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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,...

Anthony Fardet, Marion Desquilbet et Edmond Rock

août 2021, p. 1–11

In France, hypermarkets are the main shopping sites for food products. Therefore, the food-purchasing profiles of their regular customers may be a relevant indicator of the sustainability and health potentials of consumed diets. Knowing this information can be a step to address the issue of global...

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...

Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti et François Salanié

vol. 111, n° 8, août 2021, p. 2623–2659

This paper studies competitive allocations under adverse selection. We rst provide a general necessary and sucient condition for entry on an inactive market to be unprotable. We then use this result to characterize, for an active market, a unique budget-balanced allocation implemented by a market...

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...

Catarina Goulão et Agustín Pérez-Barahona

n° 21-1236, juillet 2021, révision juin 2023

We look at how social norms regarding health affect the dynamics of an epi-demic of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). We present an overlapping generations model in which agents live for three periods (childhood, adulthood and old age). Adulthood consumption choices have an impact on the...

Pierre Dubois et Tuba Tuncel

vol. 78, n° 102461, juillet 2021

We investigate how the prescribing behavior of physicians reacts to scientific information and recommendations released by public authorities. Taking the example of antidepressant drugs, we use French panel data on exhaustive prescriptions made by a representative sample of general practitioners to...

François Salanié et Vera Zaporozhets

n° 21-1235, juillet 2021

We analyze the problem of allocating irrigation water among het- erogenous farmers when water supply is stochastic. If farmers are risk-neutral, a spot market for water is e¢ cient; while the oft-used uniform rationing system is ine¢ cient, both ex-ante and ex-post. In- deed, we show that it leads...

Stefan Ambec et Jessica Coria

vol. 199, n° 104439, juillet 2021

We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown and emissions are taxed. A firm might abate pollution beyond what is...

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels et Andrew Zeitlin

vol. 111, n° 7, juillet 2021, p. 2213–2246

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a "pay-for-percentile" or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...