Calendrier du 16 mars 2021
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 16/03/2021 de 17:00 à 18:15
HANNA REMA (Harvard Kennedy School and CEPR)
Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
écrit avec w/ Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan and Sudarno Sumarto
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 16/03/2021 de 17:00 à 18:00
LOGEART Rosanne ()
The Environmental Safeguards Team: An analysis of NGOs advocacy at the European Commission
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 16/03/2021 de 14:30 à 16:00
Using Zoom
COSTINOT Arnaud (MIT)
International Trade and Earnings Inequality: A New Factor Content Approach
écrit avec R. Adao (Chicago Booth), P. Carrillo (GWU)
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 16/03/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
GETHIN Amory (PSE)
Political Cleavages in Western Democracies, 1948-2020
écrit avec Clara Martinez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty
This paper exploits a new dataset on the determinants of voting behaviors in over 300 elections held between 1948 and 2020 to document the long-run transformation of political cleavages in 21 Western democracies. In the 1950s-1960s, the vote for left-wing (social democratic and affiliated) parties was associated with lower-educated and low-income voters. It has gradually become associated with higher-educated voters, giving rise to “multi-elite party systems” in the 2000s-2010s: high-education elites now vote for the “left”, while high-income elites still vote for the “right”. This transition has been reinforced by the rise of green and far-right parties since the 1980s and by the emergence of a new "libertarian-authoritarian" axis of political conflict. We also analyze the evolution of other dimensions of political conflict related to age, gender, religion or geography, and provide evidence that the reversal of the educational cleavage is the most significant change, common to nearly all Western democracies, that the structure of electoral behaviors has undergone in the past decades.