(October 2021) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !
Late height growth from historical individual-level panel data
Stéphane Gauthier*
It is difficult to say to what extent we can rely on the growth curves in our family health booklets to understand people’s growth patterns in the past. Uncertainty remains because sources that follow substantial numbers of children over a long period before the middle of the 20th century are rare. The proxy method, which consists of calculating averages...
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/3m3QTiX
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How laws change perceptions of norms: the case of lockdown
Roberto Galbiati, Emeric Henry, Nicolas Jacquemet*, Max Lobeck**
At the start of the Covid 19 vaccination campaign, public debate in France was largely focused on the risk of great resistance to it among the population, creating fears of significant difficulties in rolling out the vaccine in timely fashion. This kind of reasoning, which assesses the direct effect that new rules will have on behaviour, ignores that rules...
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/30InFxW
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How urgent spending needs can push workers in the developing world towards poorly paid self-employment
Thiago Scarelli**, David N. Margolis*
Own-account workers — those who have neither a firm to report to, nor an employee to coordinate with — constitute about 40% of all working individuals in low or middle income countries, a share that is five times larger than the average for high income countries. Moreover, own-account workers often earn less than employees, even when only looking at urban areas...
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/3vD2icE
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What are the Drivers of Public Procurement-Related Protection?
Anne-Célia Disdier*, Lionel Fontagné*, Enxhi Tresa
Public procurement, which represents 14% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the European Union (EU) and 10% in the United States (US) (1), is notoriously home-biased, possibly even twice as home-biased as private purchases. There are good reasons for such bias. One is the complexity of procedures and decision levels...
- Short link to this article: https://bit.ly/3ptDx1O
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Modelling the number of avoidable new cancer cases in France attributable to alcohol consumption by following official recommendations: a simulation study
Yan Ren, Earl Chase, Tania d’Almeida, Julien Allègre, Paule Latino-Martel, Valérie Deschamps, Pierre Arwidson, Fabrice Etilé*, Serge Hercberg, Mathilde Touvier, Chantal Julia
Although alcohol consumption has decreased by 50% in France since the World War II, it remains central in French food culture and practices. France currently ranks sixth among OECD countries for total alcohol consumption per capita. Alcohol is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, through diseases, accidents and violence leading to premature death...
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* PSE Professors
** PSE Doctoral Students
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