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Mhairi Gibson (Bristol University)
Toulouse : IAST, 21 septembre 2018, 11h30–12h30, salle MF 323
Female genital cutting (FGC) has major implications for women’s health and well-being, and elimination is a key public health target. Barriers to achieving this include 1) obtaining accurate data on a sensitive and illegal topic, and 2) understanding how and why the practice is maintained and...
Ajit Singh (Artiman Ventures)
20 septembre 2018, 17h00–18h00, salle MS001
Off the coast of the islands of Galapagos, new life and new species are created there at a remarkable pace. It is Nature's platform for innovation. Where is its analog in the man-made world? What are the catalytic conditions that make entrepreneurship and innovation happen? Specifically, how does...
Pierre Weiss (CNRS ITAV)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 septembre 2018, 11h00–12h15, salle MS 003
David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 septembre 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives’ laborsupply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP).We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a nationalsample)...
Xavier Lambin
TSE & IAST, 19 septembre 2018, 12h30–13h30, salle MS003
Andrii Babii (University of North Carolina)
TSE, 18 septembre 2018, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
This paper studies non-identified linear ill-posed econometric models with estimated operator, including the nonparametric IV regression, the functional IV regression, and many other examples as special cases. We show that under identification failures, regularized estimators are consistent for the...
Nicolas Lambert (Stanford University)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 septembre 2018, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
At an initial time, an individual forms a belief about a future random outcome. As time passes, the individual may obtain, privately or subjectively, further information, until the outcome is eventually revealed. How can a protocol be devised that induces the individual, as a strict best response,...
Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 septembre 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MS001
Why does democracy occur? Most existing explanations view democracy as an institutional arrangement that solves a class conflict between a rich elite and the rest of the population. We study the logic of democratic transition when ethnic tensions are more salient than the poor/rich divide. We...
Mathias Thoenig (HEC Lausanne)
TSE, 17 septembre 2018, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
Peter Newberry (Pennsylvania State University)
TSE, 17 septembre 2018, 14h00–15h30, salle MS 001
We examine the economies of density associated with the expansion of Amazon's distribution network from 1999 to 2018. We demonstrate that, in placing a fulfillment center in a new state, Amazon faces a trade-off between the revenue implications of exposing local customers to sales tax on their...
