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Helmuth Cremer et Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

n° 21-1223, mai 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan

vol. 126, n° 103069, mai 2021

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promise of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that revolutionizes transportation safety and convenience depends as much on overcoming the psychological barriers to their widespread use as the technological and legal challenges. The first AV-related traffic fatalities have...

Cesar Mantilla, Ling Zhou, Charlotte Wang, Donghui Yang, Suping Shen et Paul Seabright

vol. 185, mai 2021, p. 211–233

Do people discriminate between co-ethnics and others in cooperative interactions? In an experiment in China, we find that participants in trust games send around 15% more to partners they know to be co-ethnics than to those whose ethnicity they do not know. Re- ceivers’ behavior is determined by...

Marianne Fay, David Martimort et Stéphane Straub

vol. 150, n° 102629, mai 2021

Attracting private nancing is high on the agenda of policy makers concerned with closing the infrastructure gap in developing countries. To date, however, private nance represents a minor share of overall infrastructure financing and the poorest countries struggle to attract any private investors....

Cécile Aubert et Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron

mai 2021

Adrian Jaeggi, Aaron D. Blackwell, Christopher Von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Angela Garcia, Thomas S. Kraft, Bret A. Beheim et Paul L. Hooper

n° 10:e59437, mai 2021

Benjamin Gans, Angela Neunuebel, Leah Umbarger, Benjamin C. Trumble, Daniel Cummings, Samuel Wann, Kyle Lehenbauer, Ashna Mahadev, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, David E. Michalik, Christophe J. Rowan, Caleb Finch, Linda Sutherland, James Sutherland, Adel H. Allam, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Gregory Thomas et Randall Thompson

vol. 4, mai 2021

The sternal foramen, usually an asymptomatic osteological defect, can lead to catastrophic consequences if not recognized prior to certain medical procedures. This study reports the prevalence of a sternal foramen in two South Amerindian populations compared with other published populations. We...

Nicolas Treich

vol. 79, mai 2021, p. 33–61

Cultured meat involves producing meat from animal cells, not from slaughtered animals. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with wide implications for the environment, health and animal welfare. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate some economic...

Thierry Magnac et Sébastien Roux

vol. 134, n° 103715, mai 2021

Using data on French male wage workers observed over 30 years, we estimate by random and fixed effect methods a wage equation with pervasive heterogeneity. Individual wage profiles are derived from a human capital investment model and described by a level, a slope and a curvature. Among others, our...

Helmuth Cremer, Justina Klimaviciute et Pierre Pestieau

vol. 202, n° 109810, mai 2021

This paper studies the political sustainability of programs that are targeted towards the poor. Given that the poor to whom these programs cater do not constitute a majority, we show that for their own good it pays to let the middle class benefit from them in a random way. This approach mimics the...