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Kinga Makovi, Anahit Sargsyan, Wendi Li, Jean-François Bonnefon et Tahal Rahwan
n° 3108, mai 2023
With the progress of artificial intelligence and the emergence of global online communities, humans and machines are increasingly participating in mixed collectives in which they can help or hinder each other. Human societies have had thousands of years to consolidate the social norms that promote...
Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stéphane Bonhomme et Jack Light
n° 23-1435, mai 2023
In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2005-2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. We build on the nonlinear quantile framework introduced in Arellano, Blundell and Bonhomme (2017). Our focus is on the...
Persi Diaconis et Laurent Miclo
n° 23-1436, mai 2023
Sean Ennis, Marc Ivaldi et Vicente Lagos
vol. 66, n° 2, mai 2023
This paper examines the impact of most favored nation (MFN) clauses on retail prices, taking advantage of two natural experiments that changed vertical contracting between hotels and major digital platforms. The broad E.U. intervention narrowed the breadth of “price parity” obligations between...
Claire Borsenberger, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur et Estelle Malavolti
n° 23-1433, mai 2023
Because of population aging, dependency represents a major societal challenge. While some of the issues including insurance design and the provision of Long-Term-Care have recently been studied and debated, the potential role of prevention has been mostly neglected. To fill this gap the World...
Jonathan Stieglitz, Yoann Buoro, Bret A. Beheim, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven
vol. 290, n° 1998, mai 2023
Musculoskeletal pain is the most debilitating human health condition. Neurophysiological pain mechanisms are highly conserved and promote somatic maintenance and learning to avoid future harm. However, some chronic pain might be more common owing to mismatches between modern lifestyles and traits...
Milo Bianchi et Marie Brière
sous la direction de Agostino Capponi et Charles-Albert Lehalle, Cambridge University Press, mai 2023
Koen Jochmans
vol. 38, n° 3, mai 2023, p. 321–333
Identification of peer effects is complicated by the fact that the individuals under study may self-select their peers. Random assignment to peer groups has proven useful to sidestep such a concern. In the absence of a formal randomization mechanism it needs to be argued that assignment is `as good...
Piret Avila et Charles Mullon
vol. 378, n° 1876, mai 2023
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach have made invaluable contributions to understanding how gradual evolution leads to adaptation when individuals interact. Here, we review some of the basic tools that have come out of these contributions to model the evolution of...
Henrik Andersson et Benjamin Ouvrard
n° 23-1439, mai 2023
Using a discrete choice experiment this study examines whether different types of priming may influence the respondents’ answers when choosing between different policies aimed at reducing the mortality risk due to ambient air pollution. We focus on two types of priming: (i) two versions of an oath...
