Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/view/marionbrouard/home?authuser=0m
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Research fields:
Primary fields: Public Economics
Secondary fields: Labor Economics
Presentation:
I am a third year PhD candidate at CREST. I am working under the supervision of Pierre Boyer and Camille Landais.
My research lies in the field of public economics and labour economics, with a focus on social insurance programs and labor market inequalities.
Job Market Paper:
Welfare effects of increasing transfers to young adults: Theory and Evidence.
Abstract: Despite experiencing disproportionate poverty, young adults encounter barriers to the implementation of targeted transfer programs due to policymakers’ concerns about potential adverse effects. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for comparing the local welfare effects of increasing government transfers to young adults versus older individuals. It encompasses various age-dependent behavioral responses to changes in government transfers, including educational and labor supply decisions, as well as interactions with parents-to-child private transfers from parents to children. Leveraging bank transaction data, I find that the social marginal utility of a policy targeting young adults compared to a policy targeting older individuals is 2 to 4 times larger, depending on the tagging of young adults. Accounting for fiscal costs, I find that the welfare effect of increasing government transfers to students from low-income families and young workers is 6 and 2 times higher than that of targeting older individuals, respectively. These findings suggest redistributing resources from older to younger individuals would be highly welfare-enhancing.