Calendrier du 14 octobre 2015
Football et sciences sociales : les footballeurs entre institutions et marchés
Du 14/10/2015 de 18:00 à 19:30
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment A, Rez de chaussée, Salle 2
LE TIEC Lucie (CLERSé (CENTRE LILLOIS D’ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES SOCIOLOGIQUES ET ECO))
Du district à la fédération : les étapes significatives d’une carrière d’arbitre de football
Development Economics Seminar
Du 14/10/2015 de 17:00 à 18:30
JAKIELA Pamela (University of Maryland)
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
écrit avec Owen Ozier
We estimate the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. We measure individual risk preferences using hypothetical lottery choice questions which we validate by showing that they predict migration and entrepreneurship in the cross-section. Our results indicate that the post-election violence increased individual risk aversion significantly. Findings remain robust when we use an IV estimation strategy that exploits random assignment of respondents to waves of surveying.
Economic History Seminar
Du 14/10/2015 de 12:30 à 14:00
WALDENSTOM Daniel (UPPSALA UNIVERSITY)
Inherited wealth over the path of development: Sweden, 1810–2010