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Mario Pietrunti
June 18, 2019, BDF Paris
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 17, 2019, 11:15–12:00, Manufacture des Tabacs, room MS001
We test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an `individual' or a `social' channel. We conducted a randomized...
Costas Meghir (Yale Department of Economics)
Toulouse: TSE, June 17, 2019, 10:30–11:15, Manufacture des Tabacs, room MS001
The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a rise...
Monique Graf (Université de Neuchâtel)
Toulouse: TSE, June 13, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MF 323
The simplex is the geometrical locus of D-dimensional positive data with constant sum, called compositions. When modeling compositions, the well established strategy is to get rid of the constraint by applying a log-ratio transform (lrt) of the parts (elements of the composition). The Dirichlet...
Jaap Abbring (Tilburg School of Economics and Management)
TSE, June 11, 2019, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
We derive conditions for identification of sophisticated, quasi-hyperbolic time preferences in a finite horizon, dynamic discrete choice model under a set of economically motivated exclusion restrictions. Identification is reduced to characterizing of the zero set of two bivariate polynomial moment...
John Quiggin (School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia)
Toulouse: TSE, June 11, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
Ambiguity in the ordinary language sense is that available informa- tion is open to multiple interpretations. We model this by assuming that individuals are unaware of some possiblities relevant to the out- come of their decisions and that multiple probabilities may arise over an individuals...
Gilles Pages (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Toulouse: TSE, June 6, 2019, 11:00–12:15, room MC 201room MC 201
Originally devised in the Bell laboratories to optimize signal transmission in the 1950s, optimal vector quantization is also connected to data analysis as the ancestor of unsupervised classification method (k-means, big data,...). More generally, it provides optimal finite skeletons of a...
Martha Bailey (University of Michigan)
Toulouse: TSE, June 6, 2019, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper uses administrative tax data from the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (PFLA) on women’s careers. Our research design exploits the differential availability of paid leave for California women who gave...
Toulouse, June 6–7, 2019
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, June 6–7, 2019, room MS 001
