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Ingela Alger
n° 24-1605, décembre 2024, révision avril 2025
Norms indicate which behaviors are common and/or considered morally right. This paper analyzes norms and norm change by modeling individuals with social-Kantian preferences, combining material self-interest, Kantian moral concerns, and attitudes towards making a greater or a smaller material...
Stefan Ambec et Jessica Coria
n° 24-1604, décembre 2024
Public consultations are widely used in regulatory processes, allowing stakeholders to present their viewpoints despite their inherent biases. Some stakeholders, such as firms, are known to be pro-business, while others, such as environmental NGOs, are pro-environment. We develop a framework to...
Jeremy Horowitz, Giacomo Lemoli et Kristin Michelitch
n° 24-1603, décembre 2024, révision juin 2025
In weak-state settings, clientelism is persistent yet normatively fraught, constituting a “legal gray area”. This study examines two key features of commonplace clientelism that may govern whether and to what extent citizens deem it punishable by the law. We posit a “par-ticularism penalty,” by...
Felipe Gonzalez, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem et Stéphane Straub
décembre 2024
Infrastructure can drive development, but history shows it can also be used for political control. Paraguay’s roads under Stroessner's dictatorship highlight this dual nature, providing valuable lessons for today’s policymakers.
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac et Arnaud Maurel
n° 24-1602, décembre 2024
We study best linear predictions in a context where the outcome of interest and some of the covariates are observed in two different datasets that can-not be matched. Traditional approaches obtain point identification by relying, often implicitly, on exclusion restrictions. We show that without...
Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer et Daniel L. Chen
2024
We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women’s rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students’ support for women’s rights, unbiasedness in gender IATs, and willingness to petition...
Eric Schniter, Daniel Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven
vol. 9, n° 3-4, 2024
We examine various forms of helping behaviour among Tsimane Amerindians of Bolivia, focusing on the provision of shelter, childcare, food, sickcare, cultural influence and traditional story knowledge. Kin selection theory traditionally explains nepotistic nurturing of youth by closely related kin....
Olivier Faugeras
n° 24-1601, décembre 2024, révision mars 2025
Motivated by finding a way to deal with Compositional Data (CoDa) with or without zeroes in a unified way, we build upon the previous projective geometry viewpoint of Faugeras (2023) and use the tools provided by the exterior product and Grassmann’s algebra. These allow to represent higher...
Olivier De Groote et Minyoung Rho
n° 24-1600, décembre 2024
We use data from a platform that centralizes a day care matching process. We estimate parents’ preferences and nursery priorities by analyzing parents’ rank-ordered lists and nurseries’ acceptance decisions. We account for strategic behavior by using a novel estimation approach inspired by the...
Fabrice Collard, Michel Habib, Ugo Panizza et Jean-Charles Rochet
n° 24-1599, décembre 2024
We study the sustainability of sovereign debt under the assumption of involuntary and costly default: governments do their utmost to avoid default, which reduces the resources available for debt service. We show that costly default tightens Blanchard’s g > r condition. We derive a formula for a...
