Calendrier du 12 avril 2018
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 12/04/2018 de 15:45 à 17:00
PSE - 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-09
KARADI Peter (European Central Bank)
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Travail et économie publique externe
Du 12/04/2018 de 12:30 à 13:45
ROCKOFF Jonah (Columbia University)
The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations
écrit avec Co-authors: Thomas Dee, Will Dobbie, and Brian Jacob
We show that the design and decentralized scoring of New York's high school exit exams -- the Regents Examinations -- led to systematic manipulation of test scores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Exploiting a series of reforms that eliminated score manipulation, we find heterogeneous effects of test score manipulation on academic outcomes. While inflating a score increases the probability of a student graduating from high school by about 17 percentage points, the probability of taking advanced coursework declines by roughly 10 percentage points. These results are consistent with manipulation helping students on the margin of dropping out but hurting those with greater academic potential who are not pushed to gain a solid understanding of foundational material.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 12/04/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
salle R1-13, campus Jourdan - 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
RINCON ZAPATERO Juan Pablo (Université Carlos III Madrid)
Recursive Utility and Thompson Aggregators (joint avec R. Becker)
écrit avec R. Becker
We reconsider the theory of Thompson aggregators proposed by Mari- nacci and Montruccio. First, we prove a variant of their Recovery Theorem estabilishing the existence of extremal solutions to the Koopmans equa- tion. Then, under more restrictive conditions, we demonstrate there is a unique solution to the Koopmans equation. Our proof is based on concave operator techniques as first developed by Kransosels’kii. This differs from Marinacci and Montruccio’s proof as well as proofs given by Martins de la Rocha and Vailakis.
Behavior seminar
Du 12/04/2018 de 11:00 à 12:00
New building R2-21
KONOW James (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Can Economic Ethics Affect Attitudes and Behavior?
Recent business scandals, economic upheavals and claims of broad types of unethical conduct among professional economists (e.g., List et al., 2001) have contributed to a growing discourse on returning economics to its origins as a “moral science” and on strengthening the emphasis on ethics in economics teaching and research, e.g., see Atkinson (2011), Bruni and Sugden (2013), DeMartino (2011), Sandel (2013), and Schiller and Schiller (2011). A now voluminous literature that began with Marwell and Ames (1981) and Carter and Irons (1991) asks “does studying economics lead to more self-interested behaviour?” Here we turn this question on its head and ask “does studying ethics in an economic context affect moral attitudes or behavior?”
This presentation reports the results of two studies. “Does Studying Ethics Affect Moral Views?: An Application to Economic Justice” considers whether the oldest and most traditional form of ethics instruction, namely philosophical ethics, can influence views of economic justice using the responses in surveys to contextually rich vignettes. “An Experimental Study of the Behavioral Effects of Ethics in the Economics Classroom” reports the results of economics experiments conducted with students in introductory economics classes following lectures on ethics. The results are sometimes enigmatic: non-effects obtain, even when the costs of reporting an effect are low in the survey study, whereas significant effects sometimes appear, when participants have material stakes in the economics experiments. These findings suggest that considerable subtlety is required in contemplating types of ethics instruction and in interpreting the effects.
Behavior Working Group
Du 12/04/2018 de 10:00 à 11:00
Campus Jourdan, R1-16
HEMON Antoine ()
Should We Take Experimental Recommendations at Face Value ? Social Image Motivation & Self-Sorting in a Public-Good Experiment