François Langot

PSE Affiliate Researcher

  • Professor
  • i-MIP Deputy director
  • Université Le Mans
  • Université Le Mans
Research groups
Research themes
  • Cycle
  • Labour Markets
  • Unemployment
Contact

Address :Université du Maine,
72085 Le Mans cedex 9, France

Address :Avenue O. Messiaen

Publications HAL

  • La vulnérabilité des populations face aux changements climatiques dans les Pays de la Loire Report

    Ce rapport spécial du GIEC des Pays de la Loire propose une analyse approfondie des vulnérabilités humaines et territoriales face aux changements climatiques. Il rappelle l’impératif d’une adaptation juste, pensée à l’échelle locale, construite avec les populations et fondée sur une solidarité active. Car anticiper les impacts ne suffira pas : il faut aussi agir sur leurs causes, pour limiter l’ampleur des perturbations à venir.

    Author: Béatrice Bechet, Blanche Lormeteau, C. Fleurant, Claire Magand, Claude Rospars, Eric Gaume, Géraldine Molina, Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi, Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy, K. Chancibault, Laurent Devisme, M. Robin, Morgane Innocent, Samira Rousselière, Sophie Eberhardt

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  • Understanding Cross-Country Differences in Health Status and Expenditures: Health Prices Matter Journal article

    Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model featuring health production, we quantify the contribution of health price in explaining cross-country differences in health expenditures and health status. Considering other country-specific explanatory factors, US health prices are estimated to be 33% higher than those of European countries. This price differential explains more than 60% of the difference in health expenditures and more than half of the difference in health status between Europe and the United States. Despite its large impact at the aggregate level, these price differences increase the lifetime cost of living of Americans by 2 percentage points.

    Author: Thepthida Sopraseuth Journal: Journal of Political Economy

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  • Les incidences économiques de l’action pour le climat. Compétitivité Report

    Les conséquences économiques et environnementales des politiques françaises de transition énergétique doivent s’envisager dans le cadre d’une économie ouverte. Tout d’abord, le rythme des efforts et les modalités de la décarbonation de l’activité économique sont en partie dictés au niveau européen, comme dans le cas du marché de quotas d’émission pour les industries hautement émissives. Mais surtout, l’Accord de Paris inscrit l’effort français au sein d’une variété d’engagements nationaux de décarbonation, tant en termes d’ambition que d’instruments mis en œuvre pour y parvenir. Cette diversité des efforts et instruments au niveau international contribue à déterminer les effets économiques des choix faits en matière de politiques climatiques adoptées au niveau européen et français. Ce rapport propose un tour d’horizon synthétique de cette dimension internationale des politiques de transition énergétique. En dépit d’éléments communs, notamment leur objectif final de réduction de l’empreinte carbone de l’activité économique, les politiques climatiques des différents pays sont hétérogènes, qu’il s’agisse de leur ambition – à savoir le niveau de leurs engagements en termes de décarbonation – ou des politiques (prix, réglementations, subventions ou crédits d’impôt) mises en œuvre. Il est dès lors illusoire de tenter de réduire les effets de cette hétérogénéité à une métrique commune de l’effort de chaque pays, comme le serait un équivalent prix des mesures réglementaires ou incitatives en place dans les différents pays.

    Author: Christophe C. Gouel, Frédéric Ghersi, Jean Sebastien, Paul Malliet

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  • Preferences for COVID-19 epidemic control measures among French adults: a discrete choice experiment Journal article

    In this stated preferences study, we describe for the first time French citizens’ preferences for various epidemic control measures, to inform longer-term strategies and future epidemics. We used a discrete choice experiment in a representative sample of 908 adults in November 2020 (before vaccination was available) to quantify the trade-off they were willing to make between restrictions on the social, cultural, and economic life, school closing, targeted lockdown of high-incidence areas, constraints to directly protect vulnerable persons (e.g., self-isolation), and measures to overcome the risk of hospital overload. The estimation of mixed logit models with correlated random effects shows that some trade-offs exist to avoid overload of hospitals and intensive care units, at the expense of stricter control measures with the potential to reduce individuals’ welfare. The willingness to accept restrictions was shared to a large extent across subgroups according to age, gender, education, vulnerability to the COVID-19 epidemic, and other socio-demographic or economic variables. However, individuals who felt at greater risk from COVID-19, and individuals expressing high confidence in the governmental management of the health and economic crisis, more easily accepted all these restrictions. Finally, we compared the welfare impact of alternative strategies combining different epidemic control measures. Our results suggest that policies close to a targeted lockdown or with medically prescribed self-isolation were those satisfying the largest share of the population and achieving high gain in average welfare, while average welfare was maximized by the combination of all highly restrictive measures. This illustrates the difficulty in making preference-based decisions on restrictions.

    Author: Jonathan Sicsic, Judith E Mueller Journal: European Journal of Health Economics

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  • Lockdown and Unemployment in France Journal article

    We are developing a matching model that reproduces the impact of the sanitary restrictions induced by the Covid-19 crisis on French unemployment, taking into account its heterogenous impacts between various educational levels. We identify the size of the restrictions on sales for each labor market segment and the different use of short-time working program. Our results are obtained thanks to an original matching model integrating (i) time-varying microeconomic risks, (ii) and congestion externalities making unit costs of vacancy posting varying. Afterwards, (i) we evaluate the impact of the short-time working program on unemployment rates by diploma, (ii) we compare different scenarios of the lockdown (short but strict vs long but flexible) and (iii) we forecast the impact of a similar lockdown of March 2020 at the end of March 2021.

    Journal: Revue d'économie politique

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