Calendrier du 14 décembre 2021
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 14/12/2021 de 17:00 à 18:15
On line
DONALDSON Dave (MIT & CEPR)
Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence
écrit avec joint with Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth), Paul Carrillo (GWU), Arnaud Costinot (MIT) and Dina Pomeranz (Zurich)
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 14/12/2021 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle R1-14, Campus Jourdan
BOCQUET Leonard (PSE)
The Network Origin of Slow Labor Reallocation
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 14/12/2021 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-15
BAKKER Jan (Bocconi University, CEP and IFS)
Cancelled Cities, Heterogenous Firms and Trade
écrit avec A. Garcia-Marin, A. Potlogea, N. Voigtländer, Y. Yang
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 14/12/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
VAN DER WEELE Joël (University of Amsterdam)
Fair Shares and Selective Attention
écrit avec Dianna Amasino, Davide D. Pace
Fairness views often serve to justify economic privilege. To understand the formationof such views, we experimentally investigate how subjects allocate their visual atten-tion to the contributions of merit and luck in the generation of a surplus, and how theydecide on its division. We find that subjects who randomly obtained an advantagedposition pay less attention to information about true merit and retain more of thesurplus. Both the attentional and behavioral patterns persist when dictators subse-quently divide money between pairs of advantaged and disadvantaged subjects in therole of a benevolent judge. Moreover, attention has a substantial causal effect: forcingsubjects to look for one second more at merit information relative to overall outcomesreduces the effect of having an advantaged position on allocations by about 25%. Thesefindings suggest that attention-based policy interventions may be effective in reducingpolarized views on inequality.