Submissions from 2024
Simulating the Global Effect of Transformative AI: Growth, Welfare, Economic Power, and Policy Responses, Seth Gordon Benzell and Victor Yifan Ye
Ordinaries 14: Biological Economics, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan
Polarization in Multidisciplinary Perspective, Eugen Dimant and Erik O. Kimbrough
Inflation's Historical Presidential Election Impact, Jim Doti and Tom Campbell
On the Stability of Norms and Norm-following Propensity: A Cross-cultural Panel Study with Adolescents, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin L. Krupka, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Abhijit Ramalingam, Sharon Sánchez‑Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theoretical Challenges, Ryan Nichols, Mathieu Charbonneau, Azita Chellappoo, Taylor Davis, Miriam Haidle, Erik O. Kimbrough, Henrike Moll, Richard Moore, Thom Scott-Phillips, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Jose Segovia-Martin
Measuring Norm Pluralism and Perceived Polarization in US Politics, Folca Panizza, Eugen Dimant, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Alexander Vostroknutov
Course-Skill Atlas: A National Longitudinal Dataset of Skills Taught in U.S. Higher Education Curricula, Alireza Javadian Sabet, Sarah H. Bana, Renzhe Yu, and Morgan R. Frank
Submissions from 2023
Evaluating Antitrust Remedies for Platform Monopolies: The Case of Facebook, Seth G. Benzell and Felix B. Chang
Martha C. Nussbaum, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, Terence C. Burnham
Connecting Higher Education to Workplace Activities and Earnings, Hung Chau, Sarah H. Bana, Baptiste Bouvier, and Morgan R. Frank
The Impact of Vaccinations and Chronic Disease on COVID Death Rates, James L. Doti
God Games: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Superstition, and Cooperation, Aidin Hajikhameneh and Laurence R. Iannaccone
Selection Homophily and Peer Influence for Adolescents’ Smoking and Vaping Norms and Outcomes in High and Middle-Income Settings, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon Sánchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Erik O. Kimbrough, Christopher Tate, Shannon C. Montgomery, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin L. Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter
Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting, Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Eline A. de Rooij
Ecosystem-level Analysis of Deployed Machine Learning Reveals Homogeneous Outcomes, Connor Toups, Rishi Bommasani, Kathleen A. Creel, Sarah H. Bana, Dan Jurafsky, and Percy Liang
Submissions from 2022
Optimal Patent Licensing—Two or Three-Part Tariff, Swapnendu Banerjee, Arijit Mukherjee, and Sougata Poddar
How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm, Seth G. Benzell, Jonathan Hersh, and Marshall Van Alstyne
Ordinaries 10, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan
Ordinaries 9: How to Write a Biological Economics Article, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan
Explainable AI Helps Bridge the AI Skills Gap: Evidence from a Large Bank, Selina Carter and Jonathan Hersh
How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics, Erik Groenendyk, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Mark Pickup
Car Accidents, Smartphone Adoption and 3G Coverage, Jonathan Hersh, Bree J. Lang, and Matthew Lang
The Symbolic Work of Prices, Akash Miharia, Jan Osborn, and Bart J. Wilson
Hybrid U-Net: Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Satellite Images to Detect War Destruction, Shima Nabiee, Matthew Harding, Jonathan Hersh, and Nader Bagherzadeh
The Personality and Cognitive Traits Associated with Adolescents’ Sensitivity to Social Norms, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Shannon C. Montgomery, Huiyu Zhou, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Erik Kimbrough, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter
Internet Governance Through Site Shutdowns: The Impact of Shutting Down Two Major Commercial Sex Advertising Sites, Helen Shuxuan Zeng, Brett Danaher, and Michael D. Smith
Submissions from 2021
The Efficiency of U.S. Public Space Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918, Seth G. Benzell and Kevin Cooke
The Landscape of Innovation in Bacteria, Battleships, and Beyond, Terence C. Burnham and Michael Travisano
Benefit-Cost Analysis of COVID-19 Policy Intervention at the State and National Level, James L. Doti
Examining the Impact of Socioeconomic Variables on COVID-19 Death Rates at the State Level, James L. Doti
The Impact of Vaccinations on COVID-19 Case Rates at the State Level, James L. Doti
The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment, Elira Karaja and Jared Rubin
Infanticide and Human Self Domestication, Erik O. Kimbrough, Gordon M. Myers, and Arthur J. Robson
Monitoring War Destruction from Space Using Machine Learning, Hannes Mueller, Andre Groeger, Jonathan Hersh, Andrea Matranga, and Joan Serrat
Submissions from 2020
Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation, Sascha O. Becker, Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff, and Jared Rubin
Recent Insights on the Role of Religion in Economic History, Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann
Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides
Understanding and Addressing the Modern Productivity Paradox, Erik Brynjolfsson, Seth Benzell, and Daniel Rock
The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior, Brett Danaher, Jonathan Hersh, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang
A Model to Explain Statewide Differences in COVID-19 Death Rates, James L. Doti
Opportunity Cost, Inattention and the Bidder's Curse, David J. Freeman, Erik O. Kimbrough, and J. Philipp Reiss
Open Data for Algorithms: Mapping Poverty in Belize Using Open Satellite Derived Features and Machine Learning, Jonathan Hersh, Ryan Engstrom, and Michael Mann
Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19, David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, Mohammad Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, and Sinan Aral
MECHANISMS Study: Using Game Theory to Assess the Effects of Social Norms and Social Networks on Adolescent Smoking in Schools—Study Protocol, Ruth F. Hunter, Felipe Montes, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sanchez-Franco, Shannon C. Montgomery, Joaquín Jaramillo, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Olga L. Sarmiento, and Frank Kee
Confirmatory Factor Analysis Comparing Incentivized Experiments With Self‑Report Methods to Elicit Adolescent Smoking and Vaping Social Norms, Jennifer M. Murray, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Abhijit Ramalingam, Rajnish Kumar, Joanna McHugh Power, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter
Technology Transfer in Spatial Competition when Licensees are Asymmetric, Sougata Poddar, Swapnendu Banerjee, and Monalisa Ghosh
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Religion, Jared Rubin
Submissions from 2019
Kinship, Fractionalization and Corruption, Mahsa Akbari, Duman Bahrami-Rad, and Erik O. Kimbrough
The Impact of Early International Digital Release of Films on U.S. Box Office Revenues, Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Xiaoying Tu
Review of Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America, Lynne Doti
Spanish California Missions: An Economic Success, Lynne Doti
Technology Licensing and Innovation – A Correction on Two-Part Tariff Analysis, Yuanzhu Lu, Swapnendu Banerjee, and Sougata Poddar
Limiting End-user Piracy | The Role of Private and Public Anti-Piracy Measure, Yuanzhu Lu and Sougata Poddar
Differences in Tsimane Children’s Growth Outcomes and Associated Determinants as Estimated by WHO Standards vs. Within-Population References, Melanie Martin, Aaron Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven
Identity and the Self-Reinforcing Effects of Norm Compliance, Mark A. Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Eline A. Rooij
Adam Smith, Scientist and Evolutionist: Part 1, Vernon Smith
Adam Smith, Scientist and Evolutionist: Part 2, Vernon Smith
Submissions from 2018
Trends and Disparities in Leave Use Under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data, Sarah H. Bana, Kelly Bedard, and Maya Rossin-Slater
'To Sell or Not to Sell': Licensing Versus Selling by an Outside Innovator, Swapnendu Banerjee and Sougata Poddar
Cooler Heads Prevail: An Experimental Study on the “Cooling” Effect of the Strategy Method on Agent Resentment, Jing L. Davis
Slow-Fast Analysis of a Multi-Group Asset Flow Model with Implications for the Dynamics of Wealth, Mark DeSantis and David Swigon
Review of Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America, Lynne P. Doti
Review of Rulers, Religion, & Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not, Lynne P. Doti
Preference Conformism: an Experiment, Enrique Fatas, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, and David Rojo Arjona
Reorganization of Failing Financial Firms: A Capital Structure Solution, Steven Gjerstad
Reorganization of Failing Financial Firms: A Capital Structure Solution, Steven Gjerstad
Big Data in Economics, Matthew Harding and Jonathan Hersh
Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange, Hillard Kaplan, Eric Schniter, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson
Testing the Boundaries of the Double Auction: The Effects of Complete Information and Market Power, Erik O. Kimbrough
A Portable Method of Eliciting Respect for Social Norms, Erik O. Kimbrough and Alexander Vostroknutov
Review of Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective, Jared Rubin
Centrality and Cooperation in Networks, Boris van Leeuwen, Abhijit Ramalingam, David Rojo Arjona, and Arthur Schram
Land Assembly without Eminent Domain: Laboratory Experiments of Two Tax Mechanisms, Abel Winn, Matthew W. McCarter, and Mark DeSantis
Submissions from 2017
Poverty Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on High and Medium Resolution Satellite Images, With an Application in Mexico, Boris Babenko, Jonathan Hersh, David Newhouse, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Tom Swartz
Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications, Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang
A Reexamination of “The Hidden Return to Incentives”, Jing Davis, Steven Schwartz, and Richard Young
Poverty from Space: Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-Being, Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Hersh, and David Newhouse
Individualism, Collectivism, and Trade, Aidin Hajikhameneh and Erik O. Kimbrough
Coordination When There Are Restricted and Unrestricted Options, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, David Rojo Arjona, and Robert Sugden
Social Information "Nudges": an Experiment with Multiple Group References, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam, and David Rojo Arjona
Impact of Network Externality on End-User Piracy: Revisited, Sougata Poddar and Yuanzhu Lu
Submissions from 2016
Information Effects in Uniform Price Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions, Joy A. Buchanan, Steven Gjerstad, and David Porter
Does Price Efficiency Increase with Trading Volume? Evidence of Nonlinearity and Power Laws in ETFs, Gunduz Caginalp and Mark DeSantis
Creativity and Cognitive Skills among Millennials: Thinking Too Much and Creating Too Little, Brice Corgnet, Antonio M. Espín, and Roberto Hernán-González
Multiple Openings and Competitiveness of Forward Markets: Experimental Evidence, José Luis Ferreira, Praveen Kujal, and Stephen Rassenti
Economic Modeling: Why the Standard Model Survives Bad Performance, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith
From Hard Money to Branch Banking California Banking in the Gold Rush Economy, Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti
John Nash: A Personal Remembrance (Introduction to the John Forbes Nash Jr. Memorial Special Issue), Vernon Smith
The Fair and Impartial Spectator, Vernon L. Smith
Seller Beware: Supply and Demand Reduction and Price Manipulation in Multiple-Unit Uniform Price Auctions, Abel Winn, Michael Parente, and David Porter
Submissions from 2015
Building a Better Model: Variable Selection to Predict Poverty in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Marium Afzal, Jonathan Hersh, and David Newhouse
Robust Determinants of Bilateral Trade, Marianne Baxter and Jonathan Hersh
The Cognitive Basis of Social Behavior: Cognitive Reflection Overrides Antisocial but Not Always Prosocial Motives, Brice Corgnet, Antonio M. Espín, and Roberto Hernán-González
Cognitive Reflection and the Diligent Worker: An Experimental Study of Millennials, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, and Ricardo Mateo
Firing Threats: Incentive Effects and Impression Management, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hérnan-Gonzalez, and Stephen J. Rassenti