Economics serving society

(May-June) 5 papers... 5 minutes

May 2016

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Financing infrastructure in developing countries - Antonio Estache, Tomas Serebrisky and Liam Wren-Lewis
Estimates suggest that developing economies need US$1.5 trillion of infrastructure investments per year to generate sustained growth and poverty reduction. Yet the OECD estimates that these countries only spend currently about US$800–900 billion...
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Incentives for Quality in Friendly and Hostile Informational Environment - Pierre Fleckinger, Matthieu Glachant and Gabrielle Moineville
What most motivates an employee of a firm: recognition of her success, or the risk of having her bad performances widely known? Do political leaders have the same incentive to serve the common good when the press is mostly hostile to them and denounces their failures, or when it celebrates their successes and passes over their thorny issues in silence ?...
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Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method- Fabrizio Coricelli
For the first time since it was created, the European Union, which has known continuous growth, is at risk of losing one of its members, with the Brexit referendum. Debate about the costs and benefits of participation in the EU is generally ideological and unfortunately ...
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Short and long-term impacts of famines. The case of the siege of Paris, 1870-1871 -Denis Cogneau and Lionel Kesztenbaum.
It is well known that food has an impact on health, but the question persists as to how and for how long. The first years of life are considered critical: nourishment received during infancy and in the womb determines the physical growth and the cognitive capacities of the child; insufficient nutrition can entail irreparable damage...
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A network-based analysis of the European Emission Market - Andreas Karpf, Antoine Mandel and Stefano Battiston.
The European emissions trading scheme, the “carbon market”, offers a rare opportunity to observe in vivo the micro-economic functioning of a market. Indeed, each transaction on this market must be declared to the European Commission ...
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June 2016

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Parents’ education and child body weight in France: The trajectory of the gradient in the early years- Bénédicte H. Apouey and Pierre-Yves Geoffard
In 2010, around 15 per cent of children in France were overweight or obese. Given that being overweight reduces quality of life in the short-term and can have serious consequences for adult health (including diabetes and cardiovascular disease), it seems important to identify the causes well. Recent work has brought to light the “protective” role of the socio-economic status (SES) of parents...
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Undoing Gender with Institutions. Lessons from the German Division and Reunification - Quentin Lippmann, Alexandre Georgieff and Claudia Senik.
In all developed countries, women are less present than men in the labour market; they receive lower salaries than men, occupy fewer positions of power and yet, they do more hours of housework. These inequalities have been significantly reduced over the past century, but have not entirely disappeared....
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Evaluating the Law of One Price Using Micro Panel Data: the case of the French fish Market - Laurent Gobillon and François-Charles Wolff
Economists have long questioned the validity of the law of one price, which stipulates that in a market of perfect competition, identical goods should be sold for the same price. It is possible that in reality, this law is not verified because there are “imperfections” due to local rationing problems, limited information about available goods for sale, or costs of displacement....
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Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing- Andrew Clark and Elena Stancanelli
Few studies have attempted to quantify the socio-economic costs of terrorism for regions and countries that have long been exposed to terrorist attacks, such as Israel, Ireland and the Basque countries (1). Some have demonstrated the significant negative consequences on local economic activity...
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Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? - Eve Caroli and Mathilde Godard.
he current period is marked by a growing sentiment of job insecurity in many countries, linked especially to a significant turnover of staff, often presented as a factor in productivity. But what is the impact of that insecurity on the health of employees?...
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