Lundi 18 juin
India-China Conference
Cepremap - Paris School of EconomicsIndia-China Conference, 18-19 June 2018
Location : R2-01, Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris Program
PSE Summer School
Amphithéâtre, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together over 250 participants from all over the world, with very high satisfaction.
Entirely run in English, the 2018 PSE Summer School proposes numerous one-week programs from June 18 to June 29.
Mardi 19 juin
India-China Conference
Cepremap - Paris School of EconomicsIndia-China Conference, 18-19 June 2018
Location : R2-01, Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris Program
PSE Summer School
Amphithéâtre, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together over 250 participants from all over the world, with very high satisfaction.
Entirely run in English, the 2018 PSE Summer School proposes numerous one-week programs from June 18 to June 29.
Economie appliquée | 12:30-13:30
R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SOTURA Aurélie (PSE) : Spatial disparities - France - 1960-2014
Co-authors : BONNET Florian (PSE)
Abstract
This study explores the evolution of spatial inequality in France from 1960 to 2014. It builds on works by Combes & al. (2011) and Roses & al. ( 2016) and shed new light on living standards convergence by using a new and unique database on income distribution of each French \textitdépartements since 1960. We have constructed this database using 4500 fiscal tabulations collected in the archives of the French Ministry of Finance, a new demographic database by Bonnet (2018), and income distribution for France computed by Garbinti $\&$ al. (2018). First we show that total income inequality in France comes mostly from within \textitdépartements inequality and that between \textitdépartements income inequality has strongly decreased during the 20th century. Second, while value added per capita inequality, after following an inverted U-shaped relationship from the middle of the 19th century since the 80’s, has considerably increased in the last decades, income inequality has decreased then stabilized. We argue that value added per capita inequality in the last decades has increased because value added has concentrated. This, we suspect, stems from agglomeration economies and skill-biased technical change in big cities. We cannot prove it with our data but we do find some evidence such as the fact that top earners have concentrated in urban \textitdépartements with big cities in the last decades. Increasing value added per capita inequality did not lead to increasing income divergence between \textitdépartements for two reasons : first, retirees relocating to non productive but attractive places have homogenized income sources over the French territory. Second, as we know from Guillot & al. (2016), net wage inequalities have decreased while labor cost inequalities have increased over the 1976-2010 period. Therefore, we believe that taxation has mitigated labor cost inequality leading to smaller spatial income inequality than value added per capita inequality.
Little Informal Seminar of the Ecole d’Economie de Paris | 17:00-18:00
Salle R1-11, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CRESPIN-BOUCAUD Juliette : Impact of Divorce on Children’s Educational Attainments : Evidence from Senegal
Co-authors : HOTTE Rozenn
Mercredi 20 juin
PSE Summer School
Amphithéâtre, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together over 250 participants from all over the world, with very high satisfaction.
Entirely run in English, the 2018 PSE Summer School proposes numerous one-week programs from June 18 to June 29.
Histoire économique | 12:30-14:00
Salle R1-13, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ROTHSCHILD Emma (Harvard) : An Endless History : Economic Life in Angoulême, 1713-1906 PEPES | 12:30-14:00
Salle R1-16, Campus Jourdan - 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
JIA Ruixue (UCSD) : The Value of Elite Education in China
Co-Authors : LI Hongbin
Abstract
This paper studies the labor market consequences of elite education in China, examines the relative importance of elite education and parental background, and sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the impacts of elite education on labor market outcomes. We overcome challenges of data availability and selection bias by compiling our own large-scale dataset and exploiting a discontinuity in elite university admissions eligibility that exists around college entrance exam cutoff scores. We find that receiving an elite education increases the monthly wages of workers by 30-40%. Elite education affects inter-generational mobility, but it does not change the influence that parental background has on employment outcomes. There is suggestive evidence that the wage premium is more likely to be explained by university-related networks and signaling than human capital. Keywords : education, mobility, human capital, China, college exam, college entrace, elite education
Jeudi 21 juin
PSE Summer School
Amphithéâtre, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together over 250 participants from all over the world, with very high satisfaction.
Entirely run in English, the 2018 PSE Summer School proposes numerous one-week programs from June 18 to June 29.
Comportement | 11:00-12:00
Salle R2-21, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VAN DER STRAETEN Karine (Toulouse School of Economics) : Voting corrupt politicians out of office : Evidence from an Experiment in Paraguay
CANETE Rumilda, MIQUEL Pepita (Toulouse School of Economics & IAST) and STRAUB Stephane (Toulouse School of Economics & IAST).
Abstract
Corruption is a major threat to economic and social development. Democracy in itself is not necessarily conducive to less corruption. Voters may lack information on politicians’ wrongdoings, and electoral institutions may make it hard for them to remove corrupt politicians from office. From these premises, one might expect that more information and more open electoral systems, that is, systems giving voters more freedom to express their preferences over individual candidates, should help remove corrupt politicians from office. We propose a simple theoretical model describing voters’ behavior under closed list and open list proportional representation systems, and derive predictions regarding the impact of electoral rules and information on candidates’ electoral prospects. We test these hypotheses in a survey experiment performed in Paraguay taking advantage of a rare social uprising following a corruption scandal. We find that under the more open system, supporters of the incumbent party -the most corrupt party- do actually exhibit a preference for corrupt politicians, and that this is not due to a lack of information. Besides, under the open system, vote shares for the big political parties increase, especially so for the incumbent. Based on this evidence, we challenge the conventional view that more open electoral systems are necessarily good at fighting corruption.
Travail et économie publique | 12:30-13:45
Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
RAUTE Anna (Queen Mary University London) : Like mother, like daughter ? Societal Determinants of Maternal Labour Supply – Evidence from the German reunification
Abstract
Do experiences during childhood and adolescence influence women’s return-to-work decisions after childbirth ? And to what extent does the current social environment shape maternal labor supply ? To address these questions, we exploit the unique setting of the German reunification. As a state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labour market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more conservative male breadwinner-model. After reunification, these two cultures clashed. Comparing East and West German mothers at both sides of the inner German border, within the same local labor market, we first show that East German mothers still return to work faster and at a higher rate and work longer hours than West German mothers. In contrast, West German women are much more likely to downgrade their occupation post birth, even 20 years after reunification. Exploiting an arguably exogenous change in the social network of West German mothers due to large-scale migration from East to West Germany right after the fall of the iron curtain, we further show that exposure to East German colleagues within a firm speeds up the return-to-work decision of West German mothers. Together, our findings highlight that although gender norms and respective behaviour are to some extent formed by the current social environment, they are strongly persistent across generation.
Vendredi 22 juin
PSE Summer School
Amphithéâtre, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
The Paris School of Economics Summer School offers research-oriented teaching by leading experts in their fields. Since 2016, it has brought together over 250 participants from all over the world, with very high satisfaction.
Entirely run in English, the 2018 PSE Summer School proposes numerous one-week programs from June 18 to June 29.
Economie et psychologie | 11:00-12:30
Salle S17, MSE
KOSZEGI Botond (CEU) : Browsing versus Studying : A Pro-Market Case for Regulation
Abstract
We identify a novel competition-policy-based argument for regulating the secondary features of complex or complexly-priced products when consumers have limited attention. We study a market in which each firm chooses two price components, a headline price and an additional price, and a consumer can either fully understand the offer of one firm (studying), or look at only the headline prices of two firms (browsing). Regulations capping the additional price or standardizing conditions under which the additional price can be charged lower prices and increase consumer welfare in a variety of environments. The core mechanism is simple : because consumers do not need to worry about regulated features, they can devote more attention to browsing, enhancing competition. Extending our model to multiple markets, we show that thebenefits of regulating one market may manifest themselves in other markets, and that in order to have a non-trivial pro-competitive effect, the regulations in question must be sufficiently broad in scope. As an auxiliary positive prediction, we show that because low-value consumers are often more likely to study than high-value consumers, the average price consumers pay can be increasing in the share of low-value consumers. This prediction helps explain why a number of essential products are more expensive in lower-income neighborhoods.Co-authors : Paul Heidhues, Johannes Johnen
Casual Friday | 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