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Marcel Boyer et Molivann Panot
n° 20-1165, novembre 2020
Marcel Boyer
n° 20-1166, novembre 2020
Jad Beyhum, Jean-Pierre Florens et Ingrid Van Keilegom
n° 20-1164, novembre 2020
This paper analyzes the effect of a discrete treatment Z on a duration T. The treatment is not randomly assigned. The confoundingness issue is treated using a discrete instrumental variable explaining the treatment and independent of the error term of the model. Our framework is nonparametric and...
Karine Van Der Straeten, Rumilda Cañete, Stéphane Straub et Josepa Miquel-Florensa
vol. 179, novembre 2020, p. 223–239
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that giving voters more power – both formally through the use of more “open” electoral systems and informally through easier access to information on politicians’ wrongdoings – will necessarily result in them voting corrupt politicians out of office....
n° 20-1169, novembre 2020
: In the assessment of the cost of public funds, there is a pervasive economic fallacy, which is frequently repeated by officials in both the private and public sectors as well as in academia: since the cost of borrowing is higher for a private sector firm than it is for a public sector firm, the...
Emmanuelle Lavaine, Philippe Majerus et Nicolas Treich
n° 20-1158, novembre 2020
Although animal agriculture is critical to the subsistence of smallholders in some poor countries, the global detrimental impact of animal farming is now both well documented and overwhelming. Animal farming is a primary cause of deforestation (De Sy et al., 2015), biodiversity loss (Machovina et...
Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich
n° 20-1159, novembre 2020
NGOs often vary in terms of how radical they are. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of NGO discourses in bringing about social change. We focus on animal advocacy: welfarist NGOs primarily seek to improve the conditions in which animals are raised and reduce meat consumption, while...
Ingela Alger et Jean-François Laslier
n° 20-1168, novembre 2020, révision octobre 2021
This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority problem and the strategic revelation of information—in the light of evolutionarily founded partial Kantian morality. It is shown that, compared to electorates consisting of purely self-interested voters,...
n° 20-118, novembre 2020, révision octobre 2021
Thomas S. Kraft, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Angela Garcia, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven
vol. 375, n° 1811, novembre 2020
Humans have the longest post-reproductive lifespans and lowest rates of actuarial ageing among primates. Understanding the links between slow actuarial ageing and physiological change is critical for improving the human ‘healthspan’. Physiological dysregulation may be a key feature of ageing in...
