Calendrier du 07 décembre 2021
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 07/12/2021 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R1-15, Campus Jourdan
GETHIN Amory (PSE)
Government redistribution and the growth elasticity of poverty: Evidence from South Africa, 1993-2019
Development Economics Seminar
Du 07/12/2021 de 16:30 à 17:45
On line
BATISTA Catia (Nova School of Business and Economics.)
Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from the Gambia?
écrit avec joint with Tijan Bah, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for the migrants and a key policy concern. We conducted a cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from 391 settlements in The Gambia to test three different approaches designed to reduce risky, irregular migration. The first is to provide potential migrants with better information about the risks to be faced during the journey, including testimonials from those who have attempted the journey and statistics on the likelihood of experiencing negative events en route. The second intervention is to also provide a second safer migration alternative by adding information and assistance for migration to neighboring Senegal. The third approach is to provide vocational skill training in addition to the information about irregular migration. We evaluate the effect of these policies on actions towards migrating the “backway”, migration to Senegal, and overall well-being.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 07/12/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1.09 Jourdan
JOHANNESEN Niels (University of Copenhagen, EU Tax Observatory)
Bailing out the Kids: New Evidence on Informal Insurance from one Billion Bank Transfers
écrit avec Asger Lau Andersen, Adam Sheridan
We combine transaction-level data from the largest retail bank in Denmark and individuallevel data from government registers to study informal insurance within social networks.
Accounting for transfers in cash (money transfers) and in kind (cohabitation), we estimate
that family and friends jointly replace around 7 cents of the marginal dollar lost within
the bottom income decile, but much less at higher income levels. We document that
informal insurance covers other adverse events than income losses: expenditure shocks,
family ruptures and financial distress. Parents appear to be the key providers of informal
insurance with a small amount of insurance coming from siblings and virtually none from
grandparents and friends. Replacement rates vary monotonically with parent economic
resources.