Calendrier du 07 mars 2017
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 07/03/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
HE Yinghua (Rice U)
Absence, Substitutability and Productivity: Evidence from Teachers
Paris Seminar in Demographic Economics
Du 07/03/2017 de 16:30 à 19:30
Palais Brongniart
LETURCQ Marion(INED)
WALDFOGEL Jane(Columbia University)
PANICO Lidia(INED)
Too many children left behind. The U.S. achievement gap in comparative perspective
- Jane Waldfogel (Columbia U.), Too many children left behind. The U.S. achievement gap in comparative perspective
- Lidia Panico and Marion Leturcq (INED), The long-term effects of parental separation on childhood financial poverty and multidimensional deprivation: A lifecourse approach
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 07/03/2017 de 14:30 à 16:00
MSE,106, Blv de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, salle du 6ème étage
CHANEY Thomas (Sciences Po)
Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
écrit avec Gojko Barjamovic, Kerem Cosar, Ali Hortacsu
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 07/03/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
HOUNGBONON Georges (TSE-IDEI)
Winners or Losers from Broadband Internet
écrit avec Julienne LIANG (Orange)
Skill-biased technological change is identified as one of the drivers of worsening in-equality and unemployment in high-income countries. However, not all technologies are skill-biased. In this paper, we investigate the effects of fixed broadband Internet adoption on income inequality and employment in France. Using a unique town-level data, we find that broadband adoption raises income, lowers within-town inequality, particularly when the adoption rate reaches a critical mass of 30%, but widens the income gap between towns. Furthermore, broadband adoption has no significant effect on unemployment rate, but comes with jobs creation and destruction in specific economic sectors. These results are robust to the estimation strategy, and accord well with the findings of previous studies. In particular, our estimates imply that 10% increase in broadband penetration raises gross national income per capita by 2%, very close to existing cross-country estimates.