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Jonathan Stieglitz, Brooke Scelza, Sean Prall, Tami Blumenfield, Alyssa Crittenden, Michael Gurven, Michelle Kline, Jeremy Koster, Geoff Kushnick, Siobhan Mattison, Elizabeth Pillsworth, Mary K. Shenk, Kathrine Starkweather, Chun-Yi Sum, Kyoko Yamaguchi et Richard McElreath

vol. 4, juillet 2019, p. 20–26

Long-lasting, romantic partnerships are a universal feature of human societies, but almost as ubiquitous is the risk of instability when one partner strays. Jealous response to the threat of infidelity is well studied, but most empirical work on the topic has focused on a proposed sex difference in...

Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni, Thomas Mariotti et Gwenaël Piaser

n° 19-1014, juin 2019, révision septembre 2020

We study competing-mechanism games under exclusive competition: principals first simultaneously post mechanisms, after which agents simultaneously choose to participate and communicate with at most one principal. In this setting, which is common to competing-auction and competitive-search...

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer et Chiara Monfardini

n° 19-1015, juin 2019

Our model studies couples' time allocation and career choices, which are affected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children's social...

Ulrich Hege et Pierre Mella-Barral

n° 19-1016, juin 2019

Ce papier examine deux mécanismes mis en avant pour une renégociation efficace de la dette, lorsque les détenteurs d'obligations sont dispersés: offres d'échange de dette, promettant des droits de liquidation accrus à un nombre limité de créanciers (favorisé par la loi américaine), et clauses d'...

Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti et François Salanié

n° 19-1017, juin 2019, révision octobre 2019

We study resource allocation under private information when the planner cannot prevent bilateral side trading between consumers and firms. Adverse selection and side trading severely restrict feasible trades: each marginal quantity must be fairly priced given the consumer types who purchase it. The...

Lisa A. Robinson, William Raich et James K. Hammitt

n° 19-1018, juin 2019

The estimates used by U.S. Federal agencies and others to value reductions in fatality risks generally reflect adults’ willingness to trade income for changes in their own risks. Several studies have now been completed that address the value of risk reductions to children. We review these studies...

Meng-Wen Tsou, Jin-Tan Liu, James K. Hammitt, Chyi-Horng Lu et Szu-Yu Zoe Kao

n° 19-1019, juin 2019

We estimate the effect of prenatal exposure to radiation on infant health. By exploiting the 1983 Taiwanese radiation-contaminated buildings (RCBs) accident as a natural experiment, we compare birth outcomes between siblings and cousins exposed to different radiation levels. Given the 1983 accident...

James K. Hammitt, Fangli Geng, Xiaoqi Guo et Chris P. Nielsen

n° 19-1020, juin 2019

We estimate the marginal rate of substitution of income for reduction in current annual mortality risk (the “value per statistical life” or VSL) using stated-preference surveys administered to independent samples of the general population of Chengdu China in 2005 and 2016. We evaluate the quality...

Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni et Gwenaël Piaser

n° 19-1021, juin 2019

We study games in which principals simultaneously post mechanisms in the presence of several agents. We evaluate the role of principals’ communication in these settings. As in Myerson (1982), each principal may generate incomplete information among agents by sending them private signals. We show...

Jean-François Bonnefon et Sylvie Borau

juin 2019, p. 45–63

Recent research suggests that women react to idealized female models in advertising as they would react to real-life sexual rivals. Across four studies, we investigate the negative consequences of this imaginary competition on consumers’ mate-guarding jealousy, indirect aggression, and drive for...