Calendrier du 30 mars 2017
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 30/03/2017 de 13:00 à 14:15
Salle R2-07, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DOYLE Joseph (MIT Sloan School of Management)
The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting
Using a randomized experiment in Ireland, this study investigates the impact of sustained investment in parenting from pregnancy until age five on children’s development. Providing the Preparing for Life program, which incorporates a home visiting program, group parenting classes, and baby massage classes, to disadvantaged families raises children’s cognitive scores by one-third of a standard deviation on average (0.21-0.81) and non-cognitive scores by one-fifth of a standard deviation (0.19-0.41). The sizes of the effects exceed current meta-analytic estimations. Heterogeneous effects by gender and parity indicate few differential effects by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. Results are robust to small sample size, differential attrition, multiple hypothesis testing, and contamination.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 30/03/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle R1-11, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
STEPANOV Sergey (Higher School of Economics )
Reputation and information aggregation.
Behavior seminar
Du 30/03/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle R2-21, Nouveau Bâtiment, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
STABILE Mark (INSEAD)
Explaining the Rise in C-sections: the contributions of physician incentives and research spillovers
Cesarean section rates are historically high in Canada as they are across the OECD. We investigate the roles of physician incentives and spillover effects of a major research trial on breech deliveries. We find that doubling the relative compensation of C-sections over vaginal deliveries increases the probability of a C-section by at most four percentage points. We also show that the publication of the “Hannah Term Breech Trial” had spillover effects on the C-section rate for vertex births. The secular increase in the C-section rate is largely accounted for by observable characteristics of births, mothers and health care systems.