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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...
Catarina Goulão, Juan Antonio Lacomba, Francisco Lagos et Dan-Olof Rooth
n° 23-1438, mai 2023
Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants are, in fact, discriminated against in the hiring process. However, whether overweight job...
Laurent Miclo
n° 23-1437, mai 2023
We introduce and analyse the almost sure convergence of a new stochastic algorithm for the global minimization of Morse functions on compact Riemannian manifolds. This di˙usion process is called fraudulent because it requires the knowledge of minimal value of the function. Its investigation is...
Persi Diaconis et Laurent Miclo
n° 23-1436, mai 2023
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...
Andrew Rhodes
n° 23-1434, mai 2023
Drip pricing arises when a firm initially advertises a low price, then reveals additional fees as the consumer advances through the purchase process. We give examples of firms that have been pursued for engaging in drip pricing. We summarize theoretical papers on the topic, emphasizing the...
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...
n° 23-1432, mai 2023
Philippe De Donder, Marie-Louise Leroux et François Salanié
mai 2023
Advantageous selection occurs when the agents most eager to buy insurance are also the cheapest ones to insure. Hemenway (1990) links it to differences in risk-aversion among agents, implying different prevention efforts, and finally different riskinesses. We argue that it may also appear when...
Ingela Alger
vol. 378, n° 1876, mai 2023
The 50-year old concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key toolfor theorists to model ultimate drivers of behaviour in social interactions. Fordecades, economists ignored ultimate drivers and used models in which individ-uals choose strategies based on their preferences—a proximate...
