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Janet Currie (Princeton University)
TSE, November 6, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We consider a new source of racial disparities in test scores: African American students’ disproportionate exposure to environmental toxins, and, in particular, lead. Using a unique individual-level dataset of children’s preschool lead levels linked with future educational outcomes for children in...
Paris, France, November 6, 2015
Toulouse: IAST, November 5, 2015, 18:00–20:00, room Amphi Cujas
Xavier Giné (The World Bank)
Toulouse: TSE, November 5, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Decision-making under uncertainty depends not only on preferences, endow- ments and constraints but also on subjective probabilities. We elicit from a sample of farmers their beliefs about the timing of the onset of the monsoon, which signals the optimal time to plant. We assess the accuracy of...
José Leon (INRIA de Grenoble. UCV de Venezuela.)
Toulouse: TSE, November 5, 2015, 11:00–12:00, room MS 003
Ananya Sen (Toulouse School of Economics)
TSE & IAST, November 4, 2015, 12:30–13:30, room MS003
Alexandre Kohlhas (Institute for International Economic Studies - Stockholm)
TSE, November 3, 2015, 17:00–18:30, room MS 001
I study how to optimally set instrument and disclosure policy in a dispersed information model in which people learn about an unobserved state from economy-wide outcomes. A policy maker can use its information about the state either directly by disclosing it or indirectly through its choice of the...
Victor Lavy (Unversity of Warwick)
TSE, November 3, 2015, 15:30–17:00, room MS 001
In this paper, we estimate the influence of social networks on students’ educational attainment in school. Specifically, we investigate the impacts and mechanisms of separating from pre-existing social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school on students' academic...
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
TSE, November 2, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
We customize the aggregative game approach to oligopoly to study asymmetric media markets. Advertiser, platform, and consumer surplus are tied together by a simple summary statistic. When media are ad-financed and ads are a nuisance to consumers we establish see-saws between consumers and...
Meredith Fowlie (University of California, Berkeley)
Toulouse: TSE, November 2, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 003
We study default effects in the context of residential electricity pricing program choices. We implement a large-scale randomized control trial in which one treatment group is given the option to opt-in to time-based pricing while another is defauted onto a time-based pricing program but allowed to...
