48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Lundi 18 septembre : 13h-18h (amphithéâtre)
Mardi 19 septembre, 9h-13h : salle R2-21
Mardi 19 septembre, 14h-18h : Réunion PRME, salle R2-21
1st Barcelona-Paris Schools of Economics Joint Workshop on the “Economics of Immigration and Diversity”
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1st Barcelona-Paris Schools of Economics Joint Workshop on the “Economics of Immigration and Diversity”
September 18th, 2017
Sponsored by the Representation of Catalonia in France
Paris School of Economics, Paris
Jourdan Campus, Room R2-01 (2nd floor)
Workshop Organizers : Libertad Gonzalez (UPF), Hillel Rapoport (PSE)
Régulation | 12:00-14:00
Salle R1-14, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TOEWS Gerhard (Oxcarré, Oxford University) : Resource discoveries and FDI bonanzas : An illustration from Mozambique
VEZINA Pierre-Louis, King’s College London
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Mardi 19 septembre 2017
- Colloque Hospinnomics 2017
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48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Lundi 18 septembre : 13h-18h (amphithéâtre)
Mardi 19 septembre, 9h-13h : salle R2-21
Mardi 19 septembre, 14h-18h : Réunion PRME, salle R2-21
Economie appliquée | 12:30-13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
SOLOW Ben : Labor Market Effects of the Affordable Care Act : Evidence from Tax Notches
Kavan Kucko & Kevin Rinz
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States that declined to raise their Medicaid income eligibility cutoffs to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) created a “coverage gap” between their existing, often much lower Medicaid eligibility cutoffs and the FPL, the lowest level of income at which the ACA provides refundable, advanceable “premium tax credits” to subsidize the purchase of private insurance. Lacking access to any form of subsidized health insurance, residents of those states with income in that range face a strong incentive, in the form of a large, discrete increase in post-tax income (i.e. an upward notch) at the FPL, to increase their earnings and obtain the premium tax credit. We investigate the extent to which they respond to that incentive. Using the universe of tax returns, we document excess mass, or bunching, in the income distribution surrounding this notch. Consistent with Saez (2010), we find that bunching occurs only among filers with self-employment income. Specifically, filers without children and married filers with three or fewer children exhibit significant bunching. Analysis of tax data linked to labor supply measures from the American Community Survey, however, suggests that this bunching likely reflects a change in reported income rather than a change in true labor supply. We find no evidence that wage and salary workers adjust their labor supply in response to increased availability of directly purchased health insurance.
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Mercredi 20 septembre 2017
Soutenance de thèse : Anthony Lepinteur
Salle R2-21, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
Temps de Travail au Sein des Ménages, Normes Légales sur le Marché du Travail et Bien-être Subjectif
Sous la direction de CLARK Andrew et MARGOLIS David
Economie du développement | 16:30-18:00
Salle R2-01, campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
SUKHTANTAR Sandip (University of Virginia ) : General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs : Experimental Evidence from India-
MURALIDHARANY Karthik and NIEHAUSZ Paul
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Abstract Public employment programs play a large role in many developing countries’ anti-poverty strategies, but their impact on poverty reduction will depend on both direct program effects as well as indirect effects through changes induced in market wages and employment. We estimate both e-ects, exploiting a large-scale experiment that improved the implementation of India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Despite constant -scal outlays, the earnings of lowincome households rose 13.3%, driven overwhelmingly by market (90%) as opposed to program earnings (10%). Low-skilled wages increased by 6.1% and days without paid work fell 7.1%, while migration, land utilization and prices were una-ected. The market effects on wages, employment, and income also spilled over into neighboring sub-districts, and estimates that adjust for these spillovers are substantially larger, typically double the unadjusted magnitudes. These results highlight the importance of general equilibrium e-ects in program evaluation, and the feasibility of studying them using large-scale experiments.
Histoire économique | 12:30-14:00
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ASANTE Kofi (IAAST) : Fiscal Imperative and Colonial Power in the 19th Century Gold Coast
Jeudi 21 septembre 2017
Soutenance de thèse : Clémentine VAN EFFENTERRE
Salle R2-21, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
Essais sur les normes et les inégalités de genre
Campus Jourdan, amphithéâtre, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Comportement | 11:00-12:00
PSE 48, bld Jourdan 75014 PARIS Salle R2-21
LAPORTE Audrey (University of TORONTO) : Why Should Rational Smokers Find it Difficult to Quit ? Introducing Uncertainty into the Rational Addiction Model
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One problem with the Becker-Murphy model of Rational Addiction, at least in the eyes of many public health specialists, is that it does not explain why so many rational, forward looking, smokers should apparently find it so hard to quit, especially since the terminal conditions are part of an intertemporal optimization problem. In this paper we apply techniques of stochastic control theory to introduce uncertainty into the individual’s perception of how her stock of addiction will accumulate over time as a consequence of her time path of smoking. We assume that addiction capital is basically unobservable, so she cannot adjust her smoking behaviour according to a feedback policy rule but instead builds uncertainty into her consumption plan from the beginning. We discuss the differences between the equation explaining her lifetime smoking trajectory in the deterministic and stochastic cases, and find that the quadratic utility function which underlies the familiar lead-lag consumption form of rational addiction equation is not, in fact, capable of allowing for the type of uncertainty which we consider here.
TOM | 12:00-13:30
Salle R1-13, campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan - 750145 Paris
BOBTCHEFF Catherine (TSE-CNRS)
Vendredi 22 septembre 2017
Economie et psychologie | 11:00-12:30
MSE (room S/17), 106 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Econ.)
TBA
