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Augustin Tapsoba
n° 20-1127, juillet 2020, révision août 2022
The fear of exposure to conflict events often triggers changes in the behavior of economic agents even before/without any manifestation of violence in a given area. It generates a treatment status (exposure to the adverse effects of conflict) that goes beyond violence incidence. This paper develops...
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari
n° 20-1121, juillet 2020
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed...
J. Gilhodes, Florence Dalenc, Jocelyn Gal, C. Zemmour, Eve Leconte, Jean Marie Boher et Thomas Filleron
vol. 2020, n° 6795392, juillet 2020, p. 13 pages
Over the last decades, molecular signatures have become increasingly important in oncology and are opening up a new area of personalized medicine. Nevertheless, biological relevance and statistical tools necessary for the development of these signatures have been called into question in the...
Christian Gouriéroux, Alain Montfort et Jean-Paul Renne
vol. 87, n° 4, juillet 2020, p. 1915–1953
Carmen Hové, Benjamin C. Trumble, Amy Anderson, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven et Aaron D. Blackwell
n° 1, juillet 2020, p. 114–128
Background and objectives: Among placental mammals, females undergo immunological shifts during pregnancy to accommodate the fetus (i.e. fetal tolerance). Fetal tolerance has primarily been characterized within post-industrial populations experiencing evolutionarily novel conditions (e.g. reduced...
David Martimort et Perrin Lefebvre
vol. 82, n° 3, juillet 2020, p. 1026–1043
Marc Ivaldi et Jiekai Zhang
n° 20-1112, juin 2020, révision mars 2021
This paper contributes to the analysis of mergers in two-sided markets, notably those in which a platform provides its service for free on one side but obtains all its revenues from the other, as in the digital TV industry. Specifically, we assess a decision of the French competition authority...
Lauren Bader, J.M. Ward, H.B. Moran, Hillary Fouts et Julia Jaekel
vol. 7, n° 6, juin 2020, p. 1–19
Refugees often parent under extreme circumstances. Parenting practices have implications for child outcomes, and parenting in the context of refugee resettlement is likely to be dynamic as parents negotiate a new culture. This study examined African origin mothers’ infant care values and practices...
Koen Jochmans et Vincenzo Verardi
vol. 20, juin 2020, p. 468–480
Jane Conway, Michel-Pierre Coll, Helio Clemente Cuve, Sofia Koletsi, Nicholas Bronitt, Caroline Catmur et Geoffrey Bird
vol. 149, n° 6, juin 2020, p. 1032–1047
The human ability to make inferences about the minds of conspecifics is remarkable. The majority of work in this area focuses on mental state representation (‘theory of mind’), but has had limited success in explaining individual differences in this ability, and is characterized by the lack of a...
