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Christophe J. Rowan, Michael A. Eskander, Edmond Seabright, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Daniel Cummings, Adrian Juan Copajira, Bret A. Beheim, Tolstrup Kirsten, Achrekar Abinash, Michael I. Miyamoto, Thomas S. Kraft, David E. Michalik, Adel H. Allam, L. Samuel Wann, Jagat Narula, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Gregory Thomas, Randall C. Thompson, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven

vol. 87, n° 1, février 2021, p. 18

Background: Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in post-industrialized populations. Older age, hypertension, obesity, chronic inflammation, and diabetes are significant atrial fibrillation risk factors, suggesting that modern urban environments may promote atrial fibrillation....

Manvir Singh

vol. 62, n° 1, février 2021

In nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are caused by malicious group mates using magic or supernatural powers. Here I report cross-cultural patterns in these beliefs and propose a theory to explain them. Using the newly created Mystical Harm Survey, I show that...

Tiziana Assenza, Alberto Cardaci et Dominico Delli Gatti

n° 19-1055, février 2021, révision février 2021

Existing evidence suggests that individuals frequently misperceive the value of their wealth. We test the existence, and estimate sign and magnitude, of an inaccurate perception of individual net worth. By conducting a laboratory experiment, we find that most subjects perceive a given net worth as...

Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili et Stéphane Straub

vol. 132, n° 103655, février 2021

We use data from seven low and middle income countries with diverse drug procurement systems to assess the eect of centralized procurement on drug prices, and provide a theoretical mechanism that explains this eect. Our empirical analysis is based on exhaustive data on drug sales quantities and...

Helia Costa et Linda Veiga

vol. 94, n° 105055, février 2021

Investment in wind power has grown remarkably in the past decades in Portugal. Although economic development is an argument for investment incentive policies, little evidence exists as to their net impact on local-level unemployment. Using data for all 278 Portuguese mainland municipalities for the...

Ingela Alger, Konrad Dierks et Jean-François Laslier

n° 21-122, février 2021, révision avril 2024

We analyze the turnout decisions of ethical voters, equipped with (semi-)Kantian preferences: a voter considers the election outcome that would arise if other voters behaved like him. The “others” can be limited to co-partisans (“partisan ethics”) or not (“non-partisan ethics”). In a standard model...

Florence Lespiau, Astrid Hopfensitz et Gwenaël Kaminski

vol. 82, n° 102335, janvier 2021

Birth order supposedly influences individuals’ cooperative attitudes: firstborns are more family-oriented and favor their kin, while laterborns are more likely to turn to non-kin. However little direct experimental evidence exists concerning costly resource sharing between full siblings. The...

Margot Dazey

vol. 27, n° 1, janvier 2021, p. 189–205

Islamist movements are often considered the epitomes of transnational movements; however, little is known about the concrete workings of their transnational ambitions. In investigating the evolution of Muslim activists in France from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, this article shows that their...

Christian Gouriéroux et Alain Monfort

vol. 17, janvier 2021, p. 1–22

Matthew Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt et Nicolas Treich

vol. 75, n° 102412, janvier 2021

The social value of risk reduction (SVRR) is the marginal social value of reducing an individual’s fatality risk, as measured by some social welfare function (SWF). This Article investigates SVRR, using a lifetime utility model in which individuals are differentiated by age, lifetime income profile...