Calendrier du 30 novembre 2022
Development Economics Seminar
Du 30/11/2022 de 16:00 à 18:00
Salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan
SOMVILLE Vincent (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
On the Doorstep of Adulthood: Empowering Economic and Fertility Choices of Young Women
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Fortunata Makene, Linda Helgesson Sekei, Vincent Somville, Bertil Tungodden
We report from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of women empowerment in Tanzania investigating how two different empowerment strategies, economic empowerment and reproductive health empowerment, shape the economic and fertility choices of young women when they transition into adulthood. The analysis builds on a rich data set (survey, experimental, and medical data) collected over more than five years. The economic empowerment reduces poverty, while teenage pregnancy increases with both economic and reproductive health empowerment. The increase in fertility comes from a positive income effect and by women entering earlier into a relationship. We also provide evidence of the importance of social norms and labor market flexibility in explaining the income and relationship effects on fertility. The findings provide new insights on the economics of fertility, and show the importance of a comprehensive approach to women empowerment.
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Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 30/11/2022 de 16:00 à 17:30
Salle R1.13, Campus Jourdan
VELDE François ()
Debt restructuring in Britain in the early 18th c., winners and losers
Economic History Seminar
Du 30/11/2022 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan
PALMA Nuno (University of Manchester )
American treasure and the decline of Spain
Spain was one of the world’s richest countries and a first-rank European power around 1500. Two centuries later it was a backwater. In this paper, we study the long-run impact of the influx of silver from the New World since 1500 for the economic development of Spain. Compared with a synthetic counterfactual, the price level in Spain increased by up to 200% more by the mid-seventeenth century. Spain’s GDP per capita outperformed other European nations for around a century: by 1600, it was close to 40% higher than in its counterfactual. However, this effect was reversed in the following 150 years: by 1750, GDP per capita was 40% lower than it would have been if Spain had not been the first-wave receiver of the American treasure.