Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 24th of January Room : 3001 Louise Paul-Devlaux (Harvard) "Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco" Abstract :This paper examines how minimum wage policies affect gender gaps in employment and wages in a setting characterized by a large informal sector and wide initial gender […]
Sociology seminar - Thursdays Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Date: 25th January 2023 Place: room 3105 ZOOM : https://zoom.us/j/96820777040?pwd=OUgycU1NYmxWOEJCTk92OHpNTHc5dz09 Léa Pessin (ENSAE-CREST) - Racial-Ethnic Stratification in Work–Family Strategies among Black, Hispanic, and White Couples Abstract: This talk builds on work–family scholarship and intersectional frameworks to document racial-ethnic variation in couples’ work-family strategies, i.e., the […]
Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 25th of January Room : 3001 Florian Grosset (Columbia) "Complementarities in Labor Supply" Abstract :This paper examines complementarities in labor supply: to what extent does a person's desire to work at a firm depend on whether others in her social network also work at the […]
Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 26th of January Room : 3001 Justine Knebelmann (MIT J-PAL) "Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal" Abstract :The implementation of government programs requires a list or register of individuals who are eligible for the program. Building these registers accurately is a challenge […]
Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 29th of January Room : 3001 Gökce Gökkoca (TSE) "Antibiotic Stewardship in Primary Care: Evidence from Pay-for-Performance in France" Abstract :This paper investigates whether financial incentives for curbing antibiotic prescriptions are effective and how the design of incentives plays a role in influencing physician behavior. […]
Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 30th of January Room : 3001 Alina Ozhegova (Norwegian School of Economics) "Assortment Choice and Market Power under Uniform Pricing" Abstract :This paper studies how retailers strategically use product assortment to respond tolocal market conditions when prices are set at the national level. When firms […]
Applied Seminar Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 31th of January Room : 3001 Enrico Rubolino (Lausanne) "Market Externalities of Tax Evasion" Abstract : This paper shows that tax evasion significantly distorts market competition and firm growth. Using administrative data on the universe of firms in Italy, we compute a tax evasion proxy […]
Sociology seminar - Thursdays Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Date: 6th Febuary 2024 Place: room 3001 Felix ELWERT (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Causal decomposition of group disparities Abstract: Social scientists often ask how an intermediate treatment variable contributes to group-based outcome disparities. E.g., how does family formation contribute to the gender-wage gap; how […]
Applied Micro Seminar : Every Tuesday Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 27th Febuary Room : 3001 Marleen MARRA (Sciences Po) - A Market for Airport Slots Abstract : This paper explores the welfare impacts of introducing a market-based mechanism for the allocation of scarce airport take-off and landing slots. Instead of […]
Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance Time: 10.30 am Date: 29 th of February 2023 Room 1001 Simon SCHEIDEGGER (HEC Lausanne) "t.b.a." Abstract : Organizers: Peter TANKOV (CREST) - Olivier David ZERBIB (CREST) Sponsors: CREST
Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance Time: 11.30 am Date: 29 th of February 2023 Room Louis Daumas (CIRED) "Financial transition risks and the multiverse of mitigation pathways: A scenario-exploration exercise with a stock-flow consistent model" Abstract : This article proposes a novel methodology for forward-looking low-carbon transition risk assessment based on a large set of […]
Sociology seminar - Thursdays Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Date: 29 Febuary 2024 Place: room 3105 ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/97022088673?pwd=c0lkazlob2hIWE5zU2pnMlNpem5udz09 Caroline Bertron (Université Paris 8) - Educating the Wealth Elite. Studying Social Class and Schools with Economic Sociology Abstract: In this presentation I wish to offer an overview of my research on Swiss international boarding […]