When Platforms Favor Their Own Services, Who Loses?
Leonardo Madio, Fabio M. Manenti and Massimo Motta show that requiring equal access to a platform’s own service and its rivals raises welfare and the platform’s own profits
Topic Archive: Public Policy
Unequal Lives, Unequal Benefits: Life Expectancy and Social Security Rules
Javier Fernández-Blanco and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos evaluate the welfare implications of retirement benefits that ignore predictable differences in life expectancy.
Designing Gender-Balanced Evaluation Committees with AI
J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz, Miguel Diaz Salazar and Juan José Ganuza show how AI-designed evaluation committees address gender gaps in Economics, emphasizing topic alignment over demographic quotas.
Born Too Soon? The Educational Costs of Early Elective Deliveries
Libertad González and Parijat Maitra show that even modest shifts in birth timing can have lasting consequences for children’s health and school performance.
