Calendrier du 15 mars 2022
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 15/03/2022 de 17:00 à 18:15
On line
WOODRUF Chris (University of Oxford, BREAD & CEPR)
Long-run Effects of Cash Grants: The Sri Lanka Microenterprise Project after 10 years
écrit avec w. S. De Mel and D. McKenzie
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 15/03/2022 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13, Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94740575953
ASAI Kentaro (PSE)
Working hour reform and labor demand: evidence from Portugal
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 15/03/2022 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
DORN David (U. Zurich and CEPR)
No Help for the Heartland? The US Employment Effects of the Trump Tariffs
écrit avec D. Autor, A. Beck and G. Hanson
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 15/03/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
BARRERA Oscar (Paris School of Economics)
Information and Normative Economics on Attitudes Towards the Top one Percent
écrit avec Emmanuel Chavez
We study the effects of providing quantitative information and normative economics about top earners on people's attitudes towards the richest 1 percent. We conduct an online experiment with 2000 French participants assigned randomly to either only quantitative information on top earners' income levels and their respective sources of income (capital vs. labor), or to quantitative information plus normative egalitarian interpretations. We find that: (i) respondents overestimate the income of the richest 1 percent and want them to pay a higher income tax rate than the current one. (ii) Quantitative information shifts attitudes about top earners towards the unfavorable spectrum. This effect comes mainly from information on the sources of income. (iii) Quantitative information by itself does not affect preferences towards the top income tax rate. In contrast, (iv) quantitative and normative egalitarian interpretations lead respondents to choose a higher income tax rate for the richest 1 percent.