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Stéphane Lemarié, Valérie Orozco, Jean-Pierre Butault, Antonio Musolesi, Michel Simioni et Bertrand Schmitt
septembre 2020
This paper analyses the economic impact of agricultural research on productivity in France over the period 1959-2012. Adopting a dynamic time series model, we provide evidence that the impact of French agricultural research is in the range of values estimated for other countries, with the estimated...
Jean-Pierre Amigues, Ujjayant Chakravorty, Gilles Lafforgue et Michel Moreaux
n° 20-1138, août 2020
In order to encourage substitution of fossil fuels by cleaner renewables, regulatory agencies have generally chosen between two types of renewable energy standards. They have either mandated a minimum volume of renewable energy as in the case of ethanol in transport fuels, and for electricity in...
Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu et Manh-Hung Nguyen
n° 20-1136, août 2020
This paper studies optimal quarantines (can also be interpreted as lockdowns or selfisolation) when there is an infectious disease with SIS dynamics and infections can cause disease related mortality in a dynamic general equilibrium neoclassical growth framework. We characterize the optimal...
Eric Reinhart et Daniel L. Chen
vol. 39, n° 8, août 2020, p. 1412–1418
Jails and prisons are major sites of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Many jurisdictions in the United States have therefore accelerated the release of low-risk offenders. Early release, however, does not address how arrest and pretrial detention practices may be contributing to disease...
Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Marie-Louise Leroux et Pierre-Carl Michaud
vol. 12, n° 3, août 2020, p. 134–169
This paper conducts a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect against nancial risks associated with long-term care needs. Using exogenous variation in prices from the survey design and individual cost estimates, these stated-choice...
Bence Bago, David Rand et Gordon Pennycook
vol. 149, n° 8, août 2020, p. 1608–1613
What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and “fake news”? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that deliberation causes people to fall for fake news, because reasoning facilitates identity-protective cognition and is therefore used to...
Farid Gasmi, Laura Recuero Virto et Denis Couvet
vol. 77, n° 2, août 2020, p. 271–333
In a dataset on 83 countries covering the years 1960–2009, we find a negative indirect effect of the share of renewable natural capital in wealth on economic growth transmitted through demographic factors, more specifically, population fertility. In contrast, in countries with lower income...
Christian Gollier
vol. 76, août 2020, p. 671–683
Assuming that there is no other solution than herd immunity in front of the current pandemic, on which groups of citizens should we build this herd immunity? Given the fact that young people face a mortality rate which is at least a thousand times smaller than people aged 70 years and more, there...
Maxime Derex et Robert Boyd
vol. 43, août 2020
Alban Thomas, Claire Lamine, Benjamin Allès, Yuna Chiffoleau, Antoine Doré, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier et Mourad Hannachi
vol. 101, août 2020, p. 23–46
We discuss in this paper the role of the economic and social organization in agriculture and the food industry, in relation with the Health-Agriculture-Food-Environment (HAFEN) concept. The aim is to better understand the potential impact of the implementation of this concept in food consumption...
