Calendrier du 23 janvier 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 23/01/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
Campus Jourdan - Room R2-20
BRIOLE Simon (Paris School of Economics)
The effects of peers' gender on students' performance and academic career - evidence from natural variation in french middle school
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 23/01/2018 de 16:30 à 19:30
Campus Jourdan - Room R1-13
écrit avec Site : https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/research/seminars/migration-seminar/
16:30 - 17:30 Frédéric Docquier (Université Catholique de Louvain), Global warming, inequality and migration.
17:30 - 18:00 Discussants: Katrin Millock (PSE), Simone Bertoli (CERDI)
18:00 - 18: 15 Break
18:15 - 19:15 Joshua Blumenstock (UC Berkeley), Social networks and international migration
19:15 - 19:45 Discussants: Fosca Giannotti (Pisa), Margherita Comola (PSE)
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 23/01/2018 de 14:45 à 16:15
ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405
VAN BIESEBROECK Johannes (KU)
*Comparative advantage in routine production
écrit avec Liza Archanskaia and Gerald Willmann
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 23/01/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ROY Sutanuka (Australian National University)
Disruptive Effects of Preferential Policies: Evidence from Large Scale Field Experiments in India
This paper reports on the first large-scale randomized field experiment (which includes 14,190undergraduate students) involving legally-recognized minorities to examine the causal effects ofproviding performance based financial incentives to disadvantaged students on high stakes universitytest scores. Two definitions of being disadvantaged are examined separately: 1) income disadvantage2) social disadvantage of belonging to minority groups, i.e., the lower caste groups. The aim ofthe paper is to measure the impact of two types of affirmative action policies on the disadvantagedgroups that the policies target and on the excluded relatively advantaged peers. When only poorstudents were given the opportunity to win the prize incentives, the average test scores of wholecohort decreased by .14 standard deviations. There is a negative spillover effect on the test scores ofthe nonpoor peers who are excluded from the opportunity to win the prize incentives. Mechanisms ofacademic non co-operation as a response to preferential policies are explored. The paper providesevidence of social tension and consequent non-cooperation among peers when only poor students areincentivized and majority of the peers, who happen to be non poor, are excluded.