Calendrier du 06 octobre 2022
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 06/10/2022 de 16:00 à 17:15
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-14
BOYER Marcel (Université de Montréal)
The taxation of couples
écrit avec Felix Bierbrauer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar
This paper studies the tax treatment of singles and couples. We use two different approaches. One is tailored to the analysis of systems that stick to the principle that the tax base for couples is the sum of their incomes. One is tailored to the analysis of reforms towards individual taxation. We study the US federal income tax since the 1960s through the lens of this framework. We find that, for the recent past, realizing efficiency gains requires to lower marginal tax rates for secondary earners. We also find that revenue-neutral reforms towards individual taxation are in the interest of couples with high secondary earnings while couples with low secondary earnings are worse off. The support for such a reform recently passed the majority threshold. It is rejected, however, by a Rawlsian social welfare function. Thus, there is a tension between Rawlsian and Feminist notions of social welfare.
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 06/10/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R2-01
DURANTE Ruben (UPF)
Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media
écrit avec Elliott Ash, Mariia Grebenshchikova and Carlo Schwarz
We propose and validate a new method to measure gender and ethnic stereotypes in news
reports, using computer vision tools to assess the gender, race and ethnicity of individuals
depicted in article images. Applying this approach to 700,000 web articles published in the New
York Times and Fox News between 2000 and 2020, we find that males and whites are
overrepresented relative to their population share, while women and Hispanics are
underrepresented. Relating images to text, we find that news content perpetuates common
stereotypes such as associating Blacks and Hispanics with low-skill jobs, crime, and poverty, and
Asians with high-skill jobs and science. Analyzing news coverage of specific jobs, we show that
racial stereotypes hold even after controlling for the actual share of a group in a given occupation.
Finally, we document that group representation in the news is influenced by the gender and ethnic
identity of authors and editors.
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TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 06/10/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-14, Campus Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LACLAU Marie (HEC)
Communication on networks and strong reliability (joint with L. Renou and X. Venel)
We consider sender-receiver games, where the sender and the receiver are two distant nodes on a communication network. We show that if the network has two disjoint paths of communication between the sender and the receiver, then we can replicate not only all equilibrium outcomes of the direct communication game (i.e., when the sender and the receiver communicate directly with each other), but also of the mediated game (i.e., when the sender and the receiver communicate with the help of a mediator).