Calendrier du mois de juillet 2018
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 12/07/2018
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
PIGUILLEM Facundo (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
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brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 05/07/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
BRIOLE Simon (Paris School of Economics)
Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
écrit avec Co-author: Eric Maurin
In France, secondary school teachers are externally evaluated at regular intervals by senior officers of the national education. These external evaluations have a very direct impact on teachers’ career advancement. Besides, evaluators provide teachers with detailed feedback on the quality of their work. In this paper, we show that the external evaluation of a teacher is followed by a significant increase in the performance of her students. We also provide evidence that student performance in a district is positively affected by an increase in the number of evaluators assigned to this district. Generally speaking, the effects of external evaluation appear to be much stronger for math teachers than for French teachers.
Economic History Seminar
Du 04/07/2018 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R6-60, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
NEAL Larry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A case study of how modern finance emerged in the crucible of war, 1789-1815
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 03/07/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MACOURS Karen (PSE & CEPR)
Young Women’s Labor Market and Fertility Outcomes 10 years after a CCT
écrit avec Tania Barham, John Maluccio
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are some of the most popular policy instruments to increase investment in nutrition, health, and education in developing countries. The principal motivation underlying CCTs has implicitly and often explicitly been that investment in human capital will help improve the lives of the poor in the longer term, with the expectation that it can lead to higher income generating potential in adulthood for beneficiary children. Whether and how such potential materializes remains an open question. For girls of school-going ages, CCT do not only provided incentives and means to stay in school longer, but also may affect fertility outcomes through improved nutrition (with implications for the onset of puberty). Understanding the later mechanism is important, as young women’s decisions regarding economic and reproductive activities tend to be closely intertwined. This paper exploits an experimental design and a 10-year tracking survey for a CCT program in Nicaragua that introduced random variation in the age of exposure that allows isolating the fertility mechanism. For a cohort of 9 to 12 year old girls, the variation in age of exposure does not lead to differences in educational outcomes, but leads to differential impacts on fertility, and subsequent long-term labor market outcomes and income. While the differential impacts are modest, they suggest that health and nutrition components of CCT programs are important to account for when analyzing long-term impacts on labor market outcomes.