Calendrier du 10 mai 2022
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 10/05/2022 de 17:00 à 18:15
On line
BJöRKMAN NYQVIST Martina (Stockholm School of Economics & CEPR)
Community Health Provision at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uganda
écrit avec with Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson, and Phyllis Awor
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 10/05/2022 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
REITZMANN Leo (PSE)
‘Bad’ Oil, ‘Worse’ Oil and Carbon Misallocation
Du 10/05/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.01 PSE
RICHARD Marion (PSE)
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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 10/05/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2.01 PSE
CHAROUSSET Pauline (PSE)
How Do Elite Post-Secondary Programs Select their Students?
écrit avec Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet and Yinghua He
This paper uses data from the centralized system of college admissions in France to estimate selective programs' preferences over applicants. To assess how selective programs weigh each applicant's characteristic when making admissions decisions, we assume that they rank applicants based on a score value that depends linearly on their grades and demographic characteristics, among which gender, social background and geographical origin. Using a program-specific logistic lasso estimation, we find that selective programs give preferential treatment to geographically-close applicants. Applicants to selective programs located in their own high school or district are given an advantage that is equivalent to a 0.3 standard deviation increase in each of the applicant's grades, for the programs with the highest preference for geographically-close applicants. To assess how programs' preferences for applicants' demographic characteristics affect the diversity of their student body, we simulate the impact of a policy ban on demographic characteristics, and find that the ban only moderately affects the average composition of admitted students to selective programs, but can have substantial effects on the geographical composition of the student body for some types of programs.
Du 10/05/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.01 PSE
RICHARD Marion (PSE)
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