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Ingela Alger et Jean-François Laslier

n° 20-118, 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,...

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...

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...

Chiara Canta et Helmuth Cremer

n° 20-1156, novembre 2020

We study the design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when informal care is exchange-based. Parents do not observe their children's cost of providing care, which is continuously distributed over some interval. They choose a rule specifying transfers that are conditional on the level of...

Arnaud Tognetti, Valérie Durand, Mélissa Barkat-Defradas et Astrid Hopfensitz

vol. 111, n° 4, novembre 2020, p. 823–839

The sound of the voice has several acoustic features that influence the perception of how cooperative the speaker is. It remains unknown, however, whether these acoustic features are associated with actual cooperative behaviour. This issue is crucial to disentangle whether inferences of traits from...

Jeremy Bowles et Horacio Larreguy

n° 20-1153, octobre 2020

We examine how candidate selection into the supply of policy information determines its electoral effects. In a nationwide debate initiative designed to solicit and rebroadcast policy promises from Liberian legislative candidates, we randomized the encouragement of debate participation across...

Soeren Henn, Horacio Larreguy et John Marshall

n° 20-1154, octobre 2020

Sébastien Gadat, Fabien Panloup et C. Pellegrini

n° 20-1155, octobre 2020, révision février 2022

Megan Arnot, Eva Brandl, Olk Campbell, Yuan Chen, Juan Du, Mark Dyble, Erhao Ge, Emily Emmott, Luke Kretschmer, Ruth Mace, Alberto Micheletti, Sarah Nila, Sarah Peacey, Hanzhi Zhang et Gul Deniz Salali

n° eoaa038, octobre 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology, and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focussing squarely on ‘proximate’ determinants of...

Michael Gurven, Thomas S. Kraft, Sarah Alami, Adrian Juan Copajira, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, Adrian Jaeggi, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Edmond Seabright, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz et Benjamin C. Trumble

vol. 6, n° 44, octobre 2020

Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined over the past two centuries in the United States, coinciding with reductions in infection and increasing life expectancy. The generality of and reasons behind this phenomenon have not yet been well...