Research themes
  • Demography and Household Economics
  • Labour Markets
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I am an applied micro-economist. My research interests are in the area of applied household economics, with special focus on gender and time allocation. In particular, I have studied couples’ allocation of time to household work and leisure time at retirement; the impact of different forms of income taxation on household time uses; and the labour supply of couples in which the wife outearns the husband; as well as the decision to work from home.  Another stream of my research focuses on behavioral  impacts of conflict economics.

Every year,  since June 2023 I am the coordinator and organizer of the Summer School on the Economics of Gender at the Paris School of Economics, which is attended by many excellent French and international postgraduated students and junior colleagues from academia and international organizations.

I am a lifetime member of the Executive Committee of the Society of the Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO), and I was the first SEHO President elect (2017-19). SEHO was founded in 2017 by Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) and counts over 500 members in 40 countries, spanning all continents.  I organized the 2018 annual meeting of SEHO the Paris-School-of-Economics and co-organized the 2021 annual meeting of SEHO at Boston University (which took place virtually), as well as the first SEHO session at the 2025 annual meetings of the American Economic Association (AEA) in San Francisco. I am SEHO AEA Conference Director and Officer.

I am the coordinator of GEPINC Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change, an EU HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-01 funded project, 2025-2027.

I coordinate the research  project WHIN Work from Home and household INequality in labour supply and other uses of time, funded by the French National Research Agency ANR, 2024-2029. This project hinges on my 2021 & 2023 ERC Advanced Applications, as well as my 2023 ANR proposal, and several papers are ongoing, including new behavioural experimental interventions.

Under submission:
  • Gender norms and partners’ joint retirement decisions: learning from a Norwegian reform, coauthoredby Bernt Bratsberg (Frisch Center Olso)
  • British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York
Work in Progress:
  •  Who does the chores when s/he Works from Home?, coauthored by Claudia Senik (PSE)
  • Crime, Terrorism, and Policing
Forthcoming:
  • Consumption at retirement Consumption-at-Retirement, Elgar Encyclopedia of Consumption, Edited by José M. Labeaga and José Alberto Molina, coauthored by Nicolas Moreau (Saint Denis Reunion University).
Just came out:

GEPINC:  Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change 

I am in the Top 5% Women in Economics in REPEC.

 I have supervised many doctoral students and acted as Thesis Comittee President/Member and Thesis Referee of  several other doctoral students in France and abroad, as well as Habilitation (hdR) Committees  of many junior colleagues. I have also sitted in institutional doctoral programs abroad.  I have supervised numerous master dissertations. All my students  are doing great in the job market.  (See dedicated pages on this website for more information).

 

 Recent publications

Older mothers’ employment and marriage stability when the nest is emptyoldermothers-final.pdf with  Hippolyte d’Albis and Karina Doorley, Chapter in “Mothers in the Labor Market”, edited by Alberto J. Molina, Springer, 2022.

Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data“, with Thierry Verdier and Daniel Mirza, Economics and Human Biology, August 2022.

A tale of hours worked for pay from home before and after the Great Recession: learning from high-frequency diaries, with Arie Kapteyn (University of South California, Los Angeles), Vox EU, April 2021. https://voxeu.org/article/tale-hours-worked-pay-home-and-after-great-recession-learning-high-frequency-diaries

 The Impact of Terrorism on Individual Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing, with Orla Doyle and Andrew Clark, The Economic Journal,  2020, 130 (631),  2065–2104 boston-marathon_final_revised_61218.pdf

 Women’s Employment, Wages and the Household, with Elisabeth Dolan (University of New Hampshire), Journal of Family and Economic Issues, supplement issue “Decade in Review 2010-19”,  2021, 42, 101-106.

Citations to my work:

https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=-JTusdgAAAAJ&hl=en

Press  articles:

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/01/06/reforme-des-retraites-et-si-nous-laissions-aux-seniors-francais-le-choix-de-l-age-de-leur-depart-entre-62-et-67-ans_6156870_3232.html

 https://voxeu.org/article/tale-hours-worked-pay-home-and-after-great-recession-learning-high-frequency-diaries

https://www.pressreader.com/france/madame-figaro/20210205/281560883478133

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/07/05/les-retraites-auraient-genere-environ-8-du-pib-francais-en-2018_5485726_3232.html

http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Se-saisir-des-attentats.html

http://www.slate.fr/source/139856/elena-stancanelli

http://voxeu.org/article/well-being-and-economic-activity-after-boston-marathon-bombing

http://www.voxeu.org/article/americans-work-long-and-strange-times

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/10/08/till-death-do-us-part-no-way-gray-divorce-on-the-rise/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/10/31/feel-like-a-work-zombie-youre-not-alone-heres-10-things-that-will-help/?utm_term=.0969805b9ff9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/08/nearly-one-third-of-the-american-labor-force-works-on-the-weekend/?utm_term=.609f63587752

 


 

PhD in economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 1990-1994.  

Awarded 19 September 1994.  

Title: “The Probability of Leaving Unemployment: Some New Evidence for the UK”.  

Supervisor:  John Micklewright (PhD LSE).

Co-supervisor: Robert Waldmann (PhD Harvard)

Jury external members:  Geert Ridder ; Jules Theeuwes; Ugo Trivellato.

 

« Habilitation à diriger de Recherches » (Higher Degree similar to the German Habilitation) in economics, University Paris 1 Sorbonne Panthéon, awarded 26 October 2007.

 

Master (M. A.) in economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 1988-1989. 

 

First Degree in Economics and Business, University of Genoa, Italy, 1983-1988.

 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

 “Directrice de Recherche” CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) , Paris Jourdan Sciences Economique & Professor Paris School of Economics, Sept. 2016-  

PAST EMPLOYMENT

-“Directrice de recherche” CNRS, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris & Paris School of Economics,  Sept. 2014-2015.

-CNRS researcher, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, University Paris & Paris School of Economics, Sept. 2012-2014.

 -CNRS researcher, THEMA,  Univ. Cergy-Pontoise Sept. 2008-2012 .

-CNRS researcher, GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis, Nice Univ.,  2005-08 .

-Deputee Director, Forecasting Unit, OFCE, Sciences-Po, Paris, Oct. 02-Oct 05. 

-Economist (Economist Grade A3), DELSA, OECD, Paris, October 1997-October 2002. 

-Postdoc, Social Security Studies, Tilburg University, NL, June 1995- 97.

-Postdoc, CLS, Aarhus, Denmark, March 1997-September 1997.  

-Assistant Professor, Economics, Univ.  Genoa, Italy, 1994 –1995. 

-Postdoc, Free University of Amsterdam, Dec. 1993- Dec. 1994. 

-Associate Researcher, IER , Univ. Warwick, UK, 1989- 90.

-Research assistant, IRES, Genoa, Italy, 1985-1987.

 

PUBLICATIONS


Household time allocation and labour supply  papers:

Couples’ Retirement under Individual Pension Design: a Regression Discontinuity Study for France”, Labour Economics,  2017. [doc5243].  Only author.

“Partners’ Leisure Time Truly Together Upon Retirement”,  with Arthur van Soest, IZA Journal of Labor Policy,  June 2016  retirement-leisure-stancanelli-van-soest-mars-14.pdf

“Long Workweeks and Strange Hours”, with Daniel Hamermesh, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cornell University Press, 2015, Vol. 68, No. 5,  1007-1018.  paper.pdf;

 “Household Consumption at Retirement: a Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data”, with Nicolas Moreau, Annales d’Economie et Statistique, special issue on the economics of gender, 2015, Vol. 115-117, 253-276.


 “Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity approach”, with Arthur Van Soest, American Economic Review,  May, 2012, Vol 102 (3), pp. 600-605. paper.pdf
 

“Toyboys or Supergirls ? An  analysis of partners’ employment outcomes when she outearns him”, with Hans Bloemen, Review of the Economics of the Household, 2015, ,13 (3), 501-530. paper.pdf


 “Income taxation, labour supply and housework: a discrete choice model for French couples”, with Arthur Van Soest and Jan Kabatek,  Labour Economics, 2014, Vol. 27, pp. 30-43. paper.pdf

” Maids, Appliances and Couples’ Housework: The Demand for Inputs to Domestic Production”, with Leslie Stratton, 2014,  Economica, Vol.81, pp. 445-467.  paper.pdf

“How do parents allocate time: the effects of wages and income” (2013), with Hans Bloemen, Review of the Economics of the Household,  2014, Vol.2 (1), pp 51-81. paper.pdf 

 “Individual and Household Time Allocation: Market Work, Household Work, and Parental Time”, with Olivier Donni and Robert A. Pollak, Annales d’Economie et Statistique, January-June, 2012, Vol. 105-106, pp. 5-15.

“Whose time? Who saves? Introduction to a special issue on couples’ savings, time use and children”, with Shoshana Grossbard, Review of the Economics of the Household,  volume  8(3), August 2010, pp. 289-296.

“An empirical analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: are they irresponsive”, Review of the Economics of the Household, with Hans Bloemen and Silvia Pasqua, volume  8 (3), 2010, pp. 345-369. 
 

Other household economics papers:

Women’s Employment, Wages and the Household, with Elisabeth Dolan (University of New Hampshire), Journal of Family and Economic Issues, supplement issue “Decade in Review 2010-19”,  2021, 42, 101-106.

 

Older mothers’ employment and marriage stability when the nest is empty, with Hyppolite d’Albis (Paris School of Economics & CNRS) and Karina Doorley (ESRI, Dublin), forthcoming in “Mothers in the Labor Market”, Springer, Alberto Molina editor, 2022.

 

 L’effet du passage à la retraite sur l’emploi du temps des retraités. with Nicolas Moreau,  Annali, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2022.

La vie des couples apres la retraite temps partages et contraintes economiques, with Nicolas Moreau, Opuscules du Cepremap, Paris 2019.  https://www.cepremap.fr/publications/la-vie-des-couples-apres-la-retraite-temps-partages-et-contraintes-economiques/

 

 “How to Reduce the Costs of Institutional Long-Term Care while Monitoring its Quality? Focus on Family and Portable Allowances”, IZA World of Labor, 2015, August, 1-10 paper


 “Do children of the first marriage deter divorce?”, with Héctor Bellido, José Alberto Molina, and Anne Solaz, Economic Modelling, 2016, , 55, pp.15-31.paper

 “Evaluating the impact of the French Tax Credit on the employment rate of women”, Journal of Public Economics, October 2008, Vol. 92, No. 10-11,3 pp. 2036-47. paper.pdf  Only author.

 

 

Economics of Conflict:

“Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data”, food-responses-bataclan-revised-no-highlights-.pdf

with Thierry Verdier and Daniel Mirza, Economics and Human Biology, 2022, August.

 

“The Impact of Terrorism on Individual Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing”, with Andrew Clark & Orla Doyle, The Economic Journal,  2020, 130 (631),  2065–2104.boston-marathon_july-13.pdf

 

Job search  papers:

“Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power”, Annales d’Economie et Statistique, with Peter Rupert and Etienne Wasmer, 2009, no. 95/96, pp. 201-220.  

“Individual Wealth, Reservation Wages, and Transitions into Employment”, with Hans Bloemen, Journal of Labor Economics,  Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2001, pp. 400-439.paper.pdf


“Financial Wealth, Consumption Smoothing, and Income Shocks due to Job Loss”, with Hans Bloemen, Economica, August 2005, Vol. 72, pp. 431-452.


 “Do the Wealthier Stay Unemployed Longer? An Empirical Study for the UK”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 3, August 1999, pp. 295-314.


 “Unemployment Duration and the Duration of Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits: an Empirical Study for Britain”, Applied Economics, No. 31, 1999, pp.1043-1051.

 “Unemployment Compensation Schemes and Unemployment Duration”, Applied Economics Letters, No 7, 1998.  

 


 


WEB AND NEWSPAPERS

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/01/06/reforme-des-retraites-et-si-nous-laissions-aux-seniors-francais-le-choix-de-l-age-de-leur-depart-entre-62-et-67-ans_6156870_3232.html

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/tale-hours-worked-pay-home-and-after-great-recession-learning-high-frequency-diaries

http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Se-saisir-des-attentats.html

http://www.slate.fr/source/139856/elena-stancanelli

http://voxeu.org/article/well-being-and-economic-activity-after-boston-marathon-bombing

http://www.voxeu.org/article/americans-work-long-and-strange-times

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/10/08/till-death-do-us-part-no-way-gray-divorce-on-the-rise/

-Salaires, régime d’imposition et répartition des tâches domestiques, La Vie des Idees, mars 2009

-Entretien avec Elena STANCANELLI Chercheur CNRS, Université de Cergy Pontoise, sur la prime pour l’emploi, septembre 2008, le site des sciences economiques et sociales,  ENS Lyon, Les Grands Dossiers.

-Japon soleil tournant, Alternatives Economiques, Septembre 2005


PUBLICATIONS IN FRENCH, ITALIAN, DUTCH (revues à comité de lecture)

-“L’impact d’allocation au chomage sur la probabilite de reemploi: de nouveaux resultats pour le Royaume Uni”, Economie et Prévision, 1997-1.
-Een flexibele baan: Opstap naar een vaste baan of eindstation? with Ruud Muffels and Ronald Dekker, Sociale Wetenschappen, 42(2), 43-66, 1999.
-“Fiscale prikkels and onderwijsparticipatie”, with Jan Nelissen, Maandschrift Economie, 61 (3), 1997.
-“La probabilita di reimpiego del disoccupato: modelli di rischio singolo e di rischi competitivi”, Quaderni di Economia del Lavoro, 46, 1993, ed. Franco Angeli, Milano.
-“The aggregate investment function: an empirical estimate for the Italian economy”, Rivista di Economia Internazionale, 2, 1991.
-“Le couples sur le marché de l’emploi, Revue de l’OFCE, 2006-04, No. 99, pp.235-272.
-Japon : Soleil Couchant», Revue de l’OFCE, No. 93,  2005/2, pp. 142-145.
-“Un Bilan des études sur la Prime Pour l’Emploi”, avec Henri Sterdyniak, Revue de l’OFCE, No. 88, janvier 2004, pp. 17-41.
-Japon : la Reprise», Revue de l’OFCE, No. 95,  2005/4, pp. 120-123.
-Japon : la Reprise s’essouffle», Revue de l’OFCE, No. 91,  2004/4, pp. 106-109.
-Japon : la Renaissance», Revue de l’OFCE, No. 89,  2004/2, pp. 102-105.
-Japon : l’économie réelle l’importe sur les prix », Revue de l’OFCE, No. 87, 2003/4, pp. 114-117.
-Japon: une croissance douteuse?, Revue de l’OFCE, No.85, pp. 116-119, 2003/2.
-«L’axe de la croissance : perspectives 2005-06 pour l’économie mondiale », Revue de l’OFCE, No. 93,  2005/2.

BOOKS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS/VOLUMES (ouvrages)
-« Temps de trajet au sein des couples », Robert A. Pollak et Elena Stancanelli, published in « Trajets et mobilité des ménages : choix individuels et collectifs », PREDIT,  juillet 2012, http://www.predit.prd.fr/predit4/document/43691
-« Pressions dominées : perspectives 2004-05 pour l’économie mondiale », Revue de l’OFCE, No. 91,  2004/4.
-« Un monde presque parfait : perspectives 2004-05 pour l’économie mondiale », Revue de l’OFCE, No. 89,  2004/2.
-« Les infortunes de la vertu : perspectives 2003-04 pour l’économie mondiale », Revue de l’OFCE, No. 87,  2003/4.
-« La traversée du desert : perspectives 2003-04 pour l’économie mondiale » Revue de l’OFCE, No. 85,  2003/2.
 -“A longitudinal analysis of part-time work by women and men in the Netherlands”, Chapter 12, in “Gender and the labour Market”, ed. Siv Gustafsson and Daniele Meulders, MacMillan publishers, 2000, co-authored by Ronald Dekker and Ruud Muffels.
-“Transitions between different working-time arrangements: a comparison of Sweden and the Netherlands”, Chapter 4, in “Working-Time Changes”, edited by Jacqueline O Reilly, Immaculada Cebrian and Michel Lallement, Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.  Northampton, Massachussets, USA, 2000, co-authored by Dominique Anxo and Donald Storrie.
-“Transitional Labour Markets and the Household: a Policy Note”, in “New Institutional Arrangements in the Labour Market”, EA.UE and WZB, Berlin, March 1998, pp. 54-61.
-“La Dimension Genre dans la libéralisation économique de la Tunisie » Programme des Nations Unis pour le Développement, Tunis, Tunisie, décembre 2003.
-“Temporary Employment: Characteristics, Benefits and Dynamics, Chapter 3, Employment Outlook, June 2002, OECD
-“Balancing Work and Family Life: Helping Parents into Paid Employment”, Chapter 4, Employment Outlook, June 2001, OECD, pp. 129-162.
-“Pushing ahead with the reform in Korea, July 2000, OECD
-“Training of Adult Workers in OECD Countries: Measurement and Analysis”, Chapter 3, Employment Outlook, June 1999, OECD.
-“Making the Most of the Minumum: Statutory Minimum Wages, Employment and Poverty”, Chapter 2, Employment Outlook, June 1998, OECD


 

 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
-Associate Editor (member of the associated editor board) “Review of the Economics of the Household”. https://link.springer.com/journal/11150

 

 -Associate Editor (member of the associated editor board) “Journal of Family and Economic Issues”, 2010-2020.  https://link.springer.com/journal/10834

 

 _Advisory Board, Basque economic journal EKONOMIAZ http://www.euskadi.eus/ekonomiaz/

 

-Invited Editor, “Individual and Household Time Allocation: Market Work, Household Work, and Parental Time”, Annales d’ Economie et Statistique, with Olivier Donni and Robert A. Pollak,  January-June, 2012.

 

-Invited Editor , “Whose time? Who saves? Introduction to a special issue on couples’ savings, time use and children”, “Review of the Economics of the Household” Elsevier, Volume 8 (3) 2010, with Shoshana Grossbard.

 

 

RECENT REFEREE REPORTS:

Journal of Political Economy,

Quarterly Journal of Economics,

Review of Economics  and Statistics,

Journal of Labor Economics, 

Journal of Public Economics,

Journal of European Economic Association,

Economic Journal,

Journal of Applied Econometrics,

European Economic Review,

Labour Economics,

Industrial and Labor Relations Review,

Journal of Population Economics,

Industrial Relations,

Economic Inquity,

Social Science Research,

British Journal of Industrial Relations,

Economica,

Demography,

Economic Inquiry,

Southern Economic Journal,

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,

IZA World of Labor, 

IZA Journal of Labor Policy,

Fiscal Studies,

Review of the Economics of the Household,

Journal of Family and Economic Issues,

Journal of Marriage and the Family,

Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford Economic Press,

International Journal of Manpower,

Contemporary Economic Policy,

Annales d’ Economie et Statistique,

Labour,

Revue d’Economie Politique,

Singapore Economic Review,

Socio-Economic-Review, 

Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research.

 

 

 

 

Association de l’Economie des Menages (Society of Economics of the HOusehold | SEHO)

 The Society of Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO) was founded by Shoshana Grossbard in 2017.  http://econoflove.sdsu.edu/

SEHO counts over 400 members in 34 countries, spanning all continents seho-member-list.pdf .

 Household economics is defined as the economic analysis of household decisions, including decisions regarding consumption, labor supply and other uses of time, household formation and dissolution, demand for health and other forms of human capital, fertility and investment in children’s human capital, demand for environmental and other public goods, migration, demand for religiosity, and decisions by agricultural households.

The first meetings of SEHO were held June 25 and 26 2017, in San Diego California. 2017 SEHO meetings Program where I was elected President-elect of SEHO.

 The 2018 meetings of Society of the Economics of the HOusehold (SEHO) were held on 23rd and 24th May  at the Paris School of Economics. and I was the main organizer   2018 SEHO Paris program

 The 2019 SEHO meetings were held in Lisbon on 27th and 28th May.  [doc8443]

 The  2020 SEHO meetings were to be held in Venice on 20th and 21st May (cancelled) and I overviewed their organization.

The 2021 SEHO meetings took place virtually in Boston on 24th and 25th May, and I co-organized them.

 The 2022 meeting of SEHO will be held at UCL London.

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

 

Co-Organiser (with Daniele Paserman) of the 2021 Annual meeting of the  Society of the Economics of the Household (SEHO) at Boston University (230 participants) https://live.bu.edu/seho/

Organiser of the 2018 Annual meeting of SEHO at the Paris School of Economics (130 participants)    

Steering Committee of the 2019 Annual meeting of SEHO, at Lisbon technical university (150 participants)

Steering Committee of the 2020 Annual meeting of SEHO, at Venice Ca Foscari (150 participants expected but cancelled due to COVID-19).

Scientific Committee (selection of papers to be included in the conference program) of the  five Annual meeting of SEHO: San Diego (100 participants); Paris (130 participants); Lisbon (150 participants); Venice (150 participants expected); Boston (230 participants).

Co-Organiser (with Laurent Lesnard) of the 2010 annual conference of  the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR)  at Sciences-Po Paris (200 participants).

Co-Organiser (with Daniel Hamermesh) of a May 2014 international workshop on Frontiers of time use economics, University Paris 1 (40 participants).

 Co-Organiser (with Catherine Sofer)) of a June 2012 international workshop on The economics of gender, at Nice (50 participants)

Co-Organiser (with Olivier Donni) of a December 2011  international workshop on The economics of couples  at University Cergy Pontoise, (30 participants)

Other workshops organized

-Household economics in honour of Catherine Sofer, Paris, June 2014, with C. Thibout, E. Cudeville, A. Luci.

The labour market behaviour of couples, Nice, June 2008, ADRES, ANR, CNRS funds.

Evaluer la Prime sur l’Emploi à la lumière des expériences internationales , OFCE, June 2003.

SEMINARS

I  organized a weekly  seminar on labor & public economics  topics at PSE 2016-2017.

 I  organized a monthy seminar on gender-labor  topics at PSE and CES 2012-2016.

INVITED SEMINARS

Invited speaker, Conference in honour of _Daniel Hamermesh, May 2019, IZA, Bonn, Germany.
https://wol.iza.org/events/exploring-the-breadth-of-labor-economics-dan-hamermesh

Keynote speaker, annual meeting of the Society of the Economics of the Household (SEHO) Lisbon, Portugal, May 2019. https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/aquila/unidade/seho2019/speakers-&-scientific-committee

Keynote speaker, annual conference of the Doctoral school of Collegio Carlo Alberto & Turin University, Turin, Italy https://www.workshopecon.carloalberto.org/programme/

 

 Invited seminar speaker, Carlos Tercero, Madrid, Spain, October 2022.

 Invited seminar speaker, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2021.

  Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Pavia University, Italy, November 2019.

Invited seminar speaker, doctoral school, Genoa University, Italy, October 2019.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Hambourg University, Germany, May 2018. 

Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Venise University, Italy, February 2018.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Padoa University, Italy, Febr. 2018 (& Febr. 2016).

 Invited seminar speaker, internal seminar series, Oslo Frisch Center, Norway, January 2018.

 Invited seminar speaker, regular seminar series, Zurich EIT, Switzerland, October 2017.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Nanterre University, France, October 2017.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Verona University, Italy, February 2016.

 Invited seminar speaker, departmental seminar, LISER, Luxembourg, May 2015.

 Invited seminar speaker, Labor lunch seminars, Princeton University, United States, April 2015.

Invited seminar speaker, Applied Economics seminar, New York University, US, April 2015. 

Invited seminar speaker, economics department, Queens University, New-York, US, April 2015.

 Invited seminar speaker, population economics lunch seminar, University of Santa Barbara California, United States, February 2014.

 Invited seminar speaker, lunch seminar, University Southern California, Los Angeles, US, Febr. 2014.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, University of Irvine, US, Febr. 2014.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 2013.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, Siena University, Italy, November 2012

 Invited seminar speaker, doctoral school in economics, Zaragoza University, Spain, May 2011.

Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, Poitiers University, France, February 2012.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, Le Mans University, France, Nov. 2017.

 Invited seminar speaker, economics department seminar, _Evry University, France, September 2011.

 

Other earlier career invited seminar invitations:

-CNRS Winter School, Evaluation des politiques publiques, Aussois March 2011 & March 2010.

-Rockwool Center Copenhagen, June 2010

-Siena University, June 2010 & November 2012

-Turin University, November 2009

-University of San Diego State, December 2008

-RAND, Los Angeles, December 2008

-CREST, November 2008

-University Paris 2, 2008

-University Paris 1, 2007.

-University Cergy, 2007 ;

-Tilburg University, CentER 1995,  Econometrics 2005 ;

-PSE, Cepremap, 2002, 2005 ; Piketty lunch seminaires, 2005 and 2012;

-LEO, University Orléans, 2004 ;

-University Gotenborg, Sweden, 1997 ; -University Bergen,  Norway 1997 ; -Université de Aarhus , Denmark, 1997 ;

-University College London 1995 ; -London School of Economics, 1995 ;

-CREST, Paris, 1995 ;

-University Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 1994 ;

-Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, 1994 ; -Free University, Amsterdam,  1994 ; -University Leiden,  1994

 

CONFERENCES where I have presented my papers:

American Economic Association (AEA), Philadelphia, 2018; San Francisco, 2016; Chicago, 2017 &  2012.

Society of Labor Economists (SOLE): Toronto, 2018,  Washington, 2014;  Boston, 2013;  Chicago 2012; Vancouver 2011, Boston 2009, New York 2008.

National Bureau Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute Ageing Workshop, Boston, July 2011.

_Society of the Economics of the Household (SEHO), San Diego June 2017; Paris May 2018; Boston May 2021, London UCL 2022.


Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement (Netspar),  Leiden, January 2019, Amsterdam January 2014, 2013, 2011.


European Society for Population Economics (ESPE): Barcelona (virtual) June 2021; Aarhus, Denmark, 2013; Verona, June 2006.

IZA International Perspectives on Time Use, Maryland University, June 2011; Pensions, Tokyo, May 2015.

Feminist Economics: Boston 2010, Turin 2008, Amsterdam 1997. 

European Meetings of the Econometric Society (ESEM): Budapest 2007; Tokyo 1995; Uppsala 1993.

European Associaton of Labor Economists (EALE) Varsaw 1994, Chania 1996, Aarhus 1997, Paris 2002, Padoa 2022.

-IZA, Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Munich, June 2005.

International Conference Time Use Research (IATUR): Brussels, 2003; Lunenberg, 2009; Paris 2010.

Journees Micro Appliquee JMA: Nice 2013.

Association Française d’Economie (AFSE), conférence annuelle, Paris : 2004,  2007. 

Associazione Italiana degli economisti del lavoro (AIEL), Piacenza, 1993 ; Trento 1996 ; Napoli 2007.

Association d’Economie Appliquée, Goteborg, 1996 ; Maastricht 1996 ; Perpignan,  1998 ; Pau, 2005.

International Panel Studies Conference, Paris, 1994 ; Amsterdam, Pays Bas 1995.

 

 

 

The Economics of Gender, doctoral school, Paris School of Econonics, 2022/23.

The Economics of Gender, Research Master students, Paris School of Econonics, 2022/23.

Frontiers in Time Allocation Research, doctoral school, Paris School of Econonics, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22

The Economics of Discrimination,  Research Master M2 APE, Paris School of Economics, 2016-17, 2018-19

Regression Discontinuity, Siena Doctoral School, 2017-18.

 Personnel Economics, Research  Master M2 ETE, Paris School of Economics  2014-15; 2015-16.

Econometrics, PSME, M1 Paris 1 University, , 2013-2014; 2014-15.

 Development and Transition in Practice, PSME, M1, Paris 1 Univ, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15.  

Household economics, Research  Master M2 ETE,  Paris School of Economics,  2013-2014.

Regression Discontinuity », Siena Doctoral School, 2011-012   
 Introduction to STATA, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2011-012. 
Globalisation,, Master International Affairs, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2010-011. 
Labour market policy,  undergraduates, University Cergy Pontoise, 2010-011.
Economic policy, undergraduates, University Cergy Pontoise, 2010-011.
Household Economics» doctoral school, ESSEC & University Cergy Pontoise, 2009-010
Statistics and Econometrics, undergraduates, University Cergy Pontoise, 2009-010.
Inequality ,  Master, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06. 
Inequality , Master, GREDEG, Nice, 2007-08.  
Inequality ,  undergraduates, Tilburg University, 1996-1997 et 1997-1998.
Labour economics ,  undergraduates, Tilburg University, L3, 1996-1997 et 1997-1998.
Econometrics,   undergraduates, University of Genoa, L1, 1994-1995.
Macroeconomics,  undergraduates, University of Genoa, L1, 1994-1995.

 

Research Grant, ANR, Because Terror,  2018-2022; with Daniel Mirza (University of Orleans Tours), Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) & Mouez Fhoda (Paris School of Economics); I am the Coordinator of the Paris School of Economics team.

 Research grant ANR, Age & Well-Being, 2014-2017. Project member, . Other participants: Andrew Clark, Hippolyte D’Albis,  Angela Greulich, Claudia Senik.

Research grant AGENTA, European Commission, 2014-2017. Other participants: Hippolyte D’Albis, Anne Solaz, Carole Bonnet, Olivier Thevenon. I was the Coordinator of the Paris School of Economics team together with Hippolyte d’Albis.

 

Research grant Netspar Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement, 2013-2014, coordinator.

 Research grant ANR Blanc,  “Couplemploi: la situation des couples sur le marché du travail”, 2006-09. I was the main Coordinator. Other participants: Catherine Sofer, Dominique Meurs, Hans Bloemen, Arthur van Soest.
 

Research grant ANR Blanc “Gindhila”, , 2009-2012. I was project member. Other participants: Catherine Sofer (coordinator).

Research grant PREDIT, « trajectoires des ménages », 2009-2012. I was project member. Other participants:  Nathalie Picard (coordinator).

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS UNDER MY SUPERVISION (at the Paris School of Economics).

-Hector Moreno, Paris School of Economics & Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, defended February 2018. Co-supervisor Francois Bourguignon.  PhD Defense Committee: Francois Bourguignon, Hippolyte D’Albis, Nora Lustig, Thierry Magnac, Christophe Muller.Employed first at Oxford University, and now at the OECD. 

 

-Almedina Music, Paris School of Economics & Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne,  defended May 2018. PhD Defense Committee:  Hillel Rappoport, Eric Strobl, Roberto Galbiati,  Katia Zuravskaja. Employed at the World Bank.

 

Anne Eliseeva, Paris School of Economics &  Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, 2012-2016. Defended in June 2016. PhD Defense Committee: Francesca Bettio (Siena University); Estefania Santa Creu Vasut (ESSEC business school); Sophie Ponthieux (INSEE), Hippolyte d’Albis (Paris 1 University). Currently doing further studies at Harvard Kennedy School.

 

VISITING DOCTORAL STUDENTS UNDER MY SUPERVISION.

_Gianluca Cerruti (Genoa University), academic year 2019/2020. Currently junior researcher at Genoa University and at Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan.

 _Hayriye Ozgul OZKAN DEGİRMENCİ, Turkey, June 2019. Currently assistant professor in Turkey.

 _Philip Rosembaum, Copenhagen Business School, February-July 2018. Currently Assistant Professor at CBS, Denmark.

_Zahra Mohammadi Nikpour, Padova University, Spring-Summer 2018. Currently working in the private sector in Sweden.

_ Hector Bellido, Zaragoza University, PhD supervisor: Alberto Molina & Miriam Marcen Perez. Hector Bellido visited Paris 1 University in 2012-13.Thesis defended on  April 2014. Jury: Miriam Marcen Perez, Alberto Molina, Elena Stancanelli, Nacho Gimenez, Current Position: Assistant Professor. Technical University Zaragoza.

 

PARTICIPATION TO Thesis Committees of Habilitation (HdR)

 -Member of the “Habilitation à diriger de Recherches” committee and Thesis Referee,  Arne Uhlerdorff, Cergy Pontoise University, advisor Olivier Charlot, December 2019. Professor at Crest.

 

PARTICIPATION TO PHD  Thesis Committees as Thesis Referee and President/Member

President of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Marina Morales, Zaragoza University, Spain, 2021, advisors: Aberto Molina and  Miriam Marcen, September 2021. Currently postdoc at UCL London.

President of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, MONIRJAVID Salimeh, Cergy Pontoise University, advisor Olivier Donni, January 2021. Working at a French Ministry.

 –Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee,  Max Viskanic, Sciences-Po, advisor: Roberto Galbiati, October 2019. Employed at the European Parliament.

   –President  of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Helene Le Forner, Paris School of Economics. Advisor: Hippolyte D’Albis and Arnaud Lefranc.  September 2019. Currently Assistant Professor at Rennes University.

 –Member of the PhD defense committee and  Thesis Referee,  Delphine Drouet, Cergy Pontoise University, advisor : Olivier Donni, February 2018. Employed at a French Ministry.

President of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Juan Carlos Campana, Zaragoza University, Spain, 2018, advisors: Aberto Molina and Nacho Gimenez.

 –Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Vincent Vergnat, Strasbourg University, advisor: Bertrand Koebel, December 2017. Employed as a researcher at LISER Luxembourg.

Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Jochem Zweerink, Free University of Amsterdam, 2016, Supervisors Hans Bloemen,Stefan Hochguertel, Marteen Lindeboom. Researcher at Dutch Central Statistique Office.

Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Un WU, ESSEC, 2015, Supervisors Estefania Santacreu Vasut and Ani Guerdjikova.

Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee , Hector BELLIDO, Zaragoza University, Spain, 2014. Currently working as Assistant Professor at Zaragoza University.

Member of the PhD defense committee and Thesis Referee, Matthieu SOLIGNAC, Universite Paris 1, 2014. Supervisor Laurent Gobillon. Deceased.

Member of the PhD defense jury and Thesis Referee , Faouzi SELLEM, Universite du Maine, 2012-13. PhD Supervisor Francois Langot.

Member of the thesis defense jury and Thesis Referee , Benedicte ROULAND, Universite du Maine, 2011-12.  PhD Supervisor Arnaud Cheron. Currently working at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

_Member of the thesis defense jury and Thesis Referee. Florent FREMIGACCI, Universite d’Evry, 2010-11. PhD Supervisor Emmanuel Duguet. Currently assistant professor at University of Nanterre. 

 

 POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS UNDER MY SUPERVISION (at the Paris School of Economics).

 _dr. Gianluca Cerruti (PhD Genoa University), academic year 2021/2022. Currently junior researcher at Genoa University and Fondazione Ferltrinelli, Milan.

_dr. Hector Moreno (PhD Paris School of Economics), academic year 2020/2021. Currently at the OECD.

_dr Chiara Noé (PhD Milan University), academic year 2014-15. Currently working in the private sector in Milan.

 

EXTERNAL MEMBER OF DOCTORAL SCHOOL

Doctoral program,Stefan Cel Mare University, Romania, 2021-

Doctoral program of Genoa University, 2019-2021. Including visiting and teaching a short course.

 Doctoral program of Marco Biagi Foundation and Modena University, 2017-2019

Doctoral program of Siena University, 2014-15 and 2017. Including visiting and teaching a short course. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paris School of Economics Summer School

The Economics of Gender:
Gender Biases, Stereotypes, Violence, and Policies

https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/fr/formation/summer-school/the-economics-of-gender/ 

 When: 19-23 June 2023

Where: at the Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

Registration opens on 9 January 2023

Professors: Thomas Breda, Libertad González, Nagore Iriberri, Claudia Senik, Elena Stancanelli

AIM: In spite of the progress made towards gender equality, the gender gap in wages, promotion, and recognition by peers, is persistent, partly driven by gender biases and cultural norms. This summer school aims at fostering participants knowledge of gender inequality causes and of the effectiveness of targeted interventions.This program aims at providing participants with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the burgeoning literature on the economics of gender. Gender inequality in paid and unpaid work has diminished over time in most countries, thanks to the increasing participation of women in the labour market, the educational achievements of women, their increased representation in the political arena and elsewhere, which has been made possible also by the passing of laws of equality of opportunity by gender, the progress made in health and home technology, and so forth. Nonetheless, gender gaps persist in wages, promotion, career perspectives and recognition by peers, which is, at least in part, driven by explicit and implicit gender biases, and by deeply rooted cultural norms and stereotypes. What policies can help reduce these persistent gaps? For example, how effective are gender quotas in achieving gender equality? Beyond its lectures, participants will have an opportunity to present their own research ideas and papers in this area.

TOPICS:

  • Household Time Allocation: An Introduction to Gender Economics – Elena Stancanelli
  • Fertility, Family, and Father’s Leave Policies –Libertad González
  • Gender Inequality in the Labour Market -–Thomas Breda
  • Gender, Economics, and Covid-19 –Libertad González
  • Gender and Negotiation – Nagore Iriberri
  • Cultural Gender Norms –Claudia Senik
  • Women in Academia – Nagore Iriberri
  • Women in STEM –Thomas Breda
  • Gender Biases and Stereotypes: Research Methods – Elena Stancanelli
  • The Costs of Gender Inequality and the Efficacy of Gender Quotas – Elena Stancanelli

 

Household Time Allocation: An Introduction to Gender Economics – Elena Stancanelli

Overview

This course will present the concepts and practice of household time allocation, which form the roots of the economics of gender, and lay out the general framework for the economics of gender. The theoretical model of household decision making, encompassing labour supply, consumption and household production decisions, as developed by e.g. Becker, Chiappori, Apps and Rees, will be presented. Time Use Diaries, which are the unique data tool to measure the hours devoted to paid work, unpaid domestic work, parental time, and leisure time will be illustrated with an application for the American Time Use Survey (this last part of the lecture will take place in the laboratory).  

Structure

  • Theoretical framework of Household Decision Making and Time Allocation
  • Introduction to Gender Economics
  • The gendered allocation of time: an application using the American Time Use Survey

 

Fertility, family, and parental leave policies -Libertad González

Overview

The course will present the Becker model of parental investment in children, together with recent literature on fertility and law changes, and conclude with a discussion of the effects of paternity leave policies on gender inequality.

Structure

  • Becker’s theory of parental investment in children
  • How did abortion law changes affect fertility and other outcomes for women?
  • Do father’s parental leave policies reduce gender inequality?

 

Gender inequality in the Labour Market Thomas Breda

Overview

This introductory lecture will provide a general overview on the extent of gender inequality in the labor market, its evolution over the past decades and its main possible determinants. Starting from a description of unconditional and conditional gender wage gaps in various countries, it will discuss in turn the possible causes of these gaps: discrimination, segregation across occupations and firms, working time and career trajectories around child birth, differences in preferences or “psychological traits”, etc. Existing and possible policy interventions will finally be discussed along with their justification.

Structure

  • Overview of gender inequality at work across countries and time
  • Review of possible explanations
  • General discussion of possible policy intervention

 

Gender, economics, and Covid-19 -Libertad González

Overview

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted households and some of its effects have not yet resumed. In particular, gender inequality has increased along many dimensions during the pandemic as often, women lost more jobs than men did, but also women performed most of the burden of additional care and domestic work during the lockdowns.

Structure

  • How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect gender inequality in the labour market?
  • How did parents share on paid and unpaid work tasks during the pandemic?
  • How did the impacts vary across different countries?

 

Gender and Negotiation – Nagore Iriberri

Overview

Women are expected to negotiate less often and get worse deals from negotiations than men. In this course, we review the work in psychology and economics with regard to gender differences in entry into negotiation and gender differences in bargaining outcomes. Ambiguity seems to be the key factor in understanding these differences: ambiguity with respect to whether it is appropriate to negotiate, as well as ambiguity with respect to what one should expect out of the negotiation.

Structure

  • Gender and negotiations: From “Women don´t ask” to gender differences in negotiation.
  • Laboratory methods: how to use the laboratory elicitation to study gender and negotiation.
  • Ambiguity: key element to understand gender differences in negotiation.
  • Usual suspects: risk preferences, confidence and stereotypes.

 

Cultural Gender Norms Claudia Senik

Overview

Gender inequalities are supported by traditional gender roles and identities, and form ‘a cultural equilibrium’. But different gender cultures can form depending on the institutions in each country. Remarkably, the institutions that were set up in the socialist bloc have durably modified the behavior of women and the relations between spouses within the household. The new culture that emerged from this experience has resisted the disappearance of institutions and mechanisms that promoted women’s work and autonomy. This cultural legacy is clearly illustrated by the different behavior of women living in the Länder of the former East versus West Germany.

Structure

  • The division of tasks within the household: East versus West
  • Performance in Math and Science: a smaller gender gap in former socialist countries
  • Educational choices: the specific gender culture of descendants of former socialist countries

 

 Women in Academia – Nagore Iriberri

Overview

Women are underrepresented in many disciplines in academia. This course will present the latest findings of gender differences in scholar output, editorial process, peer recognition and representation in the top scientific societies. The main focus will be in the field of economics, where female representation has been historically low and only recently has reached 20%. Then, we will compare economics with other fields such as psychology and mathematics. Academia offers a big advantage over other labor sectors : productivity measures (in the form of accumulated publications and citations) can be observed and measured.

Structure

  • Women in academia: gender differences in editorial process and peer recognition.
  • Methodology: data construction through web scraping, new research opportunities.
  • From economics to other disciplines.

 

Women in STEM – Thomas Breda

Overview

Fewer women than men specialize in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Why women do not enter math-intensive fields such as physics or computer science? Is this due to underlying discrimination, or to gender differences in academic performance, or to differences in educational choices made by students earlier on? What is the role of gender norms in explaining these facts?

Structure

  • Why should we care about the underrepresentation of women in STEM?
  • Are women particularly discriminated against in STEM careers (in and outside academia)?
  • What are the possible policies to foster female participation in STEM?

 

Gender Biases and Stereotypes: research methods – Elena Stancanelli

Overview

This course will focus on new recent research methods deployed in the economics literature to measure and possibly, affect implicit gender biases and stereotypes, providing a discussion of the pros and cons of these methods a well as illustrating how to implement them in practice. The focus will be on Implicit Association Tests and Anchoring Vignettes (this lecture will take place in the laboratory).

Structure

  • How does randomizing female participation to teams at work affect men’s gender attitudes?
  • Why are female financial advisers who make mistakes being punished much stronger than their male counterparts in the financial sector?
  • Why are female speakers getting more questions at economics seminars?
  • How to detect, measure, and change implicit gender biases?
  • Designing Implicit Association Test and Anchoring Vignette Studies

 

The costs of Gender Inequality and the Efficacy of Gender Quotas – Elena Stancanelli

Overview

Gender inequality is not only problematic for fairness reasons but also economically costly, as documented in the literature on the costs of foregone diversity, workplace harassment and domestic violence. How effective are targeted policies such as gender quotas at reducing gender inequality?

Structure

  • How to quantify the costs of gender inequality
  • The economics costs of workplace harassment and domestic violence
  • The effectiveness of gender quotas and other gender-targeted interventions
  • A debate on quota (participants will play gender-quota defendants and opponents)

 

 

 

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Publications HAL

  • A Room of One’s Own. Work from Home and the Gendered Allocation of Time Pre-print, Working paper

    The traditional specialization of men in paid work and women in housework is rooted in the spatial separation of these activities. We examine the possible consequences of the recent expansion of Work from Home (WfH) for the gendered allocation of time. We focus on the time devoted to housework by men and women who work from home versus at the workplace, before and after the Covid pandemic. Using data on several thousand workers drawn from the American Time Use Survey, we find that the gender gap in unpaid work has declined by about 27 minutes per day, i.e. by about 40% for remote workers. Among those, women now spend more time on paid work and less on unpaid work, whereas men do more household chores.

    Published in

  • A tale of Work from Home in the aftermath of the Great Recession: Learning from high-frequency diaries Journal article

    This study contributes to the growing literature on Work from Home (WfH), focusing on the responsiveness of the phenomenon to the business cycle. In particular, the Great Recession led many states to implement unprecedented and expansionary unemployment benefit measures (Extended Benefit, EB), which were often revoked when the recession resumed. EB measures differ widely in generosity and timing across states. We exploit this, for identification purposes, by linking the interview date of the respondents to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to the dates of implementation of EB programs, in the respondent’s state of residence. ATUS provides unique cross-sectional information on WfH for a representative sample of Americans. Taking an approach inspired by a Regression Discontinuity Design, we find that recessions, as proxied by EB expansionary measures, significantly increase women’s commuting. In contrast, women’s remote work increases with economic recovery, as captured by EB contractionary measures. The evidence for men is less clear-cut.

    Journal: Review of Economics of the Household

    Published in

  • Older Mothers’ Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest IsEmpty Book section

    A significant literature in the social sciences addresses the impact of child-bearing and rearing on marital stability and on mothers’ labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers’ employment and marriage patterns when the adult children leave the parental nest. This study aims to shed light on these issues using longitudinal labour force data for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we find that older women’s retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty nest is negatively associated with older mothers’ marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest.

    Editor: Springer International Publishing

    Published in

  • Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data Pre-print, Working paper

    This paper adds to the scant literature on the impact of terrorism on consumer behavior, focusing on household spending on goods that are sensitive to brain-stress neurocircuitry. These include sweet-and fat-rich foods but also home necessities and female-personal-hygiene products, the only female-targeted good in our data. We examine unique continuous in-homescanner expenditure data for a representative sample of about 15,000 French households, observed in the days before and after the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert-hall. We find that the attack increased expenditure on sugar-rich food by over 5% but not that on salty food or soda drinks. Spending on home maintenance products went up by almost 9%. We detect an increase of 23.5% in expenditure on women’s personal hygiene products. We conclude that these effects are short-lived and driven by the responses of households with children, youths, and those residing within a few-hours ride of the place of the attack.

    Published in

  • Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data Journal article

    This paper adds to the scant literature on the impact of terrorism on consumer behavior, focusing on household spending on goods that are sensitive to brain-stress neurocircuitry. These include sweet- and fat-rich foods but also home necessities and female-personal-hygiene products, the only female-targeted good in our data. We examine unique continuous in-home-scanner expenditure data for a representative sample of about 15,000 French households, observed in the days before and after the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert-hall. We find that the attack increased expenditure on sugar-rich food by over 5% but not that on salty food or soda drinks. Spending on home maintenance products went up by almost 9%. We detect an increase of 23.5% in expenditure on women’s personal hygiene products. We conclude that these effects are short-lived and driven by the responses of households with children, youths, and those residing within a few-hours ride of the place of the attack.

    Journal: Economics and Human Biology

    Published in

  • Older mothers’ employment and marriage stability when the nest is empty Pre-print, Working paper

    A significant literature in the social sciences addresses the impact of child-bearing and rearing on marital stability and on mothers’ labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers’ employment and marriage patterns when the adult children leave the parental nest. This study aims to shed light on these issues using longitudinal labour force data for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we find that older women’s retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty nest is negatively associated with older mothers’ marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest.

    Published in

  • Women’s Employment, Wages, and the Household Journal article

    Gender inequality in the labour market is interconnected with unequal sharing of care responsibilities by gender at home. While the unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is illegal, gender gaps in employment and earnings are a persistent feature of labour markets. It is challenging to distinguish women’s true preferences for combing work and family life from employers’ discrimination against women. Women’s preferences for staying at home, working part-time, or in non-standard employment forms are often believed to drive gender inequalities in the labour market. This view contradicts the finding that gender imbalances in combing work and care are often reflected in lower well-being of mothers and children. This article reviews a selection of papers on gender gaps in employment, earnings and well-being published recently by JFEI and prospects avenues for future research.

    Journal: Journal of Family and Economic Issues

    Published in

  • The Impact of Terrorism on Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing Journal article

    A growing literature has concluded that terrorism affects the economy, yet less is known about its impact on individual welfare. This article estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston marathon bombing on well-being, exploiting representative daily data from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Supplement. Using a combined regression discontinuity and differences-in-differences design, with the 2012 Boston marathon as a counterfactual, we find an immediate reduction in well-being of a third of a standard deviation. In particular, happiness declined sharply and negative emotions rose significantly. While the effects do not persist beyond one week, they may entail adverse health and economic consequences.

    Journal: The Economic Journal

    Published in

  • La vie des couples après la retraite – Temps partagés et contraintes économiques Books

    Les couples seniors sont souvent constitués de conjoints qui travaillent l’un et l’autre avant de partir à la retraite. En bonne santé, ces couples peuvent commencer une nouvelle vie après leur vie professionnelle. Cela devrait les amener à synchroniser leur départ à la retraite pour profiter d’un plus grand quantum de loisirs partagés. Chiffres à l’appui, les auteurs montrent que ce n’est pas le cas. Les couples seniors français, contrairement à leurs homologues américains par exemple, ne coordonnent pas leur départ à la retraite. Pour comprendre pourquoi, cet ouvrage offre une dissection de la vie des couples retraités et montre que le temps partagé n’est qu’une partie de la vie après la retraite.

    Author: Nicolas Moreau Editor: CEPREMAP

    Published in

  • Couples’ Retirement under Individual Pension Design: a Regression Discontinuity Study for France Journal article

    Retirement policies are individually designed, but the majority of older workers are partnered, and are likely to coordinate their employment decisions with their spouse. The goal of this study is to estimate the direct and indirect (via the spouse) effects of a pioneer French pension reform on both spouses’ retirement decision. The extent of the reform varies by birth year, which enables us to identify its retirement effects on both spouses, since the husband is, on average, two years older than the wife. We use labor-force survey data to implement a sharp regression-discontinuity framework, in which the running variable is the distance of the individual birth month to a certain reference month, as well as an incremental differences-in-differences approach. We find a significant drop in each spouse’s probability of retirement. The husband’s retirement probability also drops immediately by 2 percentage points if the wife is affected by the reform, while her retirement probability does not respond immediately if he is affected.

    Journal: Labour Economics

    Published in