Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. A pressing issue is how to improve the effectiveness of conservation with limited information and resources available. We develop a Bayes-adaptive POMDP framework to optimize the learning and management of threatened species...

As the impacts of climate change and various disturbances on forest ecosystem have become serious, management and research efforts to improve forest biodiversity in response to the changing environment are needed. Biodiversity is associated with functional protection, adaptation to external...

Information about the consequences of our consumption choices can be unwelcome, and people sometimes avoid it. We investigate a situation where one person possesses information that is inconvenient for another, and study why and when they decide to transmit that information. We introduce a...