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Nina Hestermann, Yves Le Yaouanq et Nicolas Treich

vol. 129, n° 103569, octobre 2020

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this “meat paradox” using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...

Victor Gay

n° 20-1151, octobre 2020

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements,...

Alexandre de Cornière et Miklos Sarvary

n° 20-1152, octobre 2020, révision août 2021

The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand the impact of third-party content bundling by a social platform that has a monopoly on showing user-generated content...

Jeremy Bowles et Horacio Larreguy

n° 20-112, 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...

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...

Jean-François Bonnefon et Iyad Rahwan

vol. 24, n° 12, octobre 2020, p. 1019–1027

Intelligent machines do not really think ‘fast and slow’ as per dual-process models of human psychology, but this analogy can impact the decisions of various stakeholders. These stakeholders include engineers, user experience designers, regulators and ethicists, and the end users who interact with...

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...

Anna D’Annunzio, M. Mardan et Antonio Russo

vol. 51, n° 3, octobre 2020, p. 786–804

Jihyun Kim et Nour Meddahi

vol. 218, n° 2, octobre 2020, p. 690–713

Nowadays, a common method to forecast integrated variance is to use the fitted value of a simple OLS autoregression of the realized variance. However, non-parametric estimates of the tail index of this realized variance process reveal that its second moment is possibly unbounded. In this case, the...

Anders Bondemark, Henrik Andersson, Anders Wretstrand et Karin Brundell-Freij

vol. 70, octobre 2020

One of the reasons to subsidise public transport is to improve the mobility of low-income groups by providing affordable public transport; however, the literature describes a situation whereby those with a low income are unable to afford the cheapest tickets per trip, i.e. travelcards, as they...