Calendrier du 24 mai 2017
Development Economics Seminar
Du 24/05/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard jourdan, 75014 paris
MEGHIR Costas (Yale University)
Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Colombia
écrit avec Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio-Codina
Abstract
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention
in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a
sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the
determinants of material and time investments in these children and evaluate the im-
pact of the treatment on such investments. We then estimate the production functions
for cognitive and socio-emotional skills. The effects of the program can be explained
by increases in parental investments, which have strong effects on outcomes and are
complementary to both maternal skills and child's baseline skills.
Economic History Seminar
Du 24/05/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VON GLAHN Richard (UCLA)
Modalities of the fiscal state in imperial China in comparative perspective
Du 24/05/2017