Calendrier du 02 mars 2017
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 02/03/2017 de 16:30 à 17:45
Maison des Sciences Economiques, 6th floor conference room
BOCOLA Luigi ()
*A Model of Financial Crises in Open Economies
Texte intégral
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 02/03/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle 10, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VAN EFFENTERRE Clémentine ( University of Toronto)
Do women want to work more or more regularly? Evidence from a natural experiment
écrit avec Emma Duchini (Warwick University)
This paper studies women's employment decisions when institutions limit their chances of having a regular working schedule. Since 1972, French children in kindergarten and primary school had no school on Wednesday. In 2013, a reform reallocates some classes to Wednesday morning. A descriptive analysis of the pre-reform period suggests that women value flexibility when children demand it. Importantly, we observe that women's decision to stay at home on Wednesday hinges on the interplay between the cost of flexibility associated with their occupation, their bargaining power at work, and their role in the household. Next, we take advantage of the 2013 reform to obtain the first estimate of women's elasticity to the value of flexibility. To measure mothers' response we exploit variation in the implementation of this policy over time and across the age of the youngest child. Our results show that, although mothers do not increase their total weekly hours of work, they do take advantage of the fall in the value of flexibility to close 1/3 of their initial gap in the probability of working on Wednesday with respect to the control group. This response is driven by mothers who are more rewarded for a regular presence at work, but also by those who have a stronger bargaining power.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 02/03/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
salle DSS, bâtiment B, Campus Jourdan, 75014 paris
TOMALA Tristan (HEC Paris)
Competitive Information Design. Work in progress.
écrit avec joint with Frédéric Koessler (PSE) and Marie Laclau (PSE).
Abstract.
We study games between n information designers, each of whom can perform a statistical experiment about a piece of information, the pieces being independent. They aim at persuading a decision-maker to take their most favorable action. For such games with discontinuous payoffs, we show that there exists a (sub-game perfect) equilibrium with either an infinite number of messages or randomization over finite statistical experiments. We characterize the equilibrium distributions of actions for rectangular games in which the optimization problem of the decision-maker is separable across designers. Rectangular games have a (sub-game perfect) equilibrium in pure strategies with a finite number of messages.
Behavior seminar
Du 02/03/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle A2, RDC Bâtiment A, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DOYLE Joseph (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Can Early Intervention Improve Maternal Well-being? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
This study estimates the effect of a targeted early childhood intervention program on global and experienced measures of maternal well-being utilizing a randomized controlled trial design. The primary aim of the intervention is to improve children’s school readiness skills by working directly with parents to improve their knowledge of child development and parenting behavior. One potential externality of the program is well-being benefits for parents given its direct focus on improving parental coping, self-efficacy, and problem solving skills, as well as generating an indirect effect on parental well-being by targeting child developmental problems. Participants from a socio-economically disadvantaged community are randomly assigned during pregnancy to an intensive 5-year home visiting parenting program or a control group. We estimate and compare treatment effects on multiple measures of global and experienced well-being using permutation testing to account for small sample size and a stepdown procedure to account for multiple testing. The intervention has no impact on global well-being as measured by life satisfaction and parenting stress or experienced negative affect using episodic reports derived from the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM). Treatment effects are observed on measures of experienced positive affect derived from the DRM and a measure of mood yesterday. The limited treatment effects suggest that early intervention programs may produce some improvements in experienced positive well-being, but no effects on negative aspects of well-being. Different findings across measures may result as experienced measures of well-being avoid the cognitive biases that impinge upon global assessments.