-specic human capital. The human capital is accumulated while working but depreciates while searching for a job. Jobs can be formal or informal. The model is...
