Calendrier du 23 octobre 2023
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 23/10/2023 de 17:00 à 18:30
R1-09
ORLOV Dmitry (Wisconsin-Madison)
Exchanging Information (with Andrzej Skrzypacz and Pavel Zryumov)
We analyze a class of dynamic games of information exchange between two players. Each agent
possesses information about a binary state that is of interest to the other player and cares about
the other player’s actions. Preferences are additively separable over own and the other player’s
actions. We fully characterize the set of equilibrium payoffs that can be sustained in such
games and construct equilibria that achieve those payoffs. We show that gradual information
exchange dominates static (one-shot) communication. Moreover, the whole set of outcomes
that Pareto-dominate static communication can be supported in equilibrium.
Du 23/10/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
R1.14
AGER Philipp (Mannheim University)
Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming (joint with Marc Goni and Kjell G. Salvanes)
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining population-wide panel data from the Norwegian registry with municipality-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural transformation by displacing young rural women from their traditional jobs on farms in dairy-intensive municipalities. The displaced women moved to urban areas where they acquired a higher level of education and found better-paid employment. These findings are consistent with the predictions of a Roy model of comparative advantage, extended to account for task automation and the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector. We also quantify significant inter-generational effects of this gender-biased technology adoption. Our results imply that the mechanization of farming has broken deeply rooted gender norms, transformed women’s work, and improved their long-term educational and earning opportunities, relative to men.