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Bruno Jullien et Wilfried Sand-Zantman
décembre 2020
George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard et Harris Dellas
vol. 10, 2020, p. 3030–70
We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the propagation mechanism that best describes the observed business cycles, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium-scale variety. Our findings support the...
Erica Doro et Vincent Réquillart
vol. 101, 2020, p. 117–146
Loredana Ureche-Rangau, Sébastien Pouget et Marie Brière
vol. 138, décembre 2020
Les investisseurs institutionnels s'engagent-ils dans la question des externalités produites par les entreprises, telles que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre ? Nous étudions le vote dans les assemblées générales des actionnaires de deux investisseurs emblématiques : BlackRock, un gérant de...
Stéphan Marette et Vincent Réquillart
vol. 101, 2020, p. 5–22
This introductory article presents the three main challenges faced in economics to issues raised by dietary models. The first part of this paper examines the dietary models that maximise the health profile of a population under various constraints, including environmental and agronomic criteria....
Boris Van Leeuwen, Paul Smeets, Jeanne Bovet, Gideon Nave, Jonathan Stieglitz et Andrew Whitehouse
vol. 287, n° 1941, décembre 2020
Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D : 4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use...
Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven
vol. 9, n° e62883, décembre 2020
In comparative cross-species perspective, humans experience unique physical impairments with potentially large consequences. Quantifying the burden of impairment in subsistence populations is critical for understanding selection pressures underlying strategies that minimize risk of production...
Emmanuelle Lavaine, Philippe Majerus et Nicolas Treich
vol. 101, décembre 2020, p. 517–528
In this paper, we discuss the health impact of animal agriculture through air pollution. While this impact is potentially considerable, we argue that it has been largely overlooked by regulators as well as by researchers, and in particular by economists. We discuss the methods, results, limitations...
James K. Hammitt
vol. 61, décembre 2020, p. 129–154
In evaluating the appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a key parameter is the rate of substitution between wealth and mortality risk, conventionally summarized as the value per statistical life (VSL). For the United States, VSL is estimated as approximately $10 million, which implies the...
Paul Seabright
n° 10, 2020, p. 345–357
The fact that adherents of most religions subscribe sincerely to many counter-empirical beliefs has been argued to pose a challenge to evolutionary explanations of religion, since natural selection is considered to have developed sophisticated cognitive mechanisms to enable prehistoric foragers to...
