Calendrier du 13 janvier 2021
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 13/01/2021 de 17:30 à 18:30
via Zoom
TEYTELBOYM Alexander (University of Oxford)
An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan
écrit avec Stefano Caria, Grant Gordon, Maximilian Kasy, Simon Quinn and Soha Shami
We introduce a novel methodology for adaptive targeted experiments. Our Tempered Thompson Algorithm balances the goals of maximizing the precision of treatment effect estimates and maximizing the welfare of experimental participants. A hierarchical Bayesian model allows us to adaptively target treatments at different groups. We implement our methodology in a field experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to address challenges of self-control. Six weeks after being offered treatment, none of the interventions has a significant or meaningful impact on the probability that individuals are in wage employment; we estimate that our targeting algorithm had a positive but small effect on aggregate employment (approximately 1 percentage point). However, we find large employment effects of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees.
Economic History Seminar
Du 13/01/2021 de 12:30 à 14:00
Via Zoom
LEROUXEL Francois (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne)
ZURBACH Julien(ENS)
Le changement dans les économies antiques
Le changement dans les économies anciennes, rassemble des contributions issues de plusieurs années de travail en groupe. Historiens, archéologues et environnementalistes ont travaillé ensemble sur quelques produits essentiels aux économies antiques. Ils ouvrent un nouveau type de dialogue interdisciplinaire, permettant de dépasser des oppositions anciennes (entre primitivistes et modernistes, partisans de la stagnation et de la croissance).