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Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith et Martin O'Connell
n° 22-1286, janvier 2022, révision mars 2022
The adoption of barcode scanning technology in the 1970's gave rise to a new form of data; scanner data. Soon afterwards researchers began using this new resource, and since then a large number of papers have exploited scanner data. The data provide detailed price, quantity and product...
Augustin Tapsoba
n° 22-1295, janvier 2022
Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location of conflict events from violence history data. It adapts the methodology developed in Tapsoba (...
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Christian Ponce de Leon et Sebastian Thieme
n° 22-129, janvier 2022
A longstanding question is whether policy uncertainty reduces private fixed investment in developing democracies. Yet studying the question empirically has proven challenging given that economic activity can cause as well as result from policy uncertainty. We investigate this issue within the...
Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 22-1297, janvier 2022
Many questions in political science require knowing not only what voters want (pref-erence orientation) but also how much they want it (preference intensity). In this paper, we assess two methods for measuring individual differences in preference intensity. One method — issue importance items —...
n° 22-130, janvier 2022
Felipe Gonzalez et Mounu Prem
n° 22-128, janvier 2022
We study the protest behavior of teenagers linked to a student killed by a stray bullet coming from a policeman in Chile. We use administrative data to follow the schoolmates of the victim and those living nearby the shooting in hundreds of protest and non-protest days. We find that police violence...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel, Alisa Weinberger et Sascha Wilhelm
n° 22-1288, janvier 2022
Based on a data set that we collected from the top research institutions in economics around the globe (including universities, business schools and other or- ganizations such as central banks), we document the underrepresentation of women in economics. For the 238 universities and business schools...
n° 22-1287, janvier 2022
Laurent Miclo et Pierre Patie
vol. 2301, janvier 2022, p. 117–141, Springer
Markovian intertwining relations between two Markov semigroups are related to the partial inclusion of the spectra of their generators, at least for finite ergodic processes. We check the limitations of this observation by investigating the Markov intertwining relations between the Ehrenfest, Yule...
Péter Bayer, Joel Brown, Johan Dubbeldam et Mark Broom
n° 22-1291, janvier 2022
