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Davy Paindaveine et Thomas Vertdebout

vol. 48, 2020, p. 2982–2998

Etienne Danchin, Sabine Noebel, Arnaud Pocheville et Guillaume Isabel

vol. 31, n° 6, décembre 2020, p. 1292–1293

Valérie Orozco, Christophe Bontemps, Elise Maigné, V. Piguet, A. Hofstetter, Anne Lacroix, F. Levert et J.M Rousselle

vol. 34, n° 5, décembre 2020, p. 1134–1169

Empirical economics and econometrics (EEE) research now relies primarily on the application of code to data sets. Handling the workflow that links data sets, programs, results, and finally manuscript(s) is essential if one wishes to reproduce results. Herein, we highlight the importance of “...

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...

Asma Hassannezhad et Laurent Miclo

vol. 53, n° 1, 2020, p. 43–88

We prove a lower bound for the k-th Steklov eigenvalues in terms of an isoperimetric constant called the k-th Cheeger-Steklov constant in three different situations: finite spaces, measurable spaces, and Riemannian manifolds. These lower bounds can be considered as higher order Cheeger type...

David Martimort et Lars Stole

vol. 2, n° 3, 2020, p. 375–396

Jad Beyhum

vol. 24, novembre 2020, p. 688–702

This paper considers the problem of inference in a linear regression model with outliers where the number of outliers can grow with sample size but their proportion goes to 0. We apply an estimator penalizing the `1-norm of a random vector which is non-zero for outliers. We derive rates of...

Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber et Paul Seabright

vol. 135, n° 4, novembre 2020, p. 1799–1848

This paper provides experimental support for the hypothesis that insurance can be a motive for religious donations. We randomize enrollment of members of a Pentecostal church in Ghana into a commercial funeral insurance policy. Then church members allocate money between themselves and a set of...

Bruno Biais et Augustin Landier

vol. 87, n° 6, novembre 2020, p. 2542–2567

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....