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David Austen-Smith (Northwestern University)
Toulouse: IAST, May 5, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MF 323
Richard Dunn (University of Connecticut)
TSE, May 5, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
This paper employs a novel identification strategy based on changes in the route students would use to commute between their home and their school as they transition to higher grades housed in different schools to investigate the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by...
Cyril Favre-Martinoz (ENSAI - Bruz)
Toulouse: TSE, May 4, 2017, 11:00–12:15, room MS 001
L'information géographique (plus précisément les coordonnées géographiques (x,y)) est une information de plus en plus présente dans les bases de données à notre disposition. Celle-ci peut être mobilisée à l'étape de construction du plan de sondage afin d'en améliorer son efficacité. L'idée sous-...
Pol Antràs (Harvard University)
Toulouse: TSE, May 4, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs). With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage is not only a function of the marginal cost at which that stage can be produced in a given country, but is also shaped by the proximity...
Urs Bergmann
TSE & IAST, May 3, 2017, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Thibaut Lamadon (University of Chicago)
TSE, May 2, 2017, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
We propose a framework to estimate earnings distributions and worker and firm unobserved heterogeneity on matched panel data. We introduce two models: a static model that allows for interaction effects between workers and firms, and a dynamic model that allows in addition for Markovian earnings...
Alberto Martin
May 2, 2017
William Kovacic (George Washington University and King's College London)
Toulouse: TSE, April 28, 2017, 15:30–17:30, room MF323
Russell David Gray (MPI-SHH)
Toulouse: IAST, April 28, 2017, 11:30–12:30, room MS 001
Mario Mazzocchi (University of Bologna)
TSE, April 28, 2017, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
(with Sara Capacci, Olivier Allais, and Celine Bonnet) We evaluate the ex-post effects of the tax on sweetened non-alcoholic drinks introduced in France in January 2012. The evaluation is based on a natural experiment, using household purchase data drawn from home scan consumer data from two French...
