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Daniel L. Chen et Susan Yeh
vol. 107, n° 102799, mars 2025
Do laws shape values? We explore this question by testing a model of law and norms within a legal realm − U.S. obscenity laws − where economic incentives are not the primary drivers of social change. Our randomized experiment had data entry workers transcribe news reports of either progressive or...
Lea Karbevska et César Hidalgo
vol. 14, n° 21, mars 2025
Laura Doval et Alex Smolin
vol. 22, n° 2, mars 2025, p. 56–65
In this letter, we summarize our recent work on the welfare impact of recommendation algorithms and propose questions for further study. We model recommendation algorithms as an information structure, which shapes how a third party takes actions that affect the welfare of different individuals in a...
Christian Bontemps, Jean-Pierre Florens et Nour Meddahi
vol. 248, mars 2025
In this paper, we consider the problem of ecological inference when one observes the conditional distributions of Y|W and Z|W from aggregate data and attempts to infer the conditional distribution of Y|Z without observing Y and Z in the same sample. First, we show that this problem can be...
Luc Attia, Lyuben Lichev, Dieter Mitsche, Raimundo Saona et Bruno Ziliotto
mars 2025
Philippe Gagnepain et David Martimort
n° 25-1631, mars 2025
We explore empirically the impact of the market sharing collusive practices that were implemented in the French public transportation industry between 1994 and 1999. We build a structural model of bidding markets where innovating firms compete for the market and have the ability to spread the...
Matthew Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt, Eugénie de Laubier et Nicolas Treich
n° 25-1630, mars 2025
The fair innings principle states that fairness requires allocating life-saving treatments to younger rather than older patients when each would gain the same extension in longevity. It is motivated by the notion that older patients have already benefited from a longer life and so have less claim...
Wei Lu et Daniel L. Chen
vol. 20(3), n° e0318790., mars 2025
This study explores politically motivated reasoning among U.S. Circuit Court judges over the past 120 years, examining their writing style and use of previous case citations in judicial opinions. Employing natural language processing and supervised machine learn- ing, we scrutinize how judges’...
Stéphane Caprice et Shiva Shekhar
n° 25-1629, mars 2025
In this paper, we study supplier encroachment in competition with multi-product retailers and its effects on retail profits under endoge-nous consumer shopping behavior. We find that supplier encroach-ment (weakly) increases both supplier and retailer profits, as the re-tailer benefits from better...
Violeta I. Haas, Konstantin Bogatyrev, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Heike Klüver et Lukas F. Stoetzer
n° 25-1628, mars 2025
Do strategies of state-sponsored homophobia translate into electoral gains?While a growing body of literature documents the increasing politicization of LGBTQ- and gender-related issues by illiberal elites, little is known about the electoral effects of these strategies. We address this important...
