Calendrier du 18 novembre 2020
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 18/11/2020 de 17:30 à 18:30
GöRLACH Joseph-Simon(Bocconi University)
ÖZDEN Çağlar( World Bank )
Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh
écrit avec with Laurent Bossavie and He Wang
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 18/11/2020 de 17:00 à 18:30
Via Zoom
LABARDIN Pierre (Univ. Paris Dauphine - PSL)
La Réévalution des bilans des entreprises pendant l'entre-deux-guerres
Development Economics Seminar
Du 18/11/2020 de 16:30 à 18:00
via ZOOM
C.AKER Jenny (Tufst University )
Harvesting the rain:The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel*
écrit avec Kelsey Jack
We study the adoption of an environmental technology (demi-lunes) in Niger.
Like many environmental technologies, demi-lunes require an upfront investment in
exchange for medium-run benefits, which agronomists estimate to be substantial. We
implement a cluster randomized control trial in 180 villages with treatments designed to
relax informational, credit and labor constraints. Relative to a pure control, training
increases the probability of adoption by 90 percentage points. Combining training
with either unconditional or conditional cash transfers has no additional effect on
the extensive margin of adoption, but increases the intensity of adoption by 35-50
percent relative to training alone. We also observe increases in agricultural output,
consistent with agronomic descriptions of the costs and benefits of adoption, as well
as other measures of household well-being. Over 90 percent of treatment households
have operational demi-lunes two years later. Using the pattern of results and our
experimental design, we investigate the mechanisms underlying our findings.
Economic History Seminar
Du 18/11/2020 de 12:30 à 14:00
via ZOOM
DUPRAZ Yannick (University College Dublin)
Geographical representativeness of the executive and regional favoritism in France, 1800-2019
How do political cleavages based on geographical considerations give way to political cleavages based on economic and social consideration? A large literature in economics and political science considers how governments can be captured by different interest groups. In Western democracies, these interest groups are typically defined by their economic characteristics (political cleavages are economic). In developing countries these interest groups are typically defined geographically or in ethnic terms (political cleavages are geographical). Recent papers study government ethnic composition and regional favoritism (when a leader favors their region of birth in the provision of public goods) in the contemporaneous period, but there is no systematic evidence on the prevalence of geographical cleavages and regional favoritism in European history. To fill in the gap, I collected biographical data on all government members of several European countries between 1800 and 2019. This presentation will show preliminary results for France, attempting to answer two questions: 1/ how did the geographical representativeness of the executive evolve in France in the last two centuries, 2/ is there evidence of widespread regional favoritism?