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Sustainability Champion award : Julia Jadin
In October, the Teaching Awards honored exceptional work at the School, and we’re thrilled to announce that Julia Jadin, a dedicated PhD researcher, was recognized as the Sustainability Champion! Julia not only contributes to academic research for her PhD thesis but also leads training sessions in various Executive Education programs for the Solvay Lifelong Learning …
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Bram De Rock’s workshop – 15 years !
12 December 2023Celebrating 15 Years of Academic Excellence! What began as a modest gathering 15 years ago, with just six individuals in Bram De Rock‘s living room, has blossomed into an enriching tradition. On November 15, we marked this milestone with a vibrant gathering of 40 researchers, all affiliated with Belgian universities, sharing a keen interest in …
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Leone Fabrizio Won 3 Prizes for his paper Global Robots
12 December 2023Exciting News! Leone Fabrizio is on a winning streak! “Global Robots” secured three prestigious awards: Congratulations !!
Publications
Working paper : Welfare Effects of Indirect Tax Policies in West Africa (2023-19)
Bart Capéau , Alain Babatoundé & Romain Houssa
Working paper : A Spouse and a House are all we need? Housing Demand, Labor Supply and Divorce over the Lifecycle (2023-18)
Bram De Rock , Mariia Kovaleva & Tom Potoms
Working paper : Walk the Talk: Measuring Green Preferences with Social Media Data (2023-17)
Bram De Rock & Florine Le Henaff
Working paper : The Unintended Consequences of Trade Protection on the Environment (2023-16)
Taipeng LI , Lorenzo Trimarchi , Rui XIE & Guohao YANG
Working paper : Dynamic Factor Models: a Genealogy (2023-15)
Matteo Barigozzi & Marc Hallin
Calendar
- 22 March 2024
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22Mara Squiccianrini, Bocconi University
Friday, 12:15 - 13:30
Location: R42.5.103
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- 26 March 2024
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Miren Lafourcade, PSE
26 Mar, 14:00 - 15:15Title : Place-Based Policies:Opportunity for Deprived Schools or Zone-and-Shame Effect?
Abstract :Even though place-based policies involve large public transfers toward low-income neigh-
borhoods, they may also backfire by stigmatizing the targeted areas. This paper appeals tothe quasi-experimental discontinuity in a French reform that redrew the zoning map of subsi-
dized neighborhoods based on a sharp poverty cut-off to assess the “net" effect of place-basedpolicies on school outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find strong evi-
dence of stigma from policy designation, as public middle schools located in neighborhoodsbelow the poverty cut-off saw a significant decrease in their post-reform pupil enrollment
compared to their counterfactual analogues in unlabeled areas lying just above the threshold.
This "zone-and-shame" effect is immediate, it persists up to five years after the reform, and
it is triggered by the reactions of parents from all socioeconomic backgrounds, who started
avoiding public schools in labeled areas and shifted to those in unlabeled areas or, only for
wealthy parents, to private schools. There is also evidence of a short-lived decrease in pupils’test scores associated with this spatial resorting. We uncover, on the contrary, only weak ev-
idence of stigma reversion after an area loses its designation, suggesting hysteresis in badreputations conveyed by policy labeling.
Location: 2.103Mar
26Title : Place-Based Policies:Opportunity for Deprived Schools or Zone-and-Shame Effect?
Abstract :Even though place-based policies involve large public transfers toward low-income neigh-
borhoods, they may also backfire by stigmatizing the targeted areas. This paper appeals tothe quasi-experimental discontinuity in a French reform that redrew the zoning map of subsi-
dized neighborhoods based on a sharp poverty cut-off to assess the “net" effect of place-basedpolicies on school outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find strong evi-
dence of stigma from policy designation, as public middle schools located in neighborhoodsbelow the poverty cut-off saw a significant decrease in their post-reform pupil enrollment
compared to their counterfactual analogues in unlabeled areas lying just above the threshold.
This "zone-and-shame" effect is immediate, it persists up to five years after the reform, and
it is triggered by the reactions of parents from all socioeconomic backgrounds, who started
avoiding public schools in labeled areas and shifted to those in unlabeled areas or, only for
wealthy parents, to private schools. There is also evidence of a short-lived decrease in pupils’test scores associated with this spatial resorting. We uncover, on the contrary, only weak ev-
idence of stigma reversion after an area loses its designation, suggesting hysteresis in badreputations conveyed by policy labeling.
Miren Lafourcade, PSE
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:15
Location: 2.103
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- 27 March 2024
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Mar
27PhD Lecture - Raquel Fernandez, NYU
Wednesday, 10:00 - 12:30
Location: R42.2.110
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- 28 March 2024
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Mar
28PhD Lecture - Raquel Fernandez, NYU
Thursday, 10:00 - 17:00
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- 29 March 2024
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Mar
29Mariia Kovaleva, ECARES
Friday, 12:15 - 13:15
Location: R42.2.113
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- 16 April 2024
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Apr
16Jeanne Commault, Scences Po
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30
Location: 2.113
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- 18 April 2024
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Apr
18Paloma Lopez-Garcia, ECB
Thursday, 14:30 - 16:00
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- 19 April 2024
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19So Jin
Friday, 12:15 - 13:30
Location: R42.5.103
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- 23 April 2024
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23Martina Uccioli, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:15
Location: 2.103
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- 26 April 2024
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26Nacho Marra Artinano
Friday, 12:15 - 13:30
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