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Romain Espinosa et Nicolas Treich
2025, à paraître
In this paper, we empirically investigate fairness judgments about animals. We design a survey that addresses major challenges associated with the inclusion of animal welfare in public decisions. Collecting data from a representative sample of the French population (N=1,526), we document the views...
Benjamin Ouvrard, Arnaud Reynaud et Murudaiah Sivamurthy
vol. 11, n° 1, 2025
Using an experimental setting inspired by the empirical social choice literature, we analyze how Indian farmers define fair water allocation. We investigate the choices of 240 Indian farmers who — as a neutral third-party — are asked to make water allocation decisions in situations that differ,...
Léo Fitouchi, Manvir Singh, Jean-Baptiste André et Nicolas Baumard
2025
Why do humans believe in moralizing gods? Leading accounts argue that these beliefs evolved because they help societies grow and promote group cooperation. Yet recent evidence suggests that beliefs in moralizing gods are not limited to large societies and might not have strong effects on...
Christian Gollier
Because of risk aversion, any sensible investment valuation system should value less projects that contribute more to the aggregate risk. In theory, this is done by adjusting discount rates to consumption betas. But in reality, most public institutions use a dis-count rate that is rather...
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed
vol. 69, n° 4, 2025, p. 731–760
Autocratic elections are often marred with systematic intimidation and violence towards voters and candidates. When do authoritarian regimes resort to violent electoral strategies? I argue that electoral violence acts as a risk-management strategy in competitive authoritarian elections where: (a)...
Mengchen Dong, Jane Conway, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff et Iyad Rahwan
Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Olivier de Mouzon, Valérie Orozco, Lola Pedrini et Marine Spiteri
vol. 99, 2025, p. 220–234
Dans le cadre d'une transition alimentaire vers plus de protéines végétales, nous étudions l'évolution des achats de produits contenant des légumineuses en France. De 2009 à 2019, la consommation de légumineuses hors soja a augmenté de 25 %, mais reste largement inférieure aux recommandations....
Ayden Higgins et Koen Jochmans
We consider the problem of identifying the parameters of a time-homogeneous bivariate Markov chain when only one of the two variables is observable. We show that, subject to conditions that we spell out, the transition kernel and the distribution of the initial condition are uniquely recoverable (...
Alexandre de Cornière et Greg Taylor
Daniel L. Chen, Vardges Levonyan et Susan Yeh
