Calendrier du 06 novembre 2019
Development Economics Seminar
Du 06/11/2019 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
JOHN Anett (CREST&ENSAE)
Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?
écrit avec Johannes Haushofer and Kate Orkin
Behavioral constraints may explain part of low demand for preventive health products. We test the effects of two light-touch psychological interventions on water chlorination and related health and economic outcomes using a randomized controlled trial among 3750 women in rural Kenya. One intervention encourages participants to visualize alternative realizations of the future; one builds participants' ability to make concrete plans to achieve goals. Both interventions include information on health benefits of chlorination. After twelve weeks, both interventions increase the share of households who chlorinate drinking water and reduce child diarrhea episodes. Analysis of mechanisms suggests both interventions increase self-efficacy – beliefs about one's ability to achieve desired outcomes – as well as the salience of chlorination. They do not differentially affect beliefs and knowledge about chlorination (compared to a group who receive only information), nor affect lab measures of time preferences or planning ability. Results suggest simple psychological interventions can increase use of preventive health technologies.
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Economic History Seminar
Du 06/11/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan 48 BD Jourdan 75014 Paris
MAGGOR Noam (IEA Paris)
The United States as a Developing Nation: The Political Origins of Modern Capitalism in America.
écrit avec Dr. Stefan Link (Dartmouth)
It has recently been suggested that the economic departure of the United States after the Civil War marked a “Second Great Divergence.” Compared to the “First,” the rise of Britain during the Industrial Revolution, this Second Great Divergence us curiously little understood: because the U.S. remains the template for modernization narratives, its trajectory is often accepted as preordained than interrogated as an unlikely historical outcome. How in fact did the U.S. redefine its position in the world economy, transforming from a cotton-exporting slave republic to a hegemonic industrial giant? The most promising avenue of inquiry, we suggest, lies in asking how American political institutions configured what should properly be called an American Developmental State. Such a perspective opens up a broad comparative research agenda that provincializes the United States from the perspective of development experiences elsewhere.