Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Predictably competitive? What faces can tell us about competitive behavior 

      Balafoutas, L; Fornwagner, H; Grosskopf, B (Elsevier, 18 October 2023)
      Competition for limited resources is ubiquitous in social and economic life and has sparked a large body of research on the determinants of competitive behavior. While we know a lot about the role of contextual factors ...

    • Pricing rules for PES auctions: evidence from a natural experiment 

      Balmford, B; Collins, J; Day, B; et al. (Elsevier, 9 October 2023)
      Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes increasingly use auctions to target funds to low-cost providers, aiming to increase value-for-money. To date, PES auctions have most often employed “Pay-as-Bid” (PaB) pricing, ...

    • Can personalized digital counseling improve consumer search for modern contraceptive methods? 

      Athey, S; Bergstrom, K; Hadad, V; et al. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 6 October 2023)
      This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of a personalized digital counseling intervention addressing informational constraints and choice architecture, cross-randomized with discounts for long-acting reversible ...

    • Orphanhood and Child Development: Evidence From India 

      Garcia-Brazales, J (Duke University Press, 1 April 2023)
      This article provides the first systematic study of the short- and long-run effects of parental death on the cognitive, noncognitive (locus of control), and physical development of Indian children. Exploiting rich longitudinal ...

    • Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making 

      Chang, E; Chilazi, S; Elfer, J; et al. (Harvard Business Publishing, 1 September 2023)
      Most people believe in promoting DEI in the workplace. But implicit and unconscious biases — not to mention the constant juggling of priorities required at work — can lead to inequitable decision-making. In this article, ...