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Alessandro Tarozzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Toulouse : TSE, 20 mars 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MF 323
We describe findings from the first large-scale cluster randomized controlled trial in a developing country that evaluates the uptake of a health-protecting technology, insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs), through micro-consumer loans, as compared to free distribution and control conditions. Despite...
Joseph Altonji (University of Yale)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mars 2014, 15h30–17h00, salle MS 001
We analyze labor market outcomes of U.S. college graduates from the classes of 1976 to 2011, as a function of the economic conditions they graduated into. We categorize college majors by average economic outcomes and skill level of the major, predominantly the average earnings premium, and measure...
Olivier Faugeras (University Toulouse 1 - Capitole)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mars 2014, 14h00–15h15, salle MF 323
Coupling is a powerful probabilistic method which allows to turn distributional properties into their corresponding counterparts in terms of random variables. Skorohod's theorem, stochastic orders, recurrence and convergence to equilibrium of Markov chains (Doeblin's method), renewal and...
Jan Eeckhout (University College London and Barcelona GSE-UPF)
Toulouse : TSE, 18 mars 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Princeton)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mars 2014, 17h00–18h30, salle MS 001
We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes at the level of a sector in a given U.S. state to the...
Benjamin E. Hermalin (University of California - Berkeley)
TSE, 17 mars 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
Leaders are often able to reach at least some followers at an emotional level. But many followers could be rational and recognize a leader’s emotional appeals are likely hiding vital information. Despite such rational pessimism, this paper shows that wholly rational followers will nevertheless work...
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (University of New York)
TSE, 17 mars 2014, 12h30–14h00, salle MF 323
Grischa Perino (Universität Hamburg)
Toulouse : TSE, 17 mars 2014, 11h00–12h30, salle MS 001
Governments and environmental NGOs campaign for carbon footprint reductions by households. Many of the behavioral changes recommended reduce demand for goods produced by sectors covered by cap-and-trade schemes. With a binding cap, greenhouse gas emissions from those sectors do not change. I show...
Alain Trannoy (GREQAM-IDEP)
Toulouse : TSE, 14 mars 2014, 10h00–11h15, salle MS001
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. Individuals differ both in skills and migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We...
Allan Collard-Wexler (University of New York)
TSE, 10 mars 2014, 14h00–15h30, salle MF 323
We develop a hybrid Leontief/Cobb-Douglas production function model that characterizes how input shortages affect firms. As a case study, we analyze how “power holidays” affect daily production at large Indian textile plants, using data from Bloom et al. (2013). We then study the short-run effects...