Calendrier du mois de janvier 2017
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 31/01/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BRIOLE Simon (Paris School of Economics)
From teacher quality to teaching quality: Instruction time, teaching practices and student achievement in the US
Though teachers are consistently found to play a major role in shaping student learning, the determinants of instructional productivity remains a puzzle. In this paper, I implement a within-student between (math) topics strategy on TIMSS 2011 US student test scores to assess the average mathematics instructional productivity in the US. Then, I investigate the role of a largely unexplored and yet intuitive input of teachers’ productivity, namely the teaching prac- tices they implement in the classroom. I find that, on average, one weekly hour of mathematics instructional time increases test scores by 4.4% of a standard deviation, and that the use of practices emphasizing student active participation in the lesson is positively and strongly corre- lated to instructional productivity. A one standard deviation increase in the relative use of these practices is related to a 0.08 standard deviation increase in student test scores over the year, which is equivalent to half the effect of a standard deviation increase in teacher value-added estimates from previous studies. Finally, I find suggestive evidence that teachers implementing these kind of practices are also better at improving student non cognitive skills related to math learning, and that they are particularly efficient with female students.
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 30/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle E001, RDC Bâtiment E, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TRANNOY Alain ()
Land is back... and it should be taxed
écrit avec Odran BONNET, Guillaume CHAPELLE and Etienne WASMER
GSIELM (Graduate Students International Economics and Labor Market) Lunch Seminar
Du 30/01/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle S/19) 75013 Paris
PITON Sophie (PSE)
Economic Integration and the Non-tradable Sector: The European Experience
Abstract:
This article shows that not only market integration but also financial and monetary integration can affect the dynamics of the non-tradable sector. And if the non-tradable sector expands relative to the tradable sector, economic integration can lead to a transitory accumulation of current account deficits. Adapting a model of structural change for a small open economy with a tradable and a non-tradable sector, this paper shows that market and financial integration lead to a relative price increase which can result in a relative expansion of the non-tradable sector. Financial integration also fosters a temporary demand boom in peripheral economies, leading to an expansion of the non-tradable sector and an accumulation of current account deficits. Using a novel data set for 16 countries of the Euro area, this article documents the expansion of the non-tradable sector over 1996-2007 in the Euro area periphery --significant even when excluding the housing sector from the sample. This expansion happened simultaneoulsy to (i) faster productivity growth in the tradable sector than in the non-tradable sector (ii) declining long-term nominal interest rates. In Greece, the fall in the interest rate over 1996-2007 explains up to 13% of the expansion of the non-tradable sector, and together with the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) effect, these effects account up to 80% of its variations.
Régulation et Environnement
Du 30/01/2017 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
PITTEL Karen (IFO, Münich)
Thinking Local but Acting Global? The Interplay Between Local and Global Internalization of Externalities
The paper analyzes the long-run development of local and global pollution when two types of abatement
activities can be undertaken. One type reduces solely local pollution (e.g., use of particulate
matter filters) while the other mitigates global pollution as well (e.g., application of fuel saving
technologies). In the framework of a 2-country endogenous growth model, the implications
of different degrees to which global externality is internalized are
analyzed. We focus especially on local and global pollution levels and the effects on growth in both countries.
Furthermore we derive implications for optimal policies in the different scenarios.
EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 27/01/2017 de 11:00 à 12:30
MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle S18) 75013 Paris
CARBONNIER Clément (U. Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis, LED & Sciences Po, LIEPP)
Evaluation interdisciplinaire des impacts du CICE
Behavior seminar
Du 26/01/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment A, Rez de chaussée, Salle 2
CLARK Damon (University of California, Irvine)
What makes a successful life? The role of financial deprivation
Development Economics Seminar
Du 25/01/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle 8, Campus Jourdan, Bât G, rez-de-chaussée, 48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
RASUL Imran (UCL, IFS,BREAD & CEPR)
The Returns to Training in Low Income Labor Markets: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Model
écrit avec Livia Alfonsi [BRAC], Oriana Bandiera [LSE], Vittorio Bassi [UCL], Robin Burgess [LSE], Munshi Sulaiman [BRAC] and Anna Vitali [BRAC].
Texte intégral
Du 25/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
HURET Romain (EHESS/CENA)
Réunion du groupe
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 24/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Campus jourdan, Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 10
YANG David (Harvard University)
Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015
écrit avec Thomas Piketty, PSE, and Gabriel Zucman, UC Berkeley
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 24/01/2017 de 14:45 à 16:15
ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : GOGUEL
ANTRAS P. (Harvard)
*Globalization, Inequality and Welfare
écrit avec Alonso de Gortari and Oleg Itskhoki.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 24/01/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MARTNEZ-TOLEDANO Clara (PSE)
The distribution of wealth in Spain: Evidence from capitalized income tax data (1984-2013)
This paper combines different sources (income tax data, national accounts, wealth surveys) and the capitalization method in order to deliver consistent, unified wealth distribution series and their asset composition for Spain over the 1984-2013 period, with detailed breakdowns by age and gender over the 1999-2013 sub-period. My findings point out a moderate decrease in the top 10% wealth share from the mid-eighties until beginning of the 1990s, at the expense of the increase in both the middle 40% and the bottom 50% of the distribution. The top 10% wealth then starts to increase again, reaching a similar level to the mid-eighties in 2008, and then it stabilizes. The bulk in both housing and offshore wealth, together with rising inequality in rates of return and savings rates have pushed toward rising wealth concentration.
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 23/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Salle E101, RDC Bâtiment E, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BOMMIER Antoine (ETH Zürich)
Household Finance and the Value of Life
We analyze life-cycle saving strategies with a recursive model that is designed to provide reasonable positive values for the value of a statistical life. With a positive value of life, risk aversion amplifies the impact of uncertain survival on the discount rate, and thus reduces savings. Our model also predicts that risk aversion lowers stock market participation and leads to choose more conservative portfolios.
Régulation et Environnement
Du 23/01/2017 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle 10, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CANTILLON Estelle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Price formation in the European carbon market: The role of firm participation and risk management practices
écrit avec Aurélie Slechten, Lancaster Business School
A key argument in favor of emissions markets (relative to command-and-control types of regulation) is their ability to aggregate dispersed information about abatement costs and emissions and generate price signals to guide firms' trading and abatement decisions. We exploit trading data from the first phase of the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) to assess the extent to which this market was indeed able to deliver such price signals. We know who traded, when, with whom, on which platform if any, and at what price. Participation was partial, trading patterns differed across categories of market participants and the market was fragmented. We build a model of trading and information aggregation that integrates the salient features of the market and use it to explore their impact on the price formation process. Risk management practices and partial participation help account for some of the price anomalies that have been identified in the past on the basis of the analysis of price time series only.
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 20/01/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
Campus Jourdan - Bâtiment G - Salle 8 (48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
VANDEVELDE Senne (KU Leuven)
Agricultural Extension Video Messages and Farmer Knowledge: Evidence from Uganda
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 19/01/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
Salle 10, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ANDREESCU Marie(PSE)
ASKENAZY Philippe(PSE)
Democracy at work: A Study of the 2008 French Union Representativity Reform
écrit avec Philippe Askenazy
We evaluate the effects of a central French reform that made the conditions for firm-level union recognition more democratic after 2008. The law gave equal chances to all unions to be recognized for bargaining, putting an end to the quasi-monopoly given to five historical unions until then. The law also introduced votes and minimal electoral requirements for union recognition. These new regulations only became effective at the first firms' work councils elections following the promulgation of the law in August 2008. Those elections occur within each firm according to a pre-defined frequency-- usually every four years--, so that election dates around August 2008 only depend on former election dates, and can be considered as quasi-random with respect to the new law, at least in firms that are old enough. The identification thus relies on a regression discontinuity design in which the running variable is the firms' work councils election date: we compare in 2011 firms that had those elections just before or just after the law was passed. We find that the democratic rules introduced in 2008 increased social capital. Namely, both employers' and workers' satisfaction and trust towards unions are increased. Union coverage and membership are also increased. The study of other outcomes (conflicts and exits) is still in progress.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 19/01/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
TALLON Jean-Marc (PSE)
Asset Allocation and Trade under Heterogeneous Ambiguity Aversion
écrit avec with S. Mukerji and H. Ozsoylev
Abstract: We seek to explore several financial puzzles in a single model, that departs from basic portfolio choice models only in that it accomodates ambiguity and ambiguity sensitve preferences. The three anomalies are (1) the asset allocation puzzle wich is the observation that professionnals' recommandations for portfolio holdings do not accord well with the mutual fund theorem, (2) departures from CAPM pricing in a systematic way and (3) large volume of trade after public annoucement of earnings. We propose a model where investors have smooth ambiguity preferences and asset returns have ambiguous means. We show that investors optimally hold portfolio with a different mix of risky assets, due to their heterogeneous ambiguity aversion. This heterogeneity also leads, in an equilibrium model, to trade upon the arrival of public information (about the dividends).
Behavior seminar
Du 19/01/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Salle A2, RDC Bâtiment A, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CALVO-PARDO Hector (University of Southampton)
Informative social interactions
écrit avec Luc Arrondel, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Michael Haliassos
Football et sciences sociales : les footballeurs entre institutions et marchés
Du 18/01/2017 de 18:00 à 19:30
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment A, Rez de chaussée, Salle 4
ARCHAMBAULT Fabien ()
L'irrésistible ascension du football dans les sociétés contemporaines: quelques réflexions à partir du cas de l'Italie
Economic History Seminar
Du 18/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LEROUXEL Francois (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne)
ZURBACH Julien(ENS)
Le changement dans l'antiquité
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 17/01/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
HE Yinghua (Rice U)
Absence, Substitutability and Productivity: Evidence from Teachers
Worker absence is a frequent phenomenon but little is known on its effects on productivity or on organizations’ strategies to cope with this temporary disruptive event through substitute workers. Using a unique French administrative dataset on teacher absences and substitute teachers, the aim of this paper is (a) to estimate the effect of teacher absence on student achievement; (b) to analyze substitute teachers’ assignment policies both across schools and within school, across classrooms; (c) to study how the effect of teacher absence can be mitigated through the assignment and quality of substitute teachers.
Preliminary results suggest that the expected loss in daily productivity from teacher absences is on par with replacing an average teacher with one at the 15th percentile of the teacher value-added distribution. The effect on student test scores of the assignment of a tenured substitute teacher for a year is on par with replacing an average teacher with one at the 35th percentile. The effect of the assignment of a contract teacher for a year is on par with replacing an average teacher with a one at the second percentile. These results have major implications for educational inequality as contract teachers are mainly concentrated in disadvantaged areas.
NGOs, Development and Globalization
Du 17/01/2017
Salle 10, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
14:30-15:20 Sylvaine Poret (INRA-ALISS)
”Label Battles: Competition among NGOs as Standard Setters"
15:20-16:10 Thomas Davreux (PEFC Belgium)
”Forest certification schemes: competition, firms, and consumers”
16:10-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-17:30 Sebastian Krautheim (University of Passau)
”The International Organization of Production, Credence Goods and NGOs” with Philipp Herkenhoff (University of Munich)
Roy Seminar (ADRES)
Du 16/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
VIGIER Adrien (Oslo Business school)
Dynamic Bayesian Persuasion with Public News
écrit avec Jacopo Bizzotto et Jesper Rudiger
Régulation et Environnement
Du 16/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
MARTIMORT David(PjSE)
TOULEMON Léa()
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David MARTIMORT: Towards a Theory of the Precautionary Principle, joint with Louise Guillouet (Columbia) --
Lea TOULEMON: Regional Purchasing Groups and Hospital Medicine Prices: Evidence from Group Creations
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 12/01/2017 de 13:00 à 14:00
FLECKINGER Pierre (Ecole des Mines - PSE)
Game of Frauds
écrit avec T. Lafay and C. Monnier
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 12/01/2017 de 13:00 à 14:15
PROPPER Carol (Imperial College of London)
Management in the Public sector: Evidence from the English NHS
écrit avec Katharina Janke et Raffaella Sadun
Behavior seminar
Du 12/01/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment E, Rez de chaussée, Salle 101
ERISEN Cengiz (Université d'Economie et de Technologie de TOBB - Turquie)
Tolerance and perceived threat toward Muslim immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
écrit avec Cigdem Kentmen-Cin
Development Economics Seminar
Du 11/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
LAFAVE Daniel (Colby College)
*Are Rural Markets Complete? Prices, Profits, and Recursion
écrit avec Evan Peet (RAND), Duncan Thomas (Duke)
Economic History Seminar
Du 11/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TOUZERY Mireille (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne)
Les inégalités fiscales en France en 1789. Territoires et groupes sociaux : les chiffres et les cartes
Du 11/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
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WIP (Work in progress) Working Group
Du 11/01/2017 de 11:00 à 12:30
Salle de réunion CMH (1ère étage, bâtiment B) .
Céline Antonin (Precautionary savings of French households)
Laura Khoury (The impact of unemployment benefits on the timing of economic dismissals)
Alberto Prati (Hedonic Recall Bias. Why You Should Not Ask People How Much They Earn)
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 10/01/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Campus jourdan, Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 10
PETRONEVICH Anna ()
Dynamical Interaction Between Financial and Business Cycles
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 10/01/2017 de 14:45 à 16:15
ScPo, 28, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : H402
COSTINOT A. (MIT)
*Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity
écrit avec A. Rodriguez-Clare and I. Werning
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 10/01/2017 de 12:30 à 12:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BELLET Clément (Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam)
The Paradox of the Joneses: Superstar Houses and Mortgage Frenzy in American Suburbs
Despite a major upscaling of suburban houses over the last decades, average house satisfaction
has remained steady in the United States. I show that upward comparison in size can
explain this paradox, as top housing size mirrored the U-shaped pattern of top income inequality.
Combining data from the American Housing Survey from 1984 to 2009 with an original
dataset of three millions suburban houses built between 1920 and 2009, I find that suburban
owners who experienced a relative downscaling of their home due to the building of bigger units
in their suburb record lower satisfaction and housing values. These homeowners are more likely
to upscale and subscribe to extra mortgage loans. Results are robust to household fixed effects
and concentrated in counties with low levels of segregation, suggesting a causal link between
inequality and mortgage debt.
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 06/01/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
Campus jourdan, Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle F (réunion)
BERTELLI Olivia (DIAL)
Small but profitable. Quantifying returns to cattle value in rural Uganda
Behavior seminar
Du 05/01/2017 de 12:00 à 13:00
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment A, Rez de chaussée, Salle 2
YIN Rémi (PSE)
Impulsiveness, Situational Influences and Health Behaviors. Evidence from Evening and Night Work
Economic History Seminar
Du 04/01/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BROWNLEE Elliot (UC Santa Barbara)
The long-swings in American tax and fiscal policy from the colonial era to the present.
Du 03/01/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
Campus Jourdan - Salle 8
DELESALLE Esther (Univeristé de Cergy Pontoise)
Education Benefits and Labor Market Distribution of Universal Primary Education Program: Evidence from Tanzania
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 03/01/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
JARAVEL Xavier (Stanford University)
The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the US Retail Sector
Using detailed product-level data in the retail sector in the United States from 2004 to 2013, this paper shows that product innovations disproportionately benefited high-income households due to increasing inequality and the endogenous response of supply to market size. Annualized quality-adjusted inflation was 0.65 percentage points lower for high-income households, relative to low-income households. Using national and local changes in market size driven by demographic trends plausibly exogenous to supply factors, the paper provides causal evidence that a shock to the relative demand for goods (1) affects the direction of product innovations, and (2) leads to a decrease in the relative price of the good for which demand became relatively larger (i.e. the long-term supply curve is downward sloping). A calibration shows that this channel explains most of the observed difference in quality-adjusted inflation rates across the income distribution.