Seminars

Casual Friday Development Seminar

The Casual Friday Development Seminar takes place on Friday from 12:30 to 13:30 (PSE). Its objective is to provide a friendly and informal atmosphere in which ongoing research in developement economics can be presented and discussed. It is open to all students and faculty members of the Paris School of Economics.
If you want to make a presentation during the year and book a date, please contact Anna Barbeta-Margarit (anna.barbeta-margarit at psemail.eu) and Julia Hélie (julia.helie at psemail.eu)

Administrative correspondent: Sarah Dafer

This seminar is co-funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the Investissements d’avenir programme reference ANR-17-EURE-0001.

Upcoming events

Friday 2 June 2023 12:30-13:30
BHERING Davi (PSE) : VAT rates and firms' response: Evidence from India's GST
Pierre Bachas (ESSEC-Business School)
Friday 9 June 2023 12:30-13:30
R1-15
RICHARD Marion (PSE) : *
Friday 16 June 2023 12:30-13:30
SCARELLI Thiago (PSE) : *
DESTEFANIS Alessia (PSE) : *
Friday 23 June 2023 12:30-13:30
WRIGHT Kelsey (PSE) : *
Friday 7 July 2023 12:30-13:30
GARCIA CORNEJO Sebastian (PSE) : *

Archives

Friday 12 May 2023 12:30-13:30
HÉLIE Julia (PSE) : A tree for a vote: Electoral Incentives and Deforestation Cycles in Indonesia
Friday 5 May 2023 12:30-13:30
DIAZ Oscar Mauricio (PSE) : The Consequences of Integration in Schools: Evidence from Colombia
MONTOYA María (PSE) : Singing to my Drug Lord: the Effects of Drug Cartels on Local Employment Structure
Friday 21 April 2023 12:30-13:30
VANUKURI Balasai (PSE) : Does caste identity of your roommate matters: Evidence from Elite Public Colleges in India
LOUBES Romaine (PSE) : Caguwa sellers: A case study of trade shocks' impacts on self-employed women in low-income countries
Friday 7 April 2023 12:30-13:30
GANTIER MITA Marcelo (PSE) : Administrative Unit Proliferation and Public Service Delivery in Uganda
Friday 24 March 2023 12:30-13:30
RENK Andréa (PSE and Université de Namur) : Prevalence and reporting of domestic violence: study of a `one-door' system in Nepal
Maëlle Stricot (PSE)
Friday 17 March 2023 12:30-13:30
BEHAGHEL Luc (PSE) : Psychological support for Ukrainian refugees in Germany: field experiment proposal
Aavdenko (Heidelberg U), Hazard (PSE), Obminski (PSE)
Friday 10 March 2023 12:30-13:00
LEPAULT Claire (PSE) : Heat stress, hydraulic conditions and child health in India
CORNEJO Andrea (PSE) : Understanding and improving the student immigrant experience
Friday 10 February 2023 13:00-13:30
DEHOUCK Lucile (PSE) : Water insecurity and migration
RODRIGUEZ URIBE Arantxa (Princeton, PSE) : Growing under gang rule: consequences on youth’s human capital accumulation and policy options to reduce gang recruitment
Friday 3 February 2023 12:30-13:30
BARBETA MARGARIT Anna (PSE) : Comparing Risk-Taking Behavior across Matrilocal and Patrilocal Women: The Power of Social Support
Friday 27 January 2023 12:30-13:30
TESCHKE Eric (PSE) : Policy targeting under dynamic poverty
Jack Willis (Columbia University)
Friday 9 December 2022 12:30-13:30
PAREDES-CASTRO Héctor (PSE) : Land without masters: local political competition since the Peruvian Land Reform (1968-1980)
Friday 2 December 2022 12:30-13:30
KNEBELMANN Justine (PSE) : Widening the Tax Net when Information is Scarce: the Role of Agents’ Discretion
Victor Pouliquen (Oxford) and Bassirou Sarr (Ministry of Finance, Senegal)
Friday 21 October 2022 12:30-13:30
MALLIA Paola (PSE) : Blame it on the weather: the case of sweet potato in Uganda
Friday 7 October 2022 12:30-13:30
MARGOLIS David (PSE) : The Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Friday 23 September 2022 12:30-13:30
Welcoming Session
Friday 17 June 2022 12:30-13:30
R1-15
WEBB Duncan (PSE) : Laws, Norms and Discrimination: Transgender Rights in India
Friday 10 June 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
GITTARD Mélanie (PSE) : MiningLeaks: Water Pollution and Child Health in Africa.
HU Irène (PSE)
Friday 3 June 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
TESCHKE Eric (PSE) : ¿Cómo va mi escuela? Parental Involvement in School Governance in the Dominican Republic
Friday 20 May 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
DE GAUDEMARIS Louise (PSE) : Measuring psychological distress in Ghana: how to track variations over time
Friday 13 May 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
VERA Julieta (PSE) : Who does it take to raise a child?: Evidence from a parenting program in Cote d'Ivoire
Jere Behrman, Pamela Jervis, Karen Macours and Charlotte Pelras
Friday 6 May 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
CORDONNIER Victor (PSE) : Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia: What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?
Katia Covarrubias (FAO) and Ana Paula de la O Campos (FAO)
Friday 29 April 2022 12:30-13:30
YACOUBOU DJIMA Ismael (PSE) : Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia: What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?
Friday 22 April 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
ABOYA Nakita : Fiscal Policies, inequality and poverty in Cameroon
Friday 8 April 2022 12:30-13:30
RICHARD Marion (PSE) : An Indirect Cost of Conflict: Insecurity and Seasonal Migration in Mali
Friday 1 April 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
HÉLIE Julia (PSE) : Bribe me one more time? Electoral term limits and corruption incentives in Chile
Paola Mallia and Sebastián García
Friday 18 March 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
RENK Andréa (PSE and Université de Namur) : Who gains from increased rights? Women empowerment, patriarchy and violence in Nepal
Friday 11 March 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
LEPAULT Claire (PSE) : Is urban wastewater treatment effective in India?
Friday 25 February 2022 12:30-13:30
R2-01
ZAPPALÀ Guglielmo (PSE) : Do subjective perceptions shape adaptation to climate change? Evidence from Bangladesh
Friday 4 February 2022 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
WOO-MORA Guillermo (PSE) : Unveiling the Cosmic Race: Racial Inequalities in Latin America
Friday 10 December 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
BASTIEN Michel (PSE) : The Impact of Preschools in Lower-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
S. Maiga & P. A. Yeo
Friday 3 December 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
MAUE Casey (PSE) : Seasonality and the Organization of Palm Oil Processing in Ghana
Friday 19 November 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
MALLIA Paola (PSE) : You reap what (you think) you sow? Evidence on farmers’ behavioral adjustments in the case of correct crop varietal classification
Friday 12 November 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
SCARELLI Thiago (PSE) : Eliciting time discount in the context of labor markets in developing countries
Friday 22 October 2021 12:45-13:45
R1-09
PINTO Gustavo (PUC-Rio) : Do extreme events affect culture? Evidence from Japan
Friday 15 October 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
TESCHKE Eric (PSE) : Mental health of refugees in Jordan
Luc Behaghel and Louise de Gaudemaris
Friday 8 October 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
ASSOUAD Lydia (PSE) : *
Friday 1 October 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
WRIGHT Kelsey (PSE) : Cash transfers and food security in Mali
Friday 24 September 2021 12:45-13:45
R2-01
WEBB Duncan (PSE) : Laws, Norms and Prejudice: Gay rights in India
Friday 25 June 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
OH Suanna (PSE) : Demand for Flexible Work and Contract Choice
Friday 18 June 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
GITTARD Mélanie (PSE) : Mining, water pollution and health in Africa
Irene Hu (PSE)
Friday 11 June 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
LEPAULT Claire (PSE) : Water sanitation infrastructures and health in India
Friday 4 June 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
BASTIEN Michel (PSE) : Using Mobile Technology to Improve Early Childhood Development in Remote Areas: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
S. Kembou
Friday 28 May 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
BARBETA MARGARIT Anna (PSE) : Cultural norms, women's agency and policy effectiveness
Friday 21 May 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
GITTARD Mélanie (PSE) : Climate variability, migration and population in Kenya
Friday 14 May 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
MO Zhexun : Wool comes from the sheep's back - Determinants of Redistributive Preferences in Contemporary China
Yuchen Huang (PSE), and Yuqian Chen (Harvard)
Friday 7 May 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
DE GAUDEMARIS Louise (PSE) : *
Friday 30 April 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
WREN-LEWIS Liam (PSE) : Ethnic fractionalization, political devolution and public service use: Evidence from Kenya
Friday 23 April 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
KNEBELMANN Justine (PSE) : *
Friday 16 April 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
BASTIEN Michel (PSE) : Pupils Not Brides: Impact of Fostering Secondary Education in Niger
with H. Giacobino, E. Huillery, and M. Sage
Friday 9 April 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
CORDONNIER Victor (PSE) : *
Friday 2 April 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
ABDELNOUR ATALLAH Marian (PSE) : Skills and Human capital Investment in Vietnam
Friday 26 March 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
DESCHENES Sarah (PSE) : Exploring research ideas to evaluate a life skills and gender-norm intervention targeting adolescents
Friday 19 March 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
BERNARD David (PSE) : Forecasting treatment effects from RCTs
Friday 12 March 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
RENK Andréa (PSE and Université de Namur) : Forced sterilization and subsequent demand for healthcare: evidence from the Emergency state in India (1975-1977)
Friday 5 March 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
WRIGHT Kelsey (PSE) : Social protection in Niger
Friday 26 February 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
MO Zhexun (PSE) : Strategic motives on colonial and post-colonial public investments in former French Africa
Friday 12 February 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
LERVA Benedetta (SSE) : Effects of Price Spikes in Informal Markets: Evidence from the Market for Vanilla in Madagascar
Tillmann Von Carnap (IIES)
Friday 8 January 2021 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
CRESPIN-BOUCAUD Juliette (PSE) : Interethnic marriages in Kenya
Friday 4 December 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
VERA Julieta (PSE) : How does parents' perception of children's health influence their labour supply?
Eric Maurin
Friday 27 November 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
LUKSIC Juan : Can immigration affect neighborhood effects? Accounting for the indirect effects of immigrants on native test scores
Friday 20 November 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
HU Irene (PSE) : Foreign aid and large-scale land acquisitions in Africa
Friday 6 November 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
MURALIDHARAN Karthik (UC San Diego & CEPR) : From Muscle Drain to Brain Gain: The Long-term Effects of Gurkha Recruitment in Nepal
François Libois, Juni Singh and Oliver Vanden Eynde
Friday 16 October 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
YACOUBOU DJIMA Ismael (PSE) : Exploring the Role of Caste in Shaping Socio-Economic Status in Mali
Friday 9 October 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
WEBB Duncan (PSE) : Understanding inequalities in COVID-19 infection across socioeconomic groups in Bogota
Rachid Lajaaj
Friday 2 October 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
PELRAS Charlotte (PSE) : Impact evaluation project on parenting programme in Côte d'Ivoire
Friday 25 September 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
TESCHKE Eric (PSE) : Machine Learning for Development: Equity Targeting of Farmer Households in Nepal
Friday 18 September 2020 12:45-13:45
Using Zoom
BACHAS Pierre (ESSEC) : Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
Lucie Gadenne and Anders Jensen
Friday 17 July 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
SCARELLI Thiago (PSE) : When you can't afford to wait for a job: The role of time discount for own-account workers in developing markets
Friday 10 July 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
BERNARD David (PSE) : Does decentralisation help deal with crises? The unintended decentralisation of monetary policy in Argentina
VERA Julieta (PSE)
Friday 3 July 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
COULIBALY Romaric : Investigating households ICT expenditure drivers: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Houndoga Fréjus-Ferry
Friday 26 June 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ Martin (PSE) : Internal Migration and Fertiliy Change: Evidence from a Resettlement Program in Indonesia
Hillel Rapoport and Sam Bazzi
Friday 19 June 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
DESCHENES Sarah (PSE) : Using List Experiments to Measure Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Evidence from rural Burkina Faso
Friday 12 June 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
RICHARD Marion (PSE) : Informational and norm-related barriers to women internal migration in Mali
POULIQUEN Victor (PSE) : Can Mass Media Change Family Planning Behavior?
Friday 5 June 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
PELRAS Charlotte (PSE) : Early childhood development in multi-generational households
Friday 29 May 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
RENK Andréa (PSE and Université de Namur) : Do supply shocks change technology choices? Evidence from the 2015 Nepal blockade
Wednesday 6 May 2020 16:30-17:15
MO Zhexun (PSE) : The Colonial Legacy of the Office du Niger on Smallholder Agriculture in Mali
YACOUBOU DJIMA Ismael (PSE)
RICHARD Marion (PSE)
Friday 24 April 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
CORDONNIER Victor (PSE) : Land fragmentation, labour allocation and migration
Friday 17 April 2020 12:45-13:45
Using ZOOM
WREN-LEWIS Liam (PSE) : Complementarities in infrastructure impacts: Evidence from Indian agriculture
Oliver Vanden Eynde
Friday 13 March 2020 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
CRESPIN-BOUCAUD Juliette (PSE) : Parental divorces and children's educational outcomes in Senegal
Rozenn Hotte (THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Friday 6 March 2020 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
GITTARD Mélanie (PSE) : Adaptation to climate change and effects on agricultural production and food security
Friday 28 February 2020 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
YACOUBOU DJIMA Ismael (PSE) : Survey Measurement Errors and the Assessment of the Relationship between Yields and Inputs for Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Mali
Friday 7 February 2020 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
GLEWWE Paul (University of Minnesota) : What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries?
Friday 20 December 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LUKSIC Juan Diego (PSE) : Can immigration affect educational based neighborhood effects? Lesson from Chile
Friday 13 December 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
WRIGHT Kelsey (PSE) : Social Safety Nets and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Niger
Friday 6 December 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.21, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LAAJAJ Rachid (PSE) : The Costs of Bureaucracy and Corruption at Customs: Evidence from the Computerization of Imports in Colombia
Friday 29 November 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.21, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BERNARD David (PSE) : Estimating long-term effects without long-term data
Friday 22 November 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.21, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BARRERA Oscar : Migration, integration and perceptions on crime and social welfare in Europe
VERA Julieta (PSE) : Breaking the waiting game: improving information and belief building
Friday 8 November 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BERTELLI Olivia (DIAL) : Trust and conflict. Experimental evidence from Yemen.
Sikandra Kurdi (IFPRI)
Friday 25 October 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
POULIQUEN Victor (PSE) : Firm Formalization and Intra-Household Relationships: Experimental Evidence from Benin
Friday 18 October 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
MOLINA MILLAN Teresa (Nova School of Business and Economics and Novafrica) : Incentivizing CHWs in Guinea-Bissau: Experimental Evidence on Social Status and Intrinsic Motivation
Mattia Fracchia and Pedro Vicente
Friday 11 October 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LEHNE Jonathan (PSE) : Irrigation vs Education: The long-run effects of opium cultivation in British India
Friday 20 September 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
GARS Jared (OECD) : Media and Motivation: the effect of performance pay on writers and contents
Ivan Balbuzanov and Emilia Tjernström
Friday 6 September 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.21, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LAAJAJ Rachid (PSE) : *
Friday 6 September 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.21, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LAAJAJ Rachid (PSE) : *
Friday 21 June 2019 12:45-13:45
HU Irène (PSE) : Man Overboard! Industrial Fishing as Driver of Out-Migration in Africa
Friday 14 June 2019 12:45-13:45
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Friday 7 June 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R1.09, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
DUTRONC-POSTEL Paul (PSE) : Economic performance, land expropriation and bureaucrat promotion in China
Maiting Zhuang
Friday 24 May 2019 12:45-13:45
Room R1-09, Campus Jourdan
OLCKERS Matthew (PSE) : Sports betting in Kenya
Friday 17 May 2019 12:45-13:45
LEHNE Jonathan (PSE) : Administering voter suppression? Evidence from 140 million voters' registrations in India
Friday 10 May 2019 12:45-13:45
GIGNOUX Jérémie (PSE) : Spillovers of elite school admission on origin school peers, evidence from Peru
Ricardo Estrada and Agustina Hatrick
Friday 26 April 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
VANDEN EYNDE Oliver (PSE) : Security Transitions
Friday 19 April 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
CORDONNIER Victor (PSE) : Land scarcity and fertility in Ethiopia
Friday 12 April 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R1-09, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
ZHUANG Maiting (PSE) : TV shows, social media and anti-Japanese protests in China
Friday 5 April 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BEHAGHEL Luc (PSE) : Feeding the cows
Friday 22 March 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
CRESPIN-BOUCAUD Juliette (PSE) : Interethnic marriages in Kenya
Friday 15 March 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
DESCHENES Sarah (PSE) : Should we use list experiments to measure domestic violence? Evidence from rural Burkina Faso
Friday 8 March 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
SINGH Manpreet (PSE) : Endogenous Institutions: a network experiment in Nepal
Giulio Iacobelli
Friday 1 March 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ Martin (PSE) : Mass Migration and Education over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora in Latin America
Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of mass migration on human capital accumulation at origin over a century. I examine one of the largest migration episodes in the XX century, the Galician diaspora in Latin America. Using data from different historical sources I build a unique database of all Galician villages from 1860 to today with information on migration, literacy rates, migrants' associations and their investments at origin. The identification relies on exogenous variation provided by pull and push factors in combination with a proxy of migrant networks. The results show that in the period 1900-1930, migration significantly increased literacy rates due to the selection of illiterate individuals into migration and an increase in the stock of literate ones. I provide suggestive evidence that literate migrants were more likely to return. Historical migration (1900-1930) is associated with more schools per capita and higher enrolment rates in the 1970s as well as higher schooling levels over 1981-2011. These findings are largely explained by the construction of schools by migrants' associations in 1910-1940 and by a change in perceptions about the value of education.
Friday 22 February 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
KNEBELMANN Justine : Big Bills on Uganda’s Sidewalks? Value-added Taxes under Limited Taxpayer and State Capacity
Miguel Almunia, Jonas Hjort and Lin Tian
Friday 15 February 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
POULIQUEN Victor (PSE) : Can Firm Formalization reduce Intra-Household Constraints? Experimental Evidence from Benin
Friday 8 February 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
GITTARD Mélanie (PSE) : Climate Change, Migration and Population in Kenya
Friday 1 February 2019 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
COGNEAU Denis (PSE) : Malaria Control in Africa
Wednesday 16 January 2019 12:30-13:30
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
TARAZ Vis (Smith College) : Climate change, social protection, and crop yields: Evidence from India
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Abstract
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the world’s largest public works program, has been demonstrated to have beneficial impacts on a wide range of outcomes, but its effects on agricultural productivity have been relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). I test whether NREGA modulates the impact of adverse weather shocks on agricultural yields. My empirical strategy exploits the staggered roll-out of NREGA and random fluctuations in weather. Using nationwide data, I find evidence that NREGA makes yields more sensitive to adverse weather shocks. The effects are most pronounced for labor-intensive crops, indicating that labor market effects may drive my results. My results suggest that the household-level consumption-smoothing benefits of NREGA must be balanced against the challenges to national food security that India faces, particularly in the face of climate change. Hence, implementing complementary programs such as investing in improved seed varieties, expanding extension services and promoting farm mechanization is critical.
Friday 21 December 2018 12:45-13:45
The session was canceled.
R2.01, campus Jourdan
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Friday 14 December 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
LUKSIC Juan Diego (PSE) : Impact of South-South migration on the Chilean school system
Friday 7 December 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
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Friday 30 November 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R1.09, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
VERA Julieta (PSE) : When fathers are gone: the consequences of paternal absence on early childhood development
Friday 23 November 2018 12:45-13:45
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Friday 9 November 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
STEIN Mattea (PSE) : Know-how and know-who: Effects of a randomized training on network changes among small enterprise owners in Uganda
Friday 26 October 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
SALDARRIAGA Víctor (PSE) : A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
Abstract
Do women suffer more abuse from their partners during times of economic hardship? We address this inquiry by exploring whether and how exposure to rainfall shocks affects violence against women in rural Peru, where agriculture constitutes the main economic activity and crop yields largely depend on weather realizations. We fi nd sizable impacts: exposure to an event of drought (but not flood) during the last rainy season increases the prevalence of physical violence perpetrated by male partners against women by 65 percent. Moreover, we find that women are 60 percent more likely to suffer physical trauma from the abuse -- a result that is caused by the experience of more frequent, but not more severe, violent acts. These results may be explained by two underlying mechanisms: a decline in the time couples spend together that results from changes in spouses' employment patterns and that increases suspicion towards women and an increase in stress levels that leads to undesired behaviors such as alcohol-use disorders and alcohol-related aggressions from men.
Friday 19 October 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
DUTRONC-POSTEL Paul (PSE) : Pensions and elderly migrations in South Africa
Alessandro TONDINI (PSE)
Friday 12 October 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01
MARGOLIS David (PSE) : Constrained Occupational Choice
Friday 5 October 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2.01, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
BECERRA VALBUENA Luis : The Impact of Formalizing Land Rights on Deforestation: Experimental Evidence from Benin
Liam Wren Lewis and Kenneth Houngbedji
Friday 28 September 2018 12:45-13:45
BARROWS Geoffrey (CNRS, Polytechnique) : The Economic Benefits versus Environmental Costs of India’s Coal-Fired Power Plants
Friday 21 September 2018 12:45-13:45
NAVARRETE H. Nicolas (Paris School of Economics ) : Money can buy me life. The Effect of a Basic Pension on Mortality: a Regression Discontinuity Design
Abstract
We estimate the effect of a permanent income increase for poor elderly on their health outcomes. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants monthly payments of 40 percent of the minimum wage to pensionless retirees. Four years after applying, pension recipients are 2.5 percentage points less likely to die. Effects are concentrated on pension recipients living without working-age relatives, who in turn have more children. This seems explained by pre-existing income transfers from working-age relatives to retirees, which cease when payments begin. Results suggest that increasing income for older individuals reduce health inequalities across income groups, and mitigate the intergenerational transmission of poverty by alleviating the financial burden on younger relatives.
Friday 22 June 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
FERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ Martin (PSE) : Mass Migration and the Education of the Left Behind: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora in The Americas
Friday 15 June 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LEHNE Jonathan (PSE) : An opium curse? The long-run consequences of narcotics cultivation in British India
Friday 8 June 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE) : Colonial origins and teaching practices: evidence from Cameroon
Yannick Dupraz (Warwick University)
Friday 1 June 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ATALLAH Marian : Skills and Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Evidence from the World Bank's STEP surveys
Friday 25 May 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
KNEBELMANN Justine : Bringing property owners into the tax net: avenues of fiscal capacity. Experimental evidence from Dakar, Senegal
Friday 18 May 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ZHUANG Maiting (PSE) : TV shows, social media and anti-Japanese sentiment in China
Friday 4 May 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
PINTO Gustavo (PUC-Rio) : Stay at home with Grandma, Mom is going to work
Friday 20 April 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DESCHENES Sarah (PSE) : Assessing the Effects of an Education Policy on Women's Wellbeing : Evidence from Benin
Rozenn Hotte (PSE)
Friday 13 April 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DUPRAZ Yannick (University College Dublin) : The Effect of Education on Polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon
Pierre André (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
Friday 6 April 2018 13:15-14:15
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MEHMOOD Sultan : Judiciary’s Achilles Heel: Executive Control via Appointment Power
Abstract
To what extent does the presidential appointment of judges in the superior courts impact judicial decision making? We document a substantial increase in judicial independence and reduced case delay in Pakistan, as a result of a judicial selection reform in 2010 that changed the selection procedure of the judges from the president appointing the judges to the selection of judges by a judicial commission. Using mandatory retirement age as an instrument for new appointments, we are able to estimate the causal effect of the new appointment procedure on judicial independence and case delay. Better enforcement of laws regulating land disputes with government agencies is the key mechanism driving these results. We further show that the judges selected under the new procedure are significantly less likely to be politically active prior to their appointments or receive the controversial “Prime Minister’s Assistance Package” (that awards residential plots to the judges). The new judges who did accept the package are more likely to rule in favour of the government.
Friday 30 March 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LUKSIC Juan Diego (PSE) : Impact of a large earthquake in Chile on school learning outcomes
Friday 16 March 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
JAROTSCHKIN Alexandra (PSE) : Diffusion of (non-)discriminatory culture: Evidence from Stalin's ethnic deportations.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE) and Alain Blum (INED,EHESS)
Friday 9 March 2018 13:15-14:15
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
OBERLANDER Lisa : TV exposure, food consumption and health outcomes - evidence from Indonesia
Friday 23 February 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SARDOSCHAU Sulin : Children of War: Violence and Health after the 2003 Iraq Invasion
Friday 16 February 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DESCHENES Sarah (PSE) : Household structure, son preference and domestic violence in Burkina Faso
Friday 9 February 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GARRIGA Santiago (Paris School of Economics) : Cash for Whom? Incidence of a Conditional Cash Transfer in Argentina
Friday 2 February 2018 12:45-13:45
The session was canceled.
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
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Friday 26 January 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CRESPIN-BOUCAUD Juliette (PSE) : Intermarriage in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethnicity and religion
Friday 19 January 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BARRERA Oscar : The electoral power of weapons: evidence from the Colombian conflict
Friday 12 January 2018 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
IACOBELLI Giulio : Social proximity and choice of monitors: Lab in the field experiment in Nepal
SINGH Manpreet (PSE)
Friday 15 December 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BAH Tijan (University of Navarra) : Understanding Willingness to Migrate Illegally: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment
Catia Batista (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Friday 8 December 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MCCAIG Brian (Wilfrid Laurier University) : FDI and human capital: Evidence from Vietnam
Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College) and Nancy Wu (University of Oxford)
Abstract
We examine the impacts on education of the rapid growth of FDI jobs in Vietnam between 2000 and 2008. We exploit the variation in timing of FDI job growth across provinces in Vietnam. Using cohort analysis from census data we demonstrate that FDI has mixed effects on years of schooling that depend critically on the exact specification. We supplement this analysis with nationally representative individual panel data that allows us to observe individual-level transitions from attending school to not attending school. We find evidence of an increase in school attendance in response to FDI jobs, but mixed evidence on the highest grade completed.
Friday 1 December 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CASANUEVA ARTIS Annalí (PSE) : Can social movements change the political landscape of a country?
Friday 24 November 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TONDINI Alessandro (Paris School of Economics) : Entrepreneurs as Role Models: Promoting Entrepreneurial Aspirations among High School Students in South Africa
Luc Behaghel (PSE, INRA), David Margolis (PSE, CNRS), Patrizio Piraino (UCT)
Friday 17 November 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
STEIN Mattea (PSE) : Re-forming links: Effects of a randomized training on business network changes among small enterprises in Uganda
Friday 27 October 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
OLCKERS Matthew (PSE) : Friend-based targeting
Friday 20 October 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DUTRONC-POSTEL Paul (PSE) : Land expropriation and bureaucrat promotion in China
Maiting Zhuang (PSE)
Friday 6 October 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
JATIVA Ximena : Unintended Consequences of Road Rehabilitation in Tanzania: Market Participation, Prices and Welfare
Christelle Dumas (U. Fribourg)
Friday 29 September 2017 12:30-14:00
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ESTRADA Ricardo : *
Friday 23 June 2017 12:45-13:45
R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VILLAR Paola (PSE) : Private Health Investments under Competing Risks : Evidence from Malaria Control in Senegal
Pauline ROSSI (University of Amsterdam)
Friday 23 June 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
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Friday 2 June 2017 12:45-13:45
R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BEHAGHEL Luc (PSE) : Making agricultural extension work: pre-analysis plan
Karen MACOURS & Jérémie GIGNOUX
Friday 12 May 2017 12:45-13:45
R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
JOHN Anett (CREST&ENSAE) : Maintaining Repayment Discipline while Reducing Peer Pressure in Microfinance: Repayment Flexibility vs Social Insurance
Friday 28 April 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LEHNE Jonathan (PSE) : Administering Patronage? Bureaucrats and Political Targeting of Infrastructure in India
Friday 21 April 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
HOTTE Rozenn : Demand for Insurance and Within-Kin-Group Marriage: Evidence from a West African Country
Karine MARAZYAN
Friday 14 April 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle A2, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TRAKO Iva (Pse) : Does Domestic Violence Inhibit Human Capital Investment? Evidence from Peru's Women Emergency Centers
Friday 31 March 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
GIGNOUX Jérémie (PSE) : Implementation and impacts of input subsidies for annual crops, evidence from Haïti
Karen Macours, Kelsey Wright et Dan Stein
Friday 24 March 2017 12:45-13:45
The session was canceled.
SARDOSCHAU Sulin : *
Friday 17 March 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle R2-20 (Nouveau bâtiment), Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 7514 Paris
SCHMUTZ Benoit (Crest,IPP,Polytechnique) : Intragovernmental conflict and media censorship: evidence from newspaper reports of corruption scandals in China
Friday 10 March 2017 12:00-13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
RUDDER Jessica (UC Davis, PSE) : *
Friday 3 March 2017 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan - bâitment A - rdc - Salle A2
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE) : Primary School Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study of Primary School Systems in Ghana and Ivory Coast
Friday 24 February 2017 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan - Bâtiment E - Rez-de-Chausée-Salle E101
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Friday 17 February 2017 12:45-13:45
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
POULIQUEN Victor (PSE) : Using Technology to Improve Governance : Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing in Tajikistan
Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank Development Research Group)
Friday 3 February 2017 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan - Salle 8
DELESALLE Esther (Univeristé de Cergy Pontoise) : Education Benefits and Labor Market Distribution of Universal Primary Education Program: Evidence from Tanzania
Friday 3 February 2017 12:30-13:45
Campus Jourdan - rdc - bâtiment A - Salle A2
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Friday 20 January 2017 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan - Bâtiment G - Salle 8 (48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
VANDEVELDE Senne (KU Leuven) : Agricultural Extension Video Messages and Farmer Knowledge: Evidence from Uganda
Friday 6 January 2017 12:45-13:45
BERTELLI Olivia (DIAL) : Small but profitable. Quantifying returns to cattle value in rural Uganda
Friday 25 November 2016 12:45-13:45
MARSAUDON Antoine (PSE) : Does democracy reduce the HIV infection, evidence from Kenya
Friday 4 November 2016 12:45-13:45
HEUSCH Niklas ... (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) : How is informal health care for children in Ghana? (And why is it so bad?
Friday 21 October 2016 12:45-13:45
AMMON Christina (University of Warwick) : Farmer Outside Options & Relational Contracts: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Friday 23 September 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment A, rez-de-chaussée, salle 2
TONDINI Alessandro (Paris School of Economics) : The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Informality: Evidence from South Africa’s Child Support Grant
Friday 10 June 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
ROSSI Pauline (PSE) : Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa.
Friday 3 June 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
SARDOSCHAU Sulin : Immigration, Social Capital, and Political Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment for Decentralized Refugee Housing in Germany
Friday 27 May 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment A, rez-de-chaussée, salle 2
TREIBICH Carole (AMSE) : Estimating misreporting in condom use: Evidence from a list experiment among female sex workers in Dakar
Friday 20 May 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
TRAKO Iva (Pse) : The Impact of Conflict Displacement on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Post-War Kosovo
Wednesday 4 May 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
HERGHELEGIU Cristina (ENS-PSE) : The political economy of non-tariff measures
Friday 29 April 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
BARRERA Oscar : Text Messages, Behavioural Changes and Cognitive Stimulation in Early Childhood
Friday 15 April 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
BOBBA Matteo (TSE) : Learning About Oneself: The Effects of Signaling Academic Ability on School Choice"
Friday 1 April 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
STEIN Mattea (PSE) : Re-forming links - Effects of a randomized training on business network changes among small enterprises in Uganda
Friday 18 March 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VINEZ Margaux (PSE) : History and access to land on the frontier
Friday 4 March 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
COMBLON Virginie (DIAL) : Gender asymmetries in labor supply responses to health shocks in Senegal
Karine Marazyan (IEDES)
Friday 19 February 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
SIMON Rebecca (LSE) : The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie: Public employment and inequality in Kenya since Independence
Friday 29 January 2016 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VELJANOSKA Stefanija (PSE) : Can land fragmentation reduce the exposure of rural households to weather variability?
Friday 22 January 2016 12:15-13:45
FERRIÈRE Axelle (PSE) : To give or not to give? How do other donors react to European food aid allocation?
Friday 8 January 2016 12:15-13:45
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Friday 18 December 2015 12:45-13:45
DEL VALLE Alejandro (Georgia State University) : *
Friday 4 December 2015 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
BERTELLI Olivia : Investing in cattle as an alternative to lack of saving services? Evidence from rural Uganda
Friday 20 November 2015 12:45-13:45
HILGER Anne : Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, social networks and wages in Bangladesh
Friday 6 November 2015 12:45-13:45
CHRISTIAN Sikandra (Berkeley, PSE) : Store Credit as Informal Insurance in Rural Yemen
Friday 23 October 2015 12:15-13:45
DIMRI Aditi : Patrilocality Norm and Household Decision-making: Does the presence of in-laws affect the married women in India?
Friday 9 October 2015 12:45-13:45
ASHER Sam (Oxford) : TBA
Thursday 7 May 2015 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
FERRANDO Mery (UCL and PSE) : "Educational Outcomes of Minorities: the Impact of Politicians"
Thursday 7 May 2015 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
FERRANDO Mery (UCL and PSE) : "Educational Outcomes of Minorities: the Impact of Politicians"
Friday 13 February 2015 12:15-13:15
HOUNGBEDJI Kenneth (PSE) : Early Effects of Land Registration in Benin
Co-author(s) : Markus Goldstein, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod
Friday 13 February 2015 12:15-13:15
HOUNGBEDJI Kenneth (PSE) : Early Effects of Land Registration in Benin
Co-author(s) : Markus Goldstein, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod
Friday 16 January 2015 13:00-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 10
BERTELLI Olivia (PSE) : Fertility, food security and agriculture production in times of climate shocks
Friday 16 January 2015 13:00-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 10
BERTELLI Olivia (PSE) : Fertility, food security and agriculture production in times of climate shocks
Friday 19 December 2014 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
LIBOIS François (UNamur / PSE) : Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Friday 19 December 2014 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
LIBOIS François (UNamur / PSE) : Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Friday 12 December 2014 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
IMBERT Clément : Short-Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from India
Friday 12 December 2014 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
IMBERT Clément : Short-Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from India
Friday 5 December 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VALENCIA CAICEDO Felipe (Pompeu Fabra / LSE) : The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South America
Friday 5 December 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VALENCIA CAICEDO Felipe (Pompeu Fabra / LSE) : The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South America
Friday 21 November 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VANDEN EYNDE Oliver (PSE) : Job Performance in the Kenyan Police (1940-1970)
Friday 21 November 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VANDEN EYNDE Oliver (PSE) : Job Performance in the Kenyan Police (1940-1970)
Friday 7 November 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment E, rez-de-chaussée, salle 101
DIMRI Aditi (PSE) : Household Composition and Decision-Making: Living with In-Laws in India
Friday 24 October 2014 12:45-13:45
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
DANIELE Gianmarco (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) : Street vendors, incentives and self-regulation: a field study in urban India
Co-author(s) : Denni TOMMASI (ULB)
Friday 10 October 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
MURARD Elie (PSE) : The impact of migration on family left-behind: estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Friday 26 September 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
ROSSI Pauline (PSE) : Gender Preferences in Africa : a Comparative Analysis of Fertility Choices
Friday 20 June 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
MOLINA Teresa (PSE) : Migration, Co-Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua
Friday 13 June 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VANDEN EYNDE Olivier (PSE) : Mining Royalties and State Violence in India: an Iron Logic?
Friday 6 June 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
LOPEZ-AVILA Diana (PSE) : Parenting, Domestic Violence and Social Programs: Evidence from Colombia
Friday 23 May 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment E, rez-de-chaussée, salle 101
CLAVIJO Irene (PSE) : Household Shocks, Educational Aspirations and Mobility prospects: Evidence from Peru
Wednesday 7 May 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 10
BOLTZ Marie (PSE) : Anticipating Polygyny: How is Household Economics Affected ?
Friday 11 April 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
ZIPARO Roberta (PSE) : Household public goods, incomplete information and mutual insurance between household members
Friday 4 April 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
SILVE Arthur (PSE) : Two models on fiscal competition and expropriation
Friday 21 March 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment A, rez-de-chaussée, salle 2
HOUNGBEDJI Kenneth (PSE) : Land Registration and Gender Concerns in Rural Benin
Friday 7 March 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
MESNARD Alice (City University London, CEPR, IFS) : Asymmetry of information within family networks
Friday 14 February 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
TOBIN Lara (PSE) : Land use, agricultural productivity and urbanisation in Ghana
Friday 7 February 2014 12:30-13:30
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 10
TREIBICH Carole (PSE) : Your money or your life! The influence of injury and fine expectations on helmet adoption by motorcyclists in Delhi
Friday 24 January 2014 13:00-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 10
FERRIÈRE Nathalie (Pse) : Does food aid disrupt local food markets ?
ATTENTION EXCEPTIONNELLEMENT DEBUT DU SEMINAIRE A 13H00 EN SALLE 10
Friday 6 December 2013 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
VARELA Liliana (PSE) : Financial Liberalization, Competition and Productivity
Abstract
Cross-country studies associate financial liberalization with increases in aggregate productivity. This paper argues that this finding can be mainly attributed to reductions in distortions in capital markets that promote competition and encourage firms' investments in technology. I first develop a simple small open economy model in which capital controls distort access to international borrowing. I show that this distortion can affect market competition and firms’ innovation incentives. Financial liberalization removes this distortion and fosters investments in technology through two forces. First, better credit conditions encourage firms that gain access to international funds to raise their innovation efforts. Second, their market rivals respond to the threat of competition by innovating more. In my empirical analysis, I test the implications of the model using firm-level census data around the deregulation of international financial flows in Hungary. I exploit differences in the access to international borrowing prior to the reform as a source of cross-sectional variation. The results confirm that firms that gain access to international funds increased their productivity and their probability of undertaking innovation activities. I provide direct evidence that this is due to greater use of external funds. Responding to the tighter competition, their market rivals also increased their investments in technology. Tougher competition is also observed in reductions in markups, industry concentration, and productivity and markup dispersions within sectors. At the macro level, a decomposition exercise shows that, reversing the previous pattern of growth, the increase in within-firm productivity explains the bulk of the expansion aggregate productivity growth following the liberalization.
Friday 22 November 2013 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
ROGGER Dan (University College of London) : The Causes and Consequences of Political Interference in Bureaucratic Implementation: Evidence from Nigeria
Abstract
Both politicians and bureaucrats are claimed as crucial to development and growth. This paper investigates key margins of interaction between these groups. Using data from the Federal Government of Nigeria, I study how political incentives influence which organizations politicians delegate to. Second, I collect surveys of a representative sample of civil servants from these organizations, and use them to investigate whether politicians follow up this delegation by directly engaging with bureaucrats. I find that politicians facing political competition delegate to more effective organizations, and engage with bureaucrats more intensively. Finally, I use evaluation data on the implementation of 4493 public projects implemented by these organizations to assess how delegation and engagement affects project implementation. I find that delegation to agencies isolated from political interference improves project completion rates by roughly a third. The impacts of political engagement vary by the extent to which politicians face political competition. When politicians face low levels of competition, their engagement with bureaucrats retards project implementation significantly. When they face high political competition, the excesses of their negative behavior are constrained analogously to how market competition constrains the excesses of firm activity. The findings provide micro-level evidence of the changes in politician behavior that are induced by political competition, and the subsequent impacts on project implementation.
Friday 8 November 2013 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
MARTIN RAVALLION (Georgetown University) : Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries
Friday 18 October 2013 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
LOPEZ-AVILA Diana (PSE) : Time Allocation within poor households: who benefit from a safety net?
Co-autheur(s) : Alice MESNARD (City University)
Abstract
This article studies the within household time re-allocation generated by a social program in rural Colombia, differentiating the impact on children who lag behind in school. Children lagged behind in school tend to decrease their time in school activities and increase that in work with time, effect that is offset by the program. Results indicate that the program increases time spent at school activities equally for all type of children, though decreases time spent in income generating activities only for those lagged behind in school. At analyzing parents' time allocation, substitution in work activities comes from the mother rather than from the father, driven by households where the mother participates in the labor market.
Friday 4 October 2013 12:30-14:00
Campus Jourdan, bâtiment G, rez-de-chaussée, salle 8
MURARD Elie (PSE) : Family left behind, labor supply and household productionTheory and evidence from Mexican migration
Abstract
Why and how should the migration of a household member affect the labor supply of the family left behind ? This paper provides a simple theoretical framework to reconcile previous apparently conflicting results. Assuming a unitary model of the family and that migration is motivated only by earnings differential, I show first that migration reduces the wage labor of members left behind but can also increase their self-employed labor such as farm work. Second, that the family left behind does not increase its farm labor enough to offset completely the decrease in inputs of farm labor induced by the out-migration of a household member. Consequently, the total labor input on the farm, as well as the production output, declines ; or remains unchanged. Using an original panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey and instrumental variable estimation, I find that families reduce their participation (and hours) in wage work (non agricultural) and increase their self-employed labor (especially farming) in response to the international migration of a household member in the U.S. . This increase in self-employed work is not associated with an increase in the household production output or labor input. The estimates additionally suggest that U.S. migration does not increase the acquisition (or expenditures) of non-labor agricultural inputs (livestock, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds...). These results are consistent with the predictions of the model.
Friday 21 June 2013 12:30-13:30
ESTRADA Ricardo (PSE) : *
Friday 14 June 2013 12:30-13:30
MARAZYAN Karine (PSE) : *
Friday 31 May 2013 12:30-13:30
MAVRIDIS Dimitris (PSE) : Happy on the Job ? Evidence from Indonesia on Employment and Subjective Well-Being
Co-author(s) : John Giles and Firman Witoelar
Friday 24 May 2013 12:30-13:30
SAKALLI Seyhun Orcan (PSE) : *
Friday 3 May 2013 12:30-13:30
BOUGUEN Adrien (PSE) : Early childhood, primary school, and cognition in a second best world: Evidence from a large-scale preschool construction experiment in Cambodia
Co-author(s) : Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau
Friday 26 April 2013 12:30-13:30
RAVALLION Martin (Georgetown University, World Bank ) : The Idea of Antipoverty Poverty
Friday 12 April 2013 12:30-13:30
BRODEUR Abel (PSE, LSE, IZA) : The Remnants of War: Sex industry in Thailand
Co-author(s) : Warn N. Lekfuangfu (UCL) et Yanos Zylberberg (CREI, UPF)
Abstract
This paper explores whether part of the sex industry in Thailand is explained by the presence of U.S. military personnel during the Vietnam War. We rely on prostitution data at a disaggregated level reporting the number of sex workers and the type of establishments and on data sets indicating the U.S. military bases in Thailand, contracts between locals and the U.S. Army as well as the bilateral transfers between the two countries. We find that this sudden demand boom during the war had long-run local effects on the sex industry. There is a positive relationship between the current number of sex workers and the location of U.S. military bases during the war. We examine historical evidence and exploit the presence of non U.S. military bases and the distance to the war front to verify that our results are not driven by selection or omitted variables. The evidence suggests that the current comparative advantage of Thailand in the sex industry may be explained by the evolution of norms and by the role of economies of scale. We then rely on the local demand boom during the war to analyze the economic consequences of the sex industry on other outcomes such as women's education and the size of the informal sector.
Friday 5 April 2013 12:30-13:30
SENNE Jean-Noël (PSE, DIAL) : Intrahousehold selection into migration: Evidence from a matched sample of migrants and origin households in Senegal
Co-author : Isabelle Chort
Friday 29 March 2013 12:30-13:30
MOLINA Teresa (PSE) : TBA
Friday 8 March 2013 12:30-13:30
CLAVIJO Irene (PSE) : Long-term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Economic Mobility
Friday 1 March 2013 12:30-13:45
ALBOUY David Yves (University of Michigan)
Friday 15 February 2013 12:30-13:30
TREIBICH Carole (PSE) : TBA
Friday 1 February 2013 12:30-13:30
BOLTZ Marie (PSE) : Savings and Family Solidarity: Evidence from Senegal
Friday 4 January 2013 12:30-13:30
DUPRAZ Yannick (PSE) : TBA
Friday 19 October 2012 12:30-13:30
HIRVONEN Kalle (Université de Sussex) : "Risk Sharing and Internal Migration"
Co-auteur : Joachim De Weerdt
Friday 5 October 2012 12:30-13:30
DIANA Lopez (PSE) : "Women decisions in a male domain: How a Conditional Cash Transfer can affect the Allocation of Resources leading to Greater Agriculture Diversification? Evidence from Nicaragua"
Co-auteur : Karen Macours
Friday 28 September 2012 12:30-13:30
LEHMAN Christian (PSE) : "General Equilibrium & Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers - Evidence from a Structural Model and Experimental Data"
Friday 29 June 2012 12:30-13:30
The session was canceled.
LOPEZ Diana (PSE)
Friday 22 June 2012 13:30-15:00
The session was canceled.
BOLTZ Marie (Paris School of Economics)
Friday 22 June 2012 13:00-15:00
ESTRADA Ricardo (PSE) : Can competitive-standardized exams select better teachers?
Thursday 7 June 2012 12:30-13:30
HARTWIG Renate (PSE, Erasmus University Rotterdam) : Investment Decisions of Small Entrepreneurs in a Context of Strong Sharing Norms
Friday 18 May 2012 12:30-13:30
LEHMAN Christian (PSE) : Local Economy Effects of Cash Transfers
Friday 11 May 2012 12:30-13:30
DEL VALLE Alejandro (PSE)
Friday 27 April 2012 12:30-13:30
ROUANET Léa (PSE)
Friday 20 April 2012 12:30-13:30
IMBERT Clément (PSE) : Candidate Entry and Reservation: Evidence from an Awareness Campaign in Rajasthan
Friday 30 March 2012 12:30-13:30
LORENCEAU Adrien (PSE)
Friday 16 March 2012 12:30-13:30
The session was canceled.
GADENNE Lucie : *
Friday 24 February 2012 12:30-13:30
TREIBICH Carole : Determinants of helmet use among two-wheeler users in New Delhi
Friday 3 December 2010 12:30-13:30
LEHMANN Christian (PSE) : *
Friday 19 November 2010 12:30-13:30
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Friday 5 November 2010 12:30-13:30
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Friday 15 October 2010 12:30-14:00
BOBBA Matteo (PSE) : Spatial Externalities and Social Interactions in Schooling Decisions
co-auteur(s) : Jérémie Gignoux
Full text [pdf]
Friday 1 October 2010 12:30-13:30
ZYLBERBERG Yanos : Do tropical typhoons smash community ties? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
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MEVEL Alice (PSE) : *
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BHERING Davi (PSE) : Davi Bhering
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Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BEKKOUCHE Yasmine (PSE) : *