Journees Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet 2018

Welcoming Coffee and Registration

Forewords

Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
"New Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification"
Chair: Christophe Muller

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 1

Coffee break

A1 - Health 1

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Tanguy Le Fur

› Blood Donation under Risk Aversion: Theory and Empirical Findings in the French Context - Nicolas Sirven, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquée en Economie de la Santé, Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Nutrition, WASH and Child Physical Growth - Bansi Malde, University of Kent 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Inclusion of health-related externalities in cost-effectiveness analysis: an illustration with parents of adolescents who self-harm - Sandy Tubeuf, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Health & Working Time: A Macroeconomic Perspective on the American Puzzle - Tanguy Le Fur, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A2 - Education & Development Programs

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Michael Dorsch

› "The winner takes it all" or a story of the optimal allocation of the European Cohesion Fund - Benoit DICHARRY, BETA- 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa - Sara Tonini, University of Cape Town 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Assessing the Eﬀects of an Education Policy on Women's Wellbeing : Evidence from Benin - Rozenn Hotte, Paris School of Economics 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Learning to constrain: Political competition and randomized controlled trials in development - michael dorsch, Central European University 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A3 - Environment

Room 005 - E. Jaques-Dalcroze

Chair: Stéphan Marette

› The price elasticity of African elephant poaching - Quy-Toan Do, World Bank 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Who should abate carbon emissions? Optimal climate policy when national preferences determine its implementation - Ulrike Kornek, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Anchoring effect of VSL estimates on previous studies - Victor Champonnois, Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Consumers' preferences and environmental tax: results from an experiment with milk - Stephan Marette, INRA 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A4 - Gender & Discrimination

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Chair: Thomas Breda

› Are cash transfers better chunky or smooth? Impact evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer program to women in northwest Nigeria - Sreelakshmi Papineni, The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Do Employment Opportunities Decrease for Unemployed Older Workers? - Kadija Charni, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› The Racial Wage Gap and the Great Recession - Maxime Gueuder, Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Can female role models reduce the gender gap in science? Evidence from classroom interventions in French high schools - thomas breda, Paris School of Economics 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A5 - Political economy 1

Room 213 - Cézanne

Chair: Andrew Pickering

› Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts - Vítězslav Titl, Catholic University of Leuven 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Inequality and Growth in the 21st Century - Weijie Luo, University of York 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Revisiting yardstick competition and spillover effects in in the new era of spatial econometrics: evidence from Italian cities - masimiliano ferraresi, University of Ferrara, European Commission 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Ideological Polarization and Government Debt - Andrew Pickering, Department of Economics and Related Studies 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A6 - Economics of the elderly

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: Helmuth Cremer

› Long-Term Care Insurance: Knowledge Barriers, Risk Perception and Adverse Selection - Marie Louise Leroux, Economics Department, ESG-UQAM 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› Dynamic Consistency and Regret - T. Scott Findley, Utah State University 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Envy in Mission-Oriented Organizations - Francesca Barigozzi, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Caregivers in the family: daughters, sons and social norms - Helmuth Cremer, Toulouse School of Economics 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A7 - Economic demography

Room 001 - Paray

Chair: Grégory Ponthière

› The love for children hypothesis and the multiplicity of fertility rates - Thomas Seegmuller, CNRS & GREQAM - University of Aix-Marseille 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› A contribution to the theory of economic development and the demographic transition: fertility reversal under the HIV epidemic - Luca Gori, University of Genoa 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Spatial Wage Disparities: Do Firms and Their Organization Matter? - Grigorios Spanos, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness - Gregory Ponthiere, University Paris 12 and PSE 11:55-12:20 (25min)

A8 - Tax erosion

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: Salvador Barrios

› Tax Avoidance in Firms - Arthur BAUER, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) 10:40-11:05 (25min)

› A Macroeconomic Analysis of Corporate Tax Evasions - Noritaka Maebayashi, The University of Kitakyushu 11:05-11:30 (25min)

› Top income tax evasion and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the Panama Papers - Laïla Aït Bihi Ouali, Aix Marseille School of Economics - GREQAM 11:30-11:55 (25min)

› HOW LARGE IS THE CORPORATE TAX BASE EROSION AND PROFIT SHIFTING? A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH - Salvador Barrios, European Commission, Joint Reasearch Centre - JRC (Spain) 11:55-12:20 (25min)

Lunch

B1 - Household behavior and family economics

Room 003 - G. Dandelot

Chair: Pauline Morault

› Price Heterogeneity and Consumption Inequality - Riva Luca, Brown University 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Welfare Participation and Informal Transfers - Ilia Gouaref, Aix Marseille School of Economics 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› The Effect of a Longer Working Horizon on Individual and Family Labour Supply - Francesca Carta, Bank of Italy, Dondena 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Arranged Marriages under Transferable Utilities - Pauline Morault, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Département d'économie 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B2 - Human capital

Room 004 - T. Arbeau

Chair: Antonin Bergeaud

› Occupational mobility and vocational training over the life cycle - Anthony Terriau, Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Peer Effects and Educational Inequality - Eirini Tatsi, Stockholm University 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Education inequality and social reproduction: parents' aspirations versus labor market returns - Laurène Bocognano, Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› The innovation premium to low skill jobs - Antonin Bergeaud, Paris School of Economics, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B3 - Optimal taxation

Room 005 - E. Jaques-Dalcroze

Chair: Laurent Simula

› The Dark Side of Tax Progressivity: the Impact of Fiscal Flexibility on Tax Manipulation - Tommaso Giommoni, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Optimal mixed taxation, credit constraints and the timing of income tax reporting - Jean-Denis Garon, Universite du Quebec a Montreal 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Optimal Tax and Benefit Policies with Multiple Observables - Kevin Spiritus, KU Leuven [Leuven], Erasmus University Rotterdam 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› The distortive costs of income taxation - Laurent Simula, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon et GATE 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B4 - Political economy 2

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Chair: Garance Genicot

› Trump trumps Bush - Van der Linden Martin, Utah State University 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› The effects of voting franchise extension on education policy - Bjarne Strøm, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Party Ideology and Policies - Paolo Roberti, University of Bergamo 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Political Systems and the Inequality of Provision of Local Public Goods - Garance Genicot, Georgetown University 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B5 - Education

Room 213 - Cézanne

Chair: Mathieu Lefebvre

› Do incentives improve test scores? New evidence from a field experiment - Jayanta Sarkar, Queensland University of Technology 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Effects of School Referral on Bilingual Children's Outcomes - Benedicte Rouland, Auckland University of Technology 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Social Reproduction in the French Grandes Écoles throughout the 20th Century: the Insight of Surnames - Stéphane Benveniste, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Fiscal decentralization and the performance of higher education institutions: the case of Europe - Mathieu Lefebvre, Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B6 - Equity – Justice and other normative criteria and measurement

Room 103 - B. Martinu

Chair: Justin Leroux

› The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Equality of Opportunity from Regression Trees - Paul Hufe, ifo Munich 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Robust comparisons of inequality of opportunity for skills acquisition under the veil of ignorance - Edward Levavasseur, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Opportunity bias - CARMEN HERRERO, University of Alicante 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Solidarity Borders: Communitarian vs. Cosmopolitan Public Mandates - Justin Leroux, HEC Montréal 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B7 - Migration

Room 001 - Paray

Chair: Edoardo Slerca

› Immigration and Attitudes toward Redistribution in Europe - Elie Murard, Institute for the Study of Labour 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› Impact of Foreign Workforce on Labor Market Outcomes of Natives in Economic Downturn: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain 2007-2013 - Cem Ozguzel, Paris School of Economics 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› The political economy of the welfare eﬀect of immigration - Jerome Gonnot, TSE 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Stop invasion! Immigrants and the rise of populism in Europe - Edoardo Slerca, Università della Svizzera italiana 14:55-15:20 (25min)

B8 - Fiscal policies and behavior of economic agents

Room 104 - B. Bartok

Chair: Adrien Pacifico

› The elasticity of labor income : evidence from French tax and benefit reforms, 2006-2015 - Michael SICSIC, INSEE Paris, Centre de recherches en économie et droit - Paris 2 13:40-14:05 (25min)

› The effect of loss offset provisions on the asymmetric behaviour of corporate tax revenues in the business cycle - Katarzyna Habu, Utah State University, NBER 14:05-14:30 (25min)

› Optimal Taxation and Tax Complexity with Taxpayers Misperceptions - Antoine Ferey, CREST, Ecole Polytechnique 14:30-14:55 (25min)

› Rich households taxable income: A natural experiment - Adrien Pacifico, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 14:55-15:20 (25min)

Coffee break

John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
"Dominant Strategy Implementability and Zero Length Cycles"
Chair: Alain Trannoy

Auditorium - 2nd floor

Keynote 2

Concert offered by the Conservatoire

Transfer with private bus

Gala dinner