Calendrier du 14 octobre 2020
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 14/10/2020 de 17:30 à 18:30
KU Hyejin (UCL)
Migration and Cultural Change
écrit avec with Salin Sardoschau (Humbolt University) and Arthur Silve (Université de Laval)
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value Survey for the period 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our evidence is inconsistent with the view that immigrants are a threat to the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bringabout cultural convergence, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances).
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Development Economics Seminar
Du 14/10/2020 de 16:30 à 18:00
Via ZOOM
IMELDA I. (Universidad Carlos III MADRID)
Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply
écrit avec with Anjali P. Verma
Women are known to bear the largest share of health, time, and labor supply burden associated with a lack of modern energy. In this paper, we study the impact of clean energy access on adult health and labor supply outcomes by exploiting a nationwide rollout of clean cooking fuel program in Indonesia. This program led to a large-scale fuel switching, from kerosene, a dirty fuel, to liquid petroleum gas, a cleaner one. Using longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and exploiting the staggered structure of the program rollout, we find that access to clean cooking fuel led to a significant improvement in women's health, particularly among those who spend most of their time indoors doing housework. We also find an increase in women's work hours, suggesting that access to cleaner fuel can improve women's health and plausibly their productivity, allowing them to supply more market labor. For men, we find an increase in the work hours and propensity to have an additional job, particularly in households where women accrued the largest health and labor benefits from the program. These results highlight the role of clean energy in reducing gender-disparity in health and point to the existence of positive externalities from the improved health of women on other members of the household.
Economic History Seminar
Du 14/10/2020 de 12:30 à 14:00
VIA ZOOM
GAYON Vincent (Université Paris Dauphine, IRISSO)
L’organisation internationale de l’économie dans les années 1970-1980. Une sociologie politique
Que savons-nous du fonctionnement pratique des organisations économiques internationales? Evoluent-elles dans un éther au-dessus des populations et des États? Sont-elles aussi influentes qu’on le prétend? Répondre à ces questions suppose de mener l’enquête sociologique dans ces espaces feutrés, réputés pour leur confidentialité, leur hermétisme, leur conformisme autant que pour l’anonymat de leur personnel et leur distance à l’égard des formes institutionnalisées de démocratie représentative et sociale. La réflexion s’ancrera sur l’OCDE et son projet de Welfare Society (1973-1985) qui ambitionnait de devenir le « nouveau rapport Beveridge », en intégrant le social et l’économique, voire l’écologique, et d’étendre ainsi le « Welfare State ». Ce projet a été enfoui par le « tournant néolibéral » et sa focalisation sur la « crise » de l’Etat social.