Calendrier du 06 juin 2024
Du 06/06/2024 de 16:00 à 17:15
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
BILAL Adrien (Harvard)
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Travail et économie publique externe
Du 06/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R2-21
PIIL DAMM Anna (Aarhus University)
Co-Ethnic Neighbors and Assimilation
écrit avec Ahmad Hassani,Trine Skriver Høholt Jensen and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Economic theory predicts that a common language and culture facilitate social
interaction. The value of assimilation is larger for an individual from a small minority than for one
from a large minority. We test the theory and confirm it by exploiting a natural experiment in
Denmark between 2004 and 2015, when refugee immigrants were assigned to neighborhoods
quasi-randomly and language training was a condition for receiving social assistance. The assigned
share of co-language neighbors reduces the probability of having completed a language course four
years since arrival, irrespective of gender and skills. While the share of neighbors who speak their
native tongue has little impact on the economic success of men, it increases women’s fertility and
reduces their employment probability, earnings, and likelihood of working in communication-
intensive jobs. Moreover, while favorable local labor market conditions improve individual labor
market outcomes, they slow down the language course progression of men. Our results support the
economic theory and have important implications for immigration and integration policies.
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TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 06/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1-14
ELMSAUHER Béla (PSE)
Level 0 specification in 3x3 games: an experiment
One regular critic of the level-k model is the level 0 specification, which is often chosen arbitrarily. In this experiment, I present multiple 3x3 games (2 players having 3 possible strategies) to understand what is the most realistic level 0 specification. The most commonly used level 0 specification is the uniform one (i.e. the level 0 plays randomly) and it can be compared to a maxmax level 0 (i.e. the behavior with the highest potential) and to a maxmin level 0. In my experiment these level 0 specifications are also compared to a cooperation strategy. In a pilot session with 62 participants, I found that subjects played quite heterogeneously with the cooperation strategy being played the most often
PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 06/06/2024 de 12:30 à 14:00
Science Po
OUSS Aurélie (UPenn)
Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door
écrit avec joint with John Eric Humphries, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan Stevenson, and Winnie van Dijk
Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who are recently convicted but not sentenced to prison or jail. We develop an empirical framework for studying the consequences of noncarceral conviction by extending the binary-treatment judge IV framework to settings with multiple treatments. We outline assumptions under which widely-used 2SLS regressions recover margin-specific treatment effects, relate these assumptions to models of judge decision-making, and derive an expression that provides intuition about the direction and magnitude of asymptotic bias when they are not met. Under the identifying assumptions, we find that noncarceral conviction (relative to dismissal) leads to a large and long-lasting increase in recidivism for felony defendants in Virginia. In contrast, we find that incarceration relative to noncarceral conviction leads to a short-run reduction in recidivism, consistent with incapacitation. %We argue that, while it is unlikely that the assumptions on judge decision-making hold exactly in our data, their violation is unlikely to overturn our qualitative findings regarding the effect of conviction. We argue that failure of the assumptions restricting judge decision making is unlikely to change our qualitative findings regarding the effect of conviction. Lastly, we introduce an alternative empirical strategy, and find that it yields similar estimates. Collectively, our results suggest that noncarceral felony conviction is an important and potentially overlooked driver of recidivism.
Behavior Working Group
Du 06/06/2024 de 10:00 à 11:00
R1.09
GALLEGATI Giacomo (PSE)
GALLEGATI Giacomo (PSE)
Don’t judge the paper by its cover
Biases in the peer review process can result in disparities in how scholarly work is assessed, unfairly affecting the careers and opportunities of researchers. In this paper, we conduct a randomised field experiment to explore the role of affiliation biases in the peer review process of an early career workshop in economics. When affiliation is displayed, we find significant increases in paper grades and the probability of being accepted to the conference