Calendrier du mois de septembre 2024
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| (du 2024-06-10 au 2024-06-17) | (du 2024-06-17 au 2024-06-23) | (du 2024-06-23 au 2024-06-30) |
Semaine du 2024-06-17 au 2024-06-23 |
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 21/06/2024 de 13:00 à 15:00
R1-15
BARBETA MARGARIT Anna(PSE)
BHERING Davi(PSE)
Matrilocality and Support Systems in Rural Malawi
Du 20/06/2024 de 16:00 à 17:15
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 20/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R1-15
EBLE Alex (Columbia University)
How Gender Shapes the Career Impacts of Network Shocks: Evidence from Academic Science
Professional advancement often comes through personal connections. This study analyzes how gender persistently shapes the career benefits workers enjoy from positive shocks to their network of connections. We follow mid-career academic scientists in China who compete to serve temporarily on a major scientific funding body. This role brings substantial opportunities to expand their personal networks, partly through increased interactions with senior scientists who are gatekeepers of research funding. Specifically, we estimate how service affects career advancement differentially by gender over time. For males, service is linked to a 56 percent increase in high-stakes, high-value grants awarded, a doubling of the likelihood of promotion, and a significant increase in the likelihood of becoming a gatekeeper with whom subsequent scholars choose to network. In contrast, females experience no gains. This disparity appears to flow primarily through an expansion to the professional networks of male but not female scientists. Notably, the benefits of service are more comparable when female scientists have more opportunities to network with senior female scientists. These findings help explain the persistence of gender inequality in senior roles in science and other historically male-dominated fields.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 20/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2-20
SERRANO Roberto(Brown University)
SERRANO ROBERTO (Brown University)
Mediated (Anti)Persuasive Communication
écrit avec Zeky Murra-Anton
Can private information or mediation change a sender’s behavior and im-
prove the receiver’s expected utility in persuasive communication games? In a
mediated Bayesian persuasion model, private information cannot improve the
receiver’s expected utility when the sender communicates it. When the inter-
mediary communicates the private information, the receiver’s expected utility
improves only with a positive autarky value of the intermediary’s private infor-
mation (AVIPI), a novel information accuracy measure we propose. Finally, the
sender’s strategic behavior is generally affected by the intermediary’s presence
as he tries to persuade the intermediary to, in turn, persuade the receiver
Behavior seminar
Du 20/06/2024 de 11:00 à 12:00
ZOOM
ZIMMERMANN Florian (Briq and the University of Bonn) *;
La séance est annulée
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 20/06/2024
FUCHS-SCHüNDELN Nicola (Frankfurt)
International Macroeconomics Chair Lecture
Du 19/06/2024 de 16:00 à 17:30
R2.20
DEMILLY DAVID (CRED (Paris Panthéon Assas & Banque de France ))
An illusory feeling of stability: bank instability and monetary regime in France in the 1920s
co-auteur de Pierre labardin
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 19/06/2024 de 16:00 à 17:30
R2-21
DEMILLY DAVID (CRED (Paris Panthéon Assas & Banque de France ))
An illusory feeling of stability: bank instability and monetary regime in France in the 1920s
Economic History Seminar
Du 19/06/2024 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.15
KOEHLER-DERRICK Gabriel ()
Religious Sacraments and Local Development: Evidence from Colonial Ireland
In this paper we introduce an important corollary to the widely accepted claim that the prevalence of certain religious institutions drives economic development: the repression of religious institutions can inhibit local levels of development. We test this claim in colonial Ireland, where a series of laws, known collectively as the Penal Laws, suppressed the Catholic Church and everyday religious practice for more than 150 years. Building on insights from demography on the importance of age heaping, we introduce a novel measure, “spousal heaping,” that records the coincidence of a husband and wife reporting a heaped age, and using the full 1901 population census show that Catholic spouses were far more likely to report heaped ages than non-Catholics. We argue that disparities in spousal heaping were driven by the active repression of Catholic priests who played a key role in administering two sacraments: baptism and confirmation, which dramatically reduced the prevalence of recorded ages for Catholics, but not Protestants, until the introduction of the Civil Registry in 1864.
Du 18/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-20
TARTOVA DESISLAVA Desislava ()
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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 18/06/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2.20
GABRIELLI Maria Valentina (PSE, ENPC)
Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America
This paper presents the first cross-country analysis of intergenerational economic mobility in Latin America. I exploit information on self-reported economic status for respondents and their parents, from an untapped dataset covering individuals born in 1940 to 1990 in 18 Latin American countries. In line with previous studies, the average intergenerational elasticity in the region is 0.66, indicating a strong intergenerational persistence of economic status. However, I find substantial country heterogeneities in terms of absolute and relative mobility across the countries in the sample. Richer countries are more likely to be more mobile. Furthermore, I show evidence of a decrease in both absolute and relative mobility across cohorts for most countries in the sample. From a public policy perspective, it is worrying that intergenerational mobility is low and that it has been decreasing over time because this implies the deepening of unequal opportunities. These findings, from a previously unused data source, point to new directions for future research.
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 18/06/2024 de 10:00 à 11:00
R2-20
BHERING Davi (PSE)
Offshore Operations: Unveiling the Firm-Owner Connection
Econometrics Seminar
Du 17/06/2024 de 16:15 à 17:30
Sciences Po, room H405
RAMBACHAN Ashesh (MIT)
From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies
écrit avec Co-author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Machine learning algorithms can find predictive signals that researchers fail to notice; yet they are notoriously hard-to-interpret. How can we extract theoretical insights from these black boxes? History provides a clue. Facing a similar problem -- how to extract theoretical insights from their intuitions -- researchers often turned to ``anomalies:'' constructed examples that highlight flaws in an existing theory and spur the development of new ones. Canonical examples include the Allais paradox and the Kahneman-Tversky choice experiments for expected utility theory. We suggest anomalies can extract theoretical insights from black box predictive algorithms. We develop procedures to automatically generate anomalies for an existing theory when given a predictive algorithm. We cast anomaly generation as an adversarial game between a theory and a falsifier, the solutions to which are anomalies: instances where the black box algorithm predicts - were we to collect data - we would likely observe violations of the theory. As an illustration, we generate anomalies for expected utility theory using a large, publicly available dataset on real lottery choices. Based on an estimated neural network that predicts lottery choices, our procedures recover known anomalies and discover new ones for expected utility theory. In incentivized experiments, subjects violate expected utility theory on these algorithmically generated anomalies; moreover, the violation rates are similar to observed rates for the Allais paradox and Common ratio effect.
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