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An introduction to the special issue on discrimination and diversity 关于歧视和多样性的特刊简介
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107291
Oana Borcan , Laura Gee , Laura Harvey , Boon Han Koh , Ernesto Reuben
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Editorial introduction to the JEBO special issue on immigration, health, and well-being JEBO关于移民、健康和福祉特刊的社论导言
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107359
Joan Madia , Catia Nicodemo , Cristina Tealdi
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A unifying theory of foreign intervention in domestic climate policy 国外干预国内气候政策的统一理论
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107430
Anthony Harding , Juan Moreno-Cruz
We propose a theory of climate-policy foreign intervention in which the climate policy is characterized in a policy externality space spanned by differences between two countries exposure to foreign policy, exposure divergence, and in preferred policy levels, preference asymmetry. Within this framework, we show that strategic behavior such as free-riding and free-driving emerge as equilibrium outcomes of position in this policy externality space, rather than as intrinsic features of a climate policy technology, such as mitigation, adaptation, or geoengineering. We also examine preferences for foreign intervention when a hegemon has three options to intervene in the domestic climate policy of a potential Target: i.) Agreements with Extraction; ii.) Agreements with Rewards; and iii.) Agreements with Sanctions. The hegemon’s choice is determined by the availability of rents that can be extracted from the target country, which is, in turn, a function of the policy externality. This explains why the same technology may require different governance approaches in different contexts and why some climate policies attract foreign intervention while others do not.
我们提出了一个气候政策对外干预理论,其中气候政策的特征在于一个政策外部性空间,该空间由两国对外交政策的暴露差异、暴露分歧和偏好政策水平上的偏好不对称所跨越。在这一框架内,我们表明,搭便车和自由驾驶等战略行为是作为政策外部性空间中位置的均衡结果出现的,而不是作为气候政策技术(如减缓、适应或地球工程)的内在特征出现的。我们还研究了当一个霸主有三种选择来干预潜在目标的国内气候政策时,它对外国干预的偏好:与采掘方的协议;二)。奖励协议;和iii)。制裁协议。霸权国家的选择取决于从目标国家榨取租金的可得性,这反过来又是政策外部性的函数。这就解释了为什么相同的技术在不同的背景下可能需要不同的治理方法,以及为什么一些气候政策吸引外国干预,而另一些却没有。
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Motivated by karma 因果报应
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107441
Lawrence Choo , Zhen Lei , Wei Tang
We conduct an experiment to examine how karmic reasoning—the belief that good deeds lead to favourable outcomes—affects belief formation in unrelated chance events. We motivate our design by observations from the China Family Panel Studies, which show that respondents who donated in the past 12 months are more likely to make risky choices. To investigate this further, we design a controlled laboratory experiment to evaluate the impact of real charitable donations on subjects’ beliefs about winning an even-chance lottery. Our results reveal that beliefs about winning increase with the amount donated, but this effect is significant only among those who voluntarily donated and more sensitive to karmic beliefs. This study underscores the role of karmic reasoning in shaping beliefs, contributing to the broader understanding of wishful thinking and motivated beliefs.
我们进行了一个实验来检验因果推理——相信善行会带来有利的结果——如何影响在不相关的偶然事件中的信念形成。我们的设计灵感来自中国家庭小组研究的观察结果,该研究表明,在过去12个月里捐款的受访者更有可能做出冒险的选择。为了进一步研究这一点,我们设计了一个受控的实验室实验,以评估真实的慈善捐赠对受试者关于赢得机会均等的彩票的信念的影响。我们的研究结果表明,随着捐赠金额的增加,人们对获胜的信念也会增加,但这种影响只在那些自愿捐赠的人和对业力信念更敏感的人身上才会显著。这项研究强调了因果推理在形成信仰中的作用,有助于更广泛地理解一厢情愿的想法和动机信仰。
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Forced experimentation: An analysis of multi-armed bandits with an inconsistent option 强迫实验:具有不一致选择的多武装强盗的分析
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107434
Stanton Hudja , Daniel Woods , J. Braxton Gately
This paper investigates behavior in environments with forced experimentation. We analyze behavior in novel bandit problems where individuals repeatedly choose between an inconsistent option that may randomly be blocked in any given decision and a consistent option that is always available to be implemented. We analyze two environments with forced experimentation: an “Ex-Ante” environment and an “Ex-Post” environment. In the Ex-Ante environment, an individual knows at the start of a decision whether the inconsistent option can be implemented. In the Ex-Post environment, an individual only observes if the inconsistent option can be implemented by trying to implement it. We conduct an experiment where individuals in these two environments are predicted to choose the inconsistent option more often than the consistent option. Contrary to this prediction, we find evidence that subjects choose the consistent option more often. Structural analysis suggests that this result is driven by subjects who exhibit inertia after being forced into the consistent option and subjects who are averse to choosing an inconsistent option. Our results suggest that subjects may avoid inconsistently available options and that the presence of blocking in bandit problems leads to new behavioral factors to consider.
本文研究强迫实验环境下的行为。我们分析了新型土匪问题中的行为,其中个体在任意给定决策中可能被随机阻止的不一致选项和始终可用的一致选项之间反复选择。我们分析了两种强制实验环境:“事前”环境和“事后”环境。在事前环境中,个体在决策开始时就知道不一致的选项是否可以实现。在post - post环境中,个人只能通过尝试实现不一致选项来观察它是否可以实现。我们进行了一个实验,预测在这两种环境中的个体选择不一致的选项比选择一致的选项更频繁。与这一预测相反,我们发现有证据表明,受试者更经常选择一致的选项。结构分析表明,这一结果是由被迫选择一致选项后表现出惰性的受试者和不愿选择不一致选项的受试者驱动的。我们的研究结果表明,受试者可能会避免不一致的可用选项,并且在强盗问题中存在阻塞导致需要考虑新的行为因素。
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A miscalculated risk: Investment choices under exponential growth bias 错误估计的风险:指数增长偏差下的投资选择
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107365
Karna Basu
“Exponential growth bias” – the tendency to underestimate exponential growth – has been shown to affect how much people save and borrow. I develop a simple theoretical framework to show that this bias, through its interaction with individual risk preferences, also affects how people save and borrow. Relatively risk-tolerant consumers will choose inefficiently safe investments, appearing more risk-averse than they are. In contrast, relatively risk-averse consumers will choose inefficiently risky investments, appearing less risk-averse than they are. I present survey data to support this hypothesis. The model introduces a new perspective on some apparent anomalies in intertemporal choice and raises additional considerations for consumer protection and financial literacy programs.
“指数增长偏差”——低估指数增长的倾向——已被证明会影响人们储蓄和借贷的数量。我发展了一个简单的理论框架来表明,这种偏见,通过它与个人风险偏好的相互作用,也会影响人们如何储蓄和借贷。相对风险承受能力较强的消费者会选择效率较低的安全投资,表现得比实际更厌恶风险。相比之下,相对厌恶风险的消费者会选择低效率的风险投资,看起来不那么厌恶风险。我提供调查数据来支持这一假设。该模型引入了对跨期选择中一些明显异常现象的新视角,并提出了对消费者保护和金融扫盲计划的额外考虑。
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Mendicant orders and the foundations of impersonal exchange 乞讨者的命令和非个人交换的基础
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107417
Benito Arruñada , Lucas López-Manuel
We argue that the main Mendicant Orders of the Late Middle Ages—Dominican and Franciscan—were instrumental in shaping key cultural and institutional traits of impersonal exchange by updating both moral codes and religious practice. As one of the three pillars of impersonal exchange—alongside state capacity and merchant institutions—religiously infused moral cognition provides the focus of our analysis. In line with their specializations, we document opposing effects of the two Orders on individualism, impersonal prosociality, and impartial enforcement: positive from exposure to the Dominicans and negative from exposure to the Franciscans. These effects stem from deep moral changes tied to the emotions of guilt, shame, and compassion, with knowledge and education accounting for historical persistence. We assess these differences across multiple datasets, analytical levels, and historical contexts—always focusing on the differential effects of the two Orders. Our findings invite a reassessment of the Church’s role in cultural and institutional development and underscore the divergent effects of its branches and doctrines.
我们认为,中世纪晚期的主要修道会——多明尼加和方济各会——通过更新道德规范和宗教实践,在塑造非个人交流的关键文化和制度特征方面发挥了重要作用。作为非个人交换的三大支柱之一,与国家能力和商业制度并列,宗教注入的道德认知提供了我们分析的重点。根据他们的专业,我们记录了两种修会对个人主义、非个人亲社会和公正执法的相反影响:多明尼加会的正面影响和方济各会的负面影响。这些影响源于深刻的道德变化,这些变化与内疚、羞耻和同情的情绪有关,而知识和教育则是历史持续存在的原因。我们在多个数据集、分析水平和历史背景下评估这些差异,始终关注两个秩序的差异影响。我们的研究结果要求重新评估教会在文化和制度发展中的作用,并强调其分支和教义的不同影响。
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Balancing health and sustainability: Optimizing investments in organic vs. conventional agriculture through pesticide reduction 平衡健康和可持续性:通过减少农药来优化有机农业与传统农业的投资
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107442
Luca Bargna , Davide La Torre , Rosario Maggistro , Benjamin Montmartin
This paper investigates the trade-offs between organic and conventional farming methods, focusing on their respective impacts on health, environmental sustainability, and economic outcomes. Our contributions are twofold. First, we develop a theoretical model based on an optimal control problem to examine the dynamic allocation of investments between organic and conventional agriculture. This model incorporates critical social factors, including the environmental and health costs associated with pesticide use in conventional farming, as well as the long-term social benefits of organic practices. Second, we estimate the key parameters of the model using French data on pesticide levels in groundwater. This enables us to compute and analyze the optimal policy proposed by the model and derive implications for reallocating investments towards organic farming. The optimal policy emphasizes the necessity of a tailored approach across both spatial and time dimensions. Along the spatial dimension, areas with high pesticide concentrations should be prioritized, calling for place-based rather than place-neutral policies. Along the temporal dimension, earlier intervention strategies are warranted when social costs related to pesticide exposure are high or when the weight assigned to the environmental conditions of future generations is low. Overall, the optimal policy results in a more balanced distribution of pesticides across the territory.
本文调查了有机和传统耕作方法之间的权衡,重点关注它们各自对健康、环境可持续性和经济成果的影响。我们的贡献是双重的。首先,我们建立了一个基于最优控制问题的理论模型来研究有机农业和传统农业之间的投资动态分配。这一模式纳入了关键的社会因素,包括与传统农业中使用农药有关的环境和健康成本,以及有机做法的长期社会效益。其次,我们使用法国地下水中农药水平的数据估计模型的关键参数。这使我们能够计算和分析模型提出的最优政策,并得出对有机农业重新分配投资的含义。最优政策强调在空间和时间两个维度上采取量身定制的方法的必要性。在空间维度上,应优先考虑农药浓度高的地区,要求采取基于地点而不是中立的政策。在时间维度上,当与农药接触有关的社会成本较高或后代的环境条件权重较低时,早期干预策略是有必要的。总体而言,最优政策的结果是农药在全港的分布更为均衡。
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Bonuses and loss aversion 奖金和损失厌恶
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107438
Víctor González-Jiménez , Patricio S. Dalton , Charles N. Noussair
To motivate workers, organizations often offer monetary bonuses for meeting production goals. We develop a theoretical framework that predicts that when workers set production goals themselves and are sufficiently loss averse, bonuses lead to conservative goal setting, which worsens performance. Without a bonus, a loss-averse worker sets an ambitious goal to motivate herself through the aversion to falling short of the target. Tying a bonus to goal achievement crowds out this intrinsic motivation by raising the stakes of failure, leading to more cautious goals and lower performance. Empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment supports the predictions of our model. Our findings underscore the limits of bonuses when workers are loss averse.
为了激励员工,企业经常为达到生产目标的员工提供金钱奖励。我们开发了一个理论框架,预测当工人自己设定生产目标并且足够厌恶损失时,奖金会导致保守的目标设定,从而恶化绩效。如果没有奖金,一个厌恶损失的员工会设定一个雄心勃勃的目标,通过对达不到目标的厌恶来激励自己。将奖金与目标达成捆绑在一起,会增加失败的风险,从而排挤这种内在动机,导致更谨慎的目标和更低的表现。来自实验室实验的经验证据支持我们模型的预测。我们的发现强调了当员工厌恶损失时,奖金的局限性。
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Does allocative fairness matter? experimental evidence from India 分配公平重要吗?来自印度的实验证据
IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107436
Rohit Jindal
Fairness is impartial selection when allocating scarce goods or resources. Previous studies indicate that people consider auctions and random allocations less fair than alternate mechanisms. However, these studies are based on survey research in industrialized countries. It is unclear if fairness preferences are generalizable or if these preferences lead to a change in peoples’ behavior. This paper addresses these gaps through two field studies in rural India. In the first study, 94 of 206 subjects received contracts to collect tree leaves in return for INR100 each. Participants were selected through four different allocation mechanisms - random allocation, deliberation among subjects, selection by criteria, and lowest bids in auctions. Participants selected through deliberation and criteria-based allocations collect significantly more leaves than those selected through auctions or random allocations. In the second study, a separate set of 124 subjects compared the fairness of these four allocation mechanisms, yielding 744 observations. Deliberation and criteria are ranked fairer than auctions or random allocations. The comparisons are robust to transitivity with an 86.3 percent coefficient of consistency. The close matching between experimental and survey results indicates that people provide significantly more effort when selected through allocation mechanisms that are considered fair. The study results also indicate how auctions are not always efficient.
公平是分配稀缺物品或资源时的公正选择。先前的研究表明,人们认为拍卖和随机分配不如其他机制公平。然而,这些研究是基于工业化国家的调查研究。目前尚不清楚公平偏好是否具有普遍性,或者这些偏好是否会导致人们行为的改变。本文通过在印度农村的两个实地研究来解决这些差距。在第一项研究中,206名受试者中有94人获得了收集树叶的合同,每人获得100卢比的报酬。参与者是通过四种不同的分配机制来选择的——随机分配、对象审议、标准选择和拍卖中的最低出价。通过审议和标准分配选择的参与者比通过拍卖或随机分配选择的参与者收集到更多的叶子。在第二项研究中,一组单独的124名受试者比较了这四种分配机制的公平性,产生了744个观察结果。审议和标准比拍卖或随机分配更公平。这些比较对传递性具有86.3%的一致性系数。实验结果和调查结果之间的密切匹配表明,当人们通过被认为是公平的分配机制选择时,他们会付出更多的努力。研究结果还表明,拍卖并不总是有效的。
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