Abstract: We argue that the incentive structure of all individual and coordinated measures across countries to contain the corona-pandemic is that of a weakest-link public good game. We discuss a selection of theoretical and experimental key results of weakest-link games and interpret them in the light of the corona-pandemic. First, we highlight that experimental evidence does not support the…
August 2020
Abstract. This paper analyses the influence of a Brazilian institution delivering the corresponding author on its scientific citation impact, distinguishing between its collaborative papers with foreign institutions and those resulting from national collaboration. We retrieved from Scopus database a total of 607,454 Brazilian documents for all 443 Brazilian institutions with at least 100…
July 2020
Abstract
Objective
Scrutinize how the three main sources of knowledge inequalities, namely, gender, age, and education, relate to the content, format, and object of the survey items used to measure knowledge
Methods
Using a pooled data set encompassing 106 postelection surveys in 47 countries from the CSES, we perform analyses by…
June 2020
Resumen. En recientes modelos económicos, un optimista (no Bayesiano) es aquel agente cuyas creencias y expectativas están frecuentemente «tintadas de rosa», dado que sus a prioris y la evidencia objetivamente disponible implicarían una predicción estadística menos positiva. Este artículo repasa la literatura empírica sobre optimismo con vistas a evaluar la relevancia empírica de tales modelos.…
ABSTRACT: Migrants’ healthcare entitlement represents a conflictive issue in the political battlefield, with research pointing towards the determinant role of party politics in determining policy outputs. Addressing the 2012 healthcare reform and 2018 counter-reform adopted in Spain by a right-wing and left-wing government respectively and drawing on qualitative analysis of parties’ discourses…
Abstract. Author co-citation analysis (ACA) is a commonly used method to map knowledge domains and depict scientific intellectual structures. Although all authors’ information has been considered in previous studies, ACA does not distinguish credits of different collaborators within a team. Authors’ sequence in a publication illustrates their contributions and specialty of research, which offers…
Abstract. The geographies of differences and resistances consist of experiences, processes, and visions of people in a distinctive space, expressed through everyday actions and behaviors to stay in a place. The distinctive spaces analyzed represent depopulated rural areas and urban ruralities, namely, (i) rural spaces with historical population losses, (ii) processes of socioeconomic decline, and…
Abstract. A large number of observational and experimental studies have explored the determinants of individual preferences for redistribution. In general, inequalities are more likely to be accepted by people of higher socioeconomic status, in richer societies and when inequalities are perceived as justifiable owing to differences in productivity. Almas et al. (2019) show that in a relatively…
May 2020
Lars Hein, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Carl Obst, Bram Edens, Sjoerd Schenau, Gem Castillo, Francois Soulard, Claire Brown, Amanda Driver, Michael Bordt, Anton Steurer, Rocky Harris, Alejandro Caparrós. Progress in natural capital accounting for ecosystems. Available at: http://science.sciencemag.org/ on February 3, 2020
Abstract. Reversing the ongoing…
February 2020
Alejandro Caparrós, Michael Finus (2020). Public Good Agreements under the Weakest-link Technology. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2020:1-28.
Abstract. We analyze the formation of public good agreements under the weakest-link technology. Coordination of and cooperation on migration policies, money laundering measures and biodiversity conservation e§orts are prime examples of this…