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Job Market Seminar
Du 12/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-01
BREY Bjorn (University of Oxford)
The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany
Friday, January 12th, R2-01, 12.30pm-1.45pm
Development; Growth; Economic History; International Trade; Political Economy
"The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany"
Bjorn BREY (University of Oxford)
Behavior Working Group
Du 12/01/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
MSE Salle 114
SCHÜTZ Rafael ()
The limits to universalism
Surveys, ballot measures, donations, and consumer spending alike reveal a growing concern for the welfare of animals. What is driving this phenomenon? Does it follow a general shift toward more universalist attitudes, or are social preferences for humans and animals substitutes? I propose a representative survey experiment to measure the distribution, interdependence, and determinants of universalist attitudes toward various human or animal out-groups. Attitudes would be elicited in two ways: (1) via previously validated hypothetical money allocation tasks between an in-group member and an out-group representative; (2) by allowing respondents to make donations to NGOs that focus on a specific out-group. Subjects would be randomly exposed to a narrative about a direct, positive interaction between an in-group member and an out-group member. This would allow to study the role of perceived distance to the out-group in shaping other-regarding preferences
Du 11/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:45
R2-21
BAGAGLI Sara ()
The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago
Thursday, January 11th, R2-21, 12.30pm-1.45pm
International Trade; Public Economics; Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago
Sara BAGAGLI (Harvard University)
Economic History Seminar
Du 10/01/2024 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09
MONTALBO Adrien(SUSSEX)
MONTALBO Adrien(SUSSEX)
The Economic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century France
In spite of a vast medical literature investigating the impact of socio-economic factors on vaccine uptake and of a growing literature in economic history focusing mostly on the consequences of epidemics, little is known about vaccine hesitancy the drivers of vaccination in the long run. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by focusing on vaccination against smallpox in nineteenth-century France. Smallpox was one the deadliest disease up until the introduction of vaccination in the nineteenth century, as it is estimated to have killed between 50,000 and 80,000 persons per year in France during the eighteenth century. To study the determinants of vaccination, we collected precise data on the number of children vaccinated each year within French departments between 1806 and 1888. By using wheat prices instrumented by rainfall and the phylloxera crisis as an exogenous source of income variation, we find that negative income shocks were linked to an increase in vaccination in France during the nineteenth century. These outcomes indicate that families reacted to negative shocks by vaccinating their children more often. This counter-intuitive result can be explained by the fact that parents chose to vaccinate their children when their existence was threatened by negative income shocks. Our results also indicate that the positive effect of negative income shocks on vaccination was stronger in department where child labour was more common. In areas where families depended more strongly on the income of children, the death of a child represented a stronger shock on the total income of the household. Families were therefore more willing to protect their children when their life was put at risk by negative income shocks within these departments.
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 09/01/2024 de 17:00 à 18:00
LEPAULT Claire (PSE)
Is Urban Wastewater Treatment Effective in India? Evidence from Water Quality and Infant Mortality
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 09/01/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
SILVE Arthur (Université Laval)
The end of slavery in Brazil: Escape and resistance on the road to freedom
A longstanding debate opposes two mechanisms by which labor coercion persists or changes to free labor: a labor demand effect, by which the elite coerces labor when supply is scarce, and an outside option effect, by which labor scarcity and better outside options for the workers undermine coercive arrangements. Using a novel data set of roll-call votes on 1884-1888 emancipation bills in the Brazilian legislature, we find that both mechanisms played a role in building the coalition that eventually abolished slavery.