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Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburg)
8 avril 2021, 15h30–16h45, Online
The Great Migration of Black Southerners has long been of interest to economists. In this paper, we document that also 18 million white Southerners moved to the rest of the country. Using data for all non-Southern counties, we show that these white Southerners had a transformative impact on the...
Philippe LeFloch (Université Pierre et Marie Curie; CNRS)
Toulouse : TSE, 8 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
We introduce a numerical methodology which applies to a broad class of partial differential equations and discrete models, and is referred to here as the {\sl transport-based mesh-free method}. It led us to several numerical algorithms which are now implemented in a Python library, called CodPy. We...
Marion Goussé (Université de Laval)
TSE, 6 avril 2021, 15h30–16h50, Zoom
Whereas marriage is still the dominant framework to raise a family, competitive partnerships emerge. Facing the increasing proportion of couples likely to cohabit rather than marry, some provincial governments of Canada have enhanced the commitment related to cohabitation to protect women and...
Shota Ichihashi (Bank of Canada)
6 avril 2021, 14h00–15h00, Zoom Meeting
We study competition for consumer attention in which platforms choose the addictiveness of their services. A more addictive platform yields consumers a lower utility of participation but a higher marginal utility of allocating attention. The impact of competition depends on the scarcity of...
Raúl Morales Resendiz (CEMLA )
2 avril 2021, 17h00–18h30, Online
Harish Natarajan (World Bank)
Cédric Lemaire (Orange)
Marek Kapicka (CERGE-EI)
TSE, 2 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, salle Zoom
This paper studies how labor income taxation interacts with the organization of knowledge and production, and ultimately the distribution of wages in the economy. A more progressive tax system reduces the time that managers allocate to work. This makes the organization of production less efficient...
Franck Ball (University of Nottingham)
Toulouse : TSE, 1 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Online
Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)
1 avril 2021, 11h00–12h15, Zoom
Does identity—one's concept of self—influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on labor supply. In a field experiment, casual laborers belonging to different castes choose whether to take up various real job...
