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David Bardey et Daniel Mejía
n° 16-720, octobre 2016
This article tackles the feature of optimal public policy such as the level of enforcement and the supply of public goods in an economy characterized by a huge informal sector. We consider informality as the group of productive activities which,before hand, do not comply (totally or partially) with...
Daniel L. Chen et Eric Reinhart
n° 16-721, octobre 2016, révision février 2017
Principles of apoliticality and personal disinterestedness subtend the American judiciary’s claims to legitimacy and the liberal constitutional legal system it upholds. Less than 1% of U.S. Federal judges report political motivations for retirement and resignation. Our data suggest political...
Daniel L. Chen et Jo Thori Lind
n° 16-722, octobre 2016
Why are religious groups with greater within-group charitable giving more socially conservative and opposed to the welfare state? We propose and test a theory where religious provision of social insurance explains why fiscal and social conservatism align. The alignment disappears when there is a...
Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan et Susan Yeh
n° 16-723, octobre 2016
Whether policies shift preferences is relevant to policy design. We exploit the random assignment of U.S. federal judges creating geographically local precedent and the fact that judges’ politics, religion, and race predict decision-making in abortion jurisprudence. Instrumenting for abortion...
Daniel L. Chen et Martin Schonger
n° 16-724, octobre 2016, révision février 2020
Most papers that employ the strategy method (SM) use many observations per subject to study responses to rare or off-equilibrium behavior that cannot be observed using direct elicitation (DE), but ignore that the strategic equivalence between SM and DE holds for the monetary payoff game but not the...
Daniel L. Chen
n° 16-725, octobre 2016
This paper proposes a reference-point dependent model of social behavior where individuals maximize a three-term utility function: a consumption utility term and two “social” terms. One social term captures a preference for desert (i.e., others getting what we think they deserve) and the other term...
Daniel L. Chen et J.J. Prescott
n° 16-726, octobre 2016
Implicit egotism—in particular, positive unconscious associations that individuals have with others who share their names or first initials—is a mainstay of modern psychology textbooks, but the interpretation of prior field studies has recently come under criticism for lack of adequate control,...
Céline Nauges et Dale Whittington
n° 16-727, octobre 2016
Nikrooz Nasr Esfahani et Doh-Shin Jeon
vol. 8, n° 4, octobre 2016, p. 91–114
This paper studies how news aggregators affect the quality choices of newspapers competing on the Internet. To provide a micro-foundation for the role of the aggregator, we build a model of multiple issues where newspapers choose their quality on each issue. Our model captures well the main trade-...
Manh-Hung Nguyen et Arnaud Reynaud
Springer Netherlands, vol. 21, n° 5, octobre 2016, p. 603–617
A choice experiment is used to estimate how Vietnamese households value a flood risk reduction. The empirical analysis is conducted on a sample of households located in the Nghe An Province, one of the provinces which is the most affected by floods in Vietnam. The results reveal that there is a...
