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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...
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...
Boris Babic, Daniel L. Chen, Theodoros Evgeniou et Anne-Laure Fayard
août 2020
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...
Jérôme Renault et Bruno Ziliotto
vol. 45, n° 3, août 2020, p. 889–895
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...
Romain Espinosa, Damian Tago et Nicolas Treich
vol. 76, août 2020, p. 1019–1044
Most infectious diseases in humans originate from animals. In this paper, we explore the role of animal farming and meat consumption in the emergence and amplification of infectious diseases. First, we discuss how meat production increases epidemic risks, either directly through increased contact...
Sébastien Gadat, Clément Marteau et Cathy Maugis
vol. 56, n° 2, août 2020, p. 1391–1418
Maxime Derex et Alex Mesoudi
vol. 24, n° 8, août 2020, p. 654–667
n° 34, juillet 2020, p. 1–14
Most integrated models of the Covid pandemic have been developed under the assumption that the policy-sensitive reproduction number is certain. The decision to exit from the lockdown has been made in most countries without knowing the reproduction number that would prevail after the deconfinement....
