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Jorge Peña, Aviad Heifetz et Georg Nöldeke
vol. 154, février 2024, p. 10–23
Cooperation usually becomes harder to sustain as groups become larger because incentives to shirk increase with the number of potential contributors to collective action. But is this always the case? Here we study a binary-action cooperative dilemma where a public good is provided as long as not...
Sean Kates et Sebastian Thieme
n° 24-159, février 2024
Why do candidates rely on fundraising event attendees to finance their campaigns? De-spite public concerns around this mode of donation, fundraising events have received little scholarly attention. We use a source of novel data – campaign finance disclosures in four U.S. states which indicate event-...
Stefan Ambec et Yuting Yang
vol. 76, n° 101422, février 2024
Trade reduces the effectiveness of climate policies such as carbon pricing when domestic products are replaced by more carbon-intensive imports. We investigate the impact of unilateral carbon pricing on electricity generation in a country open to trade through interconnection lines. We characterize...
Marc Arnaudon, Laurent Miclo et Koléhè Coulibaly-Pasquier
vol. 11, février 2024, p. 473–522
Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen et Arianna Ornaghi
vol. 16, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 314–350
Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and...
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...
Carlos Navarrete, Mariana Macedo, Rachael Colley, Jingling Zhang, Nicole Ferrada, Maria Eduarda Mello, Rodrigo Lira, Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Umberto Grandi, Jérôme Lang et César Hidalgo
vol. 8, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 137–148
Digital technologies can augment civic participation by facilitating the expression of detailed political preferences. Yet, digital participation efforts often rely on methods optimized for elections involving a few candidates. Here we present data collected in an online experiment where...
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...
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...
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer et Firouz Gahvari
vol. 126, n° 1, janvier 2024, p. 98–126
We study optimal income taxation in a two-group framework where the private cost of misreporting income is positively correlated with productivity. We show that, if high-wage types always reveal their income truthfully, letting low-wage types cheat would lead to Pareto-superior outcomes regardless...
