Calendrier du 23 mars 2022
Development Economics Seminar
Du 23/03/2022 de 16:30 à 17:45
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
SERNEELS Pieter (Universty of East Anglia)
The collective action mechanism in community-based monitoring of public services.
écrit avec with Abigail Barr, Frederick Mugisha, Andrew Zeitlin
We conducted an experiment to test one mechanism through which community monitoring of public services may operate. Working with the Government of Uganda, we randomly assigned schools and their management committees to two variants of a score card. Community based score cards are found to have higher impact than standardised ones on teacher absenteeism and pupil enrolment, presence and learning, by individual or joint testing employing randomisation inference. They also induce higher cooperation, measured directly through a public goods game. Further analysis rules out information as an alternative channel. Mediation analysis confirms that a substantial share of impact stems from collective action.
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 23/03/2022 de 14:30 à 16:00
Salle R2.21, Campus Jourdan
HOšMAN Mirek Tobiáš (Université Paris Cité)
No Longer a Bank: The Economists’ Takeover at the World Bank
Economic History Seminar
Du 23/03/2022 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
DAUDIN Guillaume (Université Paris Dauphine)
Not “easy to win”: The British war on French trade, 1744-1815
International trade is one of the main issues at stake in the rivalry between powers. The British war on French trade from the War of Austrian Succession to the fall of Napoleon gives us a lesson on how to win it when outright destruction is not an option. We suggest a measure of the achievements of a war on French trade. We present the policies implemented by Britain to wage it: establishment of naval supremacy, overseas territorial capture, predation on French ships and extension of this predation to neutral carriers. We show that long term success implied a durable change in the structure of French trade. Finally, we compute that, compared to loses inflicted on the French economy, waging this war on trade was a costly endeavor.