Calendrier du 19 novembre 2019
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 19/11/2019 de 17:00 à 18:00
KSEBI Ilham ()
Are they Over Satisfied? The Gap between Subjective and Objective Position of Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market
According to objective standards, women and immigrants have worse labour market achievements than men and locals, yet they report relatively high levels of perceived income and job satisfaction. In this paper, I use a large sample of workers taken from the Italian labour force survey to investigate this matter in two steps. First, I separately asses the determinants of the objective and the subjective work perspective by stressing the role of the gender and the migration status, together with other personal characteristics of workers and labour market variables. Moreover, I estimate the gap between subjective and objective work perception by breaking it along many dimensions. The estimation results reveal that gender has a stronger effect on the gap with respect to the migration status. In addition, I show that a substantial subjective gap is observed among immigrants coming from developing countries.
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 19/11/2019 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris, Salle R1-09
VALETTE Jérôme(Univ.Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA Jesus(University Carlos III Madrid)
Border Apprehensions, Salience of Hispanic Identity and Sentences in the US Federal Criminal Justice System
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Paris Trade Seminar
Du 19/11/2019 de 14:45 à 16:15
Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés) SALLE H 402
FABER Ben (PSE)
Scaling Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda
écrit avec Lauren Bergquist, Thibault Fally, Matthias Hoelzlein, Edward Miguel and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 19/11/2019 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BAUMARD Nicolas ()
The Origins of Romantic Love and Asceticism : How Economic Prosperity Changed Human Psychology in Medieval Europe
écrit avec Elise Huilerie, Léo Zabrocki
In this paper, we study the effect of economic development on human psychology during the Middle Ages (600-1600) in a panel of European countries. We show that the increasing prosperity enjoyed by Europeans during this period transformed their psychology and shifted their preferences away from purely materialistic motivations toward higher motivations which include strong emotional attachment, commitment, self-discipline, renunciation of material possessions for spiritual goals, and intrinsic motivation. To test this idea, we construct a unique database on two behaviors that express these motivations romantic love and asceticism from relatively homogenous sources over the long-term: the biographies of the saints for asceticism, and the topics of narrative fictions for romantic love. We use the introduction of the heavy plow as an instrument for economic prosperity (in the form of population density) to identify the causal impact of economic prosperity on these behaviors. Our results show that higher population density caused a rise in love and asceticism, which provides first macro-economic and historical evidence that economic development had a causal effect on human psychology in medieval Europe.