Calendrier du 26 septembre 2022
Régulation et Environnement
Du 26/09/2022 de 17:00 à 18:15
réunion ZOOM
ITO Koichiro (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago)
*Choosing Who Chooses: Selection-Driven Targeting in Energy Rebate Programs
We develop an optimal policy assignment rule that integrates two distinctive approaches commonly used in economics: targeting by observables and targeting through self-selection. Our method can be used with experimental or quasi-experimental data to identify who should be treated, be untreated, and self-select to achieve a policymaker's objective. Applying this method to a randomized controlled trial on a residential energy rebate program, we find that targeting that optimally exploits both observable data and self-selection outperforms conventional targeting for a utilitarian welfare function as well as welfare functions that balance the equity-efficiency trade-off. We highlight that the Local Average
Treatment Effect (LATE) framework (Imbens and Angrist, 1994) can be used to investigate the mechanism behind our approach. By estimating several key LATEs based on the random variation created by our experiment, we demonstrate how our method allows policymakers to identify whose self-selection would be valuable and harmful to social welfare.
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 26/09/2022 de 17:00 à 18:15
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 75014 Paris
WEIBULL Jorgen (Toulouse School of Economics)
A framework for spatial political analysis
In order to understand current political events in democracies, it appears that the multi-dimensionality of political ideology is important. Political candidates and parties differ not only in the traditional left-right dimension, but also concerning environmental issues, migration, gender roles, international relations, law and order, defense, etc. In addition, an arguably important phenomenon in democracies is abstention from voting because of alienation. We here propose a framework for the analysis of political competition, political power, and coalition formation, in a multi-dimensional setting with consideration of abstention. Our approach combines elements from three separate literatures: (A) models of spatial political competition (pioneered by Davis and Hinich, 1966, 1967), (B) a spatial power index suggested by Lloyd Shapley in a RAND memorandum (Shapley, 1977), and (C) concepts and results in geometry concerning medians in multi-dimensional spaces (Durocher and Kirkpatrick, 2009). We illustrate the framework by applying it to data for the recently elected Swedish parliament (“riksdag”).
Econometrics Seminar
Du 26/09/2022 de 16:00 à 17:15
CREST, room 3001
HELM Ines (LMU Munich)
Inference for Ranks
écrit avec Co-authors: Sergei Bazylik, Magne Mogstad, Joseph P. Romano, and Azeem M. Shaikh
This talk is based on two papers: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpdwi/papers/cwp0422.pdf and
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpdwi/papers/cwp4021.pdf.
GSIELM (Graduate Students International Economics and Labor Market) Lunch Seminar
Du 26/09/2022 de 13:00 à 14:00
Maison des Sciences Economiques, Salle 116
SIMSEK Betül (Hamburg University)
Women's Rights and the Gender Migration Gap
This is the first global study of how women's rights and gender discrimination affect the gender migration gap. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a RUM model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that improving gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the gender migration gap, which means that female emigration is reduced relative to that of men. In line with our theory, this average effect is driven by higher-income countries. In contrast, an increase in gender equality in lower-income countries reduces the gender migration gap in these countries by facilitating female emigration.
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