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Figure | Cities and urbanization | Julia Paul-Venturine

In 2020, 17 million people in France were exposed to flooding from overflowing rivers and 1.4 million to the risk of marine submersion*. In a context of population and housing growth, the challenge of limiting their exposure in concerned areas (...)

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Call for applications for the Economics of International Migration Chair | 4th year of PhD funding

Presentation of the Chair The Edmond de Rothschild Group and the Paris School of Economics have created the Economics of International Migration Chair to develop research activities aimed at improving knowledge of international migration. The (...)

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Dan XIE joins PSE as a post-doctoral fellow in September 2023 as part of the Globalization Chair

By the end of 2023, Dan Xie will defend a PhD in economics at the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London, under the supervision of Alessandra Bonfiglioli. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from Queen Mary (...)

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Infographic | Do place-based policies provide real opportunities for the residents of low-income neighborhoods? | M. Garrouste and M. Lafourcade

This infographic shows the negative and stigmatizing effects of implementing policies based on a “priority geography” in the field of education. It is based on the work of Manon Garrouste, maître de conférences at the Université de Lille, and Miren (...)

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« Un empire bon marché. Histoire et économie politique de la colonisation française, XIXe-XXIe siècle », Denis Cogneau

In his latest book, Denis Cogneau reviews fifteen years of statistical and economic research on French colonisation. Find the page dedicated to the book on the website of Seuil Editions. Extract from the back cover: Summary In the 19th (...)

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2023 AFSE PhD Prize - Award and special mentions

The 2023 AFSE PhD Prize has been awarded to Mathilde Munoz (PhD 2022), post-doctoral fellow at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California, Berkeley and the special mentions have been (...)

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Graph | When urban density does not bring about productivity: the role of air pollution | P. Champalaune

Dense cities are considered both “greener” since they would emit less CO2 per capita and more productive, since they would allow agglomeration economies (infrastructure sharing, technological spillovers...). However, urban density also induces (...)

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World development report 2023 | 24 May

The International migration economics Chair is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the World development report 2023 entitled “Migrants, refugees and societies” by Çağlar Özden, lead economist at the World Bank and one of the three editors (...)

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Podcast | Cities and social cohesion | Camille Hémet

For this fifth podcast of Economics for everybody, Camille Hémet, professor at the Paris School of Economics and at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, defines the notion of social cohesion and how it is an issue for cities. She explains (...)

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Workshop 10th anniversary E&P Master | June 15

The Master in Economics and Psychology has been jointly created in 2012 by the economics department of the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the psychology department of Université Paris Cité. Since 2016, research-oriented training in the (...)

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