Calendrier du 20 avril 2017
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 20/04/2017 de 15:45 à 17:00
Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
GEEROLF François (UCLA) *;
La séance est annulée
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 20/04/2017 de 13:00 à 14:15
Salle R2-07, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GURYAN Jonathan (Northwestern)
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Disadvantaged Youth
écrit avec Cook, P.J., Dodge, K., Farkas, G., Fryer Jr., J., Ludwig, J., Mayer, S., Pollack, H. and Steinberg, L.
There is growing concern that improving the academic skills of children in poverty is too difficult and costly once they reach adolescence, and so policymakers should instead focus either on vocationally oriented instruction or else on early childhood education. Yet this conclusion might be premature given that so few previous interventions have targeted a key barrier to school success: “mismatch” between what schools deliver and the needs of youth, particularly those far behind grade level. The researchers report on a randomized controlled trial of a school-based intervention that provides disadvantaged youth with intensive individualized academic instruction. The study sample consists of 2,718 male ninth and tenth graders in 12 public high schools on the south and west sides of Chicago, of whom 95 percent are either black or Hispanic and more than 90 percent are free- or reduced-price lunch eligible. Participation increased math achievement test scores by 0.19 to 0.31 standard deviations (SD), depending on how the researchers standardize, increased math grades by 0.50 SD, and reduced course failures in math by one-half in addition to reducing failures in non math courses. While
some questions remain, these impacts on a per-dollar basis—with a cost per participant of around $3,800, or $2,500 if delivered at larger scale—are as large as those of almost any other educational intervention whose effectiveness has been rigorously studied.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 20/04/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BASTIANELLO Lorenzo (Paris 1)
Target-based solutions for Nash bargaining
PEPES (Paris Empirical Political Economics) Working Group
Du 20/04/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Sc Po - TBD
JEDWAB Rémi ()
Economic Shocks, Inter-Ethnic Complementarities and the Persecution of Minorities: Evidence
Behavior seminar
Du 20/04/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R2-01, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GYRD-HANSEN Dorte (University of Southern Denmark)
A stated preference approach to assess whether health status impacts on marginal utility of consumption
An often, but not widely appreciated assumption underlying theoretical predictions of optimal insurance is that marginal utility of consumption evaluated at any given income level remains constant whether the individual is well or ill. However, if utility of consumption is increased or decreased by ill health, this will have an effect on the theoretical predictions of optimal choice of health insurance. In addition to the question of optimal insurance, the issue of state dependence also relates to the validity of asking patients (and not citizens) for their valuations of health improvements in stated preference studies when these are to guide the resource allocation of communal funds. To the extent that patients are in poor health and there is significant negative or positive state dependence, the marginal utility of income will not be equivalent to that of the average taxpayer, and thus, derivation of societal net benefits will be biased. Moreover, negative state dependence could be used as a justification for transferring resources from non-healthy/disabled to health individuals. Hence, the presence of state dependence has methodological as well as policy relevance. Despite the importance of the subject, very few studies have been conducted. These studies show contradictory evidence. The approach presented in this paper mimics a simple insurance market, where individuals can self-insure across two periods of time (one in which the person is in good health and one in which the person is in poorer health). The health states are presented as certain events, thus eliminating any problems associated with cognition and probabilities. The focus of this study is not to derive an estimate of state dependence, but to determine whether or not individuals exhibit positive or negative state dependence when confronted with a short term reduction in health and to qualify whether the severity of a given health state affects the sign of state dependence.
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