Calendrier du 18 janvier 2023
Economic History Seminar
Du 18/01/2023 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09, Campus Jourdan
JUIF Dacil (Université Carlos III Madrid)
The impact of copper mining activities on education in Zambia from a long-term perspective (1920 to 2000)
écrit avec with Laura Maravall-Buckwalter
The cross-country “resource curse” literature links dependence on minerals to worsening socio-economic outcomes, including education. We assess the local impact of large-scale mining activities on schooling in Zambia, a copper-dependent economy, since 1920. We use census data from IPUMS International and study how education differs across regions during the period 1920-2000. Our preliminary results show that proximity to mines raises the average years of schooling by up to around 30 percent in the 1940s. Contrary to what previous African economic history literature has claimed, early mission location has no effect on the comparative development of education within Zambia. The mechanisms explored include income and wealth, urbanization, comparatively skill-intensive job opportunities, and a better supply of schooling by state and mine companies.
Job Market Seminar
Du 18/01/2023 de 12:00 à 13:15
R2-21
BENMIR Ghassane (London School of Economics, PSL)
The Distributional Costs of Net-Zero: A Heterogeneous Agent Perspective
écrit avec Josselin Roman
This paper investigates the distributional impacts of implementing the net-zero
emissions target in the U.S. for the 2050 horizon. We model a heterogeneous household
economy and show that 2050 net-zero policy is welfare enhancing in the long run, but
induces short/medium-run distributional costs. We quantify this trade-off by a 0.54%
consumption equivalent welfare gain (compared to the laissez-faire) in the long run and
a 6-10 percent increase of financially constrained households by 2050. We then show
how distributing revenue from the carbon policy could partially offset consumption
losses and smooth the net-zero transition. We also extend our analysis to the cases
of: i) sticky prices, showing how net-zero emissions induces inflationary pressure over
the long run, which could represent a challenge for monetary policy conduction in a
world with high inflation, and ii) abatement learning, showing how green innovation
decreases carbon prices and boosts consumption over the transition.