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Elisabetta Iossa, Simon Loertscher, Leslie Marx et Patrick Rey
vol. 16, n° 1, février 2024, p. 224–261
While antitrust authorities strive to detect, prosecute, and thereby deter collusive conduct, entities harmed by that conduct are also advised to pursue their own strategies to deter collusion. The implications of such delegation of deterrence have largely been ignored, however. In a procurement...
Tanay Katiyar, Jean-François Bonnefon, Samuel Mehr et Manvir Singh
n° e50, février 2024
To succeed, we posit that research cartography will require high-throughput natural description to identify unknown unknowns in a particular design space. High-throughput natural description, the systematic collection and annotation of representative corpora of real-world stimuli, faces logistical...
Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu et Manh-Hung Nguyen
vol. 77, février 2024, p. 197–234
This paper studies continuing optimal lockdowns (can also be interpreted as quaran-tines or self-isolation) in the long run if a disease (Covid-19) is endemic and immunity can fail, that is, the disease has SIRS dynamics. We model how disease related mortality affects the optimal choices in a...
Koen Jochmans et Martin Weidner
vol. 40, n° 1, février 2024, p. 60–97
We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of that variable. This is common practice in, for example, teacher value-added models and other fixed-effect models for panel data. We use an asymptotic...
Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Tommaso Cesari, Roberto Colomboni, Federico Fusco et Stefano Leonardi
vol. 49, n° 1, février 2024
Mai Hassan, Horacio Larreguy et Stuart Russell
vol. 118, n° 4, janvier 2024, p. 1913–1930
Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians’ incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Other studies instead point to the role of bureaucratic managers in allocating government jobs to close contacts. We jointly consider the relative...
Haneul Jang, Cody Ross, Adam H. Boyette, Karline R.L. Janmaat, Vidrige H. Kandza et Daniel Redhead
vol. 10, n° 2, janvier 2024
In hunter-gatherer societies, women’s subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning and children’s social learning but are understudied relative to men’s activities. To understand the structure of women’s foraging networks, we present 230 days of focal-follow data in a BaYaka community....
Jose Aurazo et Farid Gasmi
n° 24-1572, janvier 2024
Digitization of retail payments has facilitated the promotion of financial inclusion recognized to stimulate growth, alleviate poverty, and address gender disparities in the financial sector. This paper closely examines four prominent payment solutions in the developing world, which are M-Pesa in...
Gökçe Gökkoca
n° 24-1567, janvier 2024
This paper investigates whether financial incentives for curbing antibiotic prescriptions are effective and how the design of incentives plays a role in influencing physician behavior. Using prescription-level data from French general practitioners over six years, I provide evidence of the...
Raphaël Franck et Victor Gay
n° 18737, janvier 2024
This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the...
