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Hippolyte d'Albis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
TSE, June 19, 2015, 11:00–12:15, room MS 003
This paper presents an analysis of the differential role of mortality for the optimal schooling and retirement age when the accumulation of human capital follows the so-called "Ben-Porath mechanism". We set up a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply at the extensive margin that allows...
Alexandre Vardoulakis
June 18, 2015, BDF, Paris
Hélène Couprie (CEREQ-Marseille)
Toulouse: TSE, June 16, 2015, 14:00–15:30, room MF 323
In this article we study the trajectories of French youths entering the labour market just after the end of formal education with a special focus on part time work. The survey “Enquete Generation” of Cereq is specially designed for that purpose since it follows during 7 years the educational and...
Eric Renault
June 16, 2015
Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts University)
Toulouse: TSE, June 15, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MF 323
Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in many developing countries. There is a significant literature on fuelwood markets but almost no studies on who is using the fuelwood collected. Is the fuelwood collected in rural areas used locally or by people living...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, June 15, 2015
Marco Mazzola (Université Paris 6)
Toulouse: TSE, June 12, 2015, 14:00–15:15, room MF 323
Stephanie Scholder (University of Bristol)
TSE, June 12, 2015, 11:00–12:30, room MS 001
We show that a nationally-implemented voucher policy - the UK Healthy Start Scheme - increased spending on fruit and vegetables by 15 percent. However, the effects were heterogeneous. In line with standard economic predictions, households that previously spent less than the value of the voucher...
Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, June 12–13, 2015
Abdelaati Daouia (Toulouse School of Economics - Gremaq)
Toulouse: TSE, June 9, 2015, 14:00–00:00, room MF 323
Quantiles and expectiles of a distribution are found to be useful descriptors of its tail in the same way as the median and mean are related to its central behavior. This paper considers a valuable alternative class to expectiles, called extremiles, which parallels the class of quantiles and...
