Calendrier du 22 mars 2023
Development Economics Seminar
Du 22/03/2023 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
JAGNANI Maulik (University of Colorado Denver)
Financial Concerns and Sleeplessness
écrit avec Claire Duquennois and Maulik Jagnani*
Do people worried about their personal finances experience lower quality sleep? Using a
regression discontinuity research design, we find that eligible household heads surveyed just
after the disbursement of an unconditional cash transfer in Indonesia report a 0.3 standard
deviation improvement in sleep quality as compared to those surveyed just before the cash
disbursement. The cash transfer appears to have alleviated financial concerns amongst household
heads, who are responsible for satisfying the daily necessities of the household. Immediately
after disbursement, eligible households report an increase in savings, and eligible household
heads report feeling less worried, frustrated, and tired. Consistent with evidence from sleep
medicine, eligible household heads displayed improved performance on memory and attention
tests but not on reasoning or problem-solving tests. These patterns of results are not observed for
household heads ineligible for the cash transfer, which suggests that our results are not driven by
seasonal confounders or aggregate shocks. These results are also not observed for other members
of eligible households, who are not responsible for satisfying the households’ financial needs.
We also argue that nutrition, time in bed, and labor supply cannot explain our results.
Economic History Seminar
Du 22/03/2023 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09, Campus Jourdan
BECK KNUDSEN Anne Sofie (University of Copenhagen)
Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change in the Age of Mass Migration
This paper studies the cultural determinants and consequences of mass emigration from Scandinavia to North America in the 19th century. I test the hypothesis that people with collectivist traits tended to stay rather than emigrate because they faced higher costs of leaving familiar social networks behind. Exploiting near-complete data on 1.5 million emigrants and 10 million stayers in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, I find that children who grew up in households that practiced stronger collectivist norms were less likely to emigrate later in life. I proceed to document that this type of selective emigration generated lasting change in migrant-sending locations. Locations that experienced larger outflows of particularly selected individuals are thus more collectivist today