sociology

Vulnerability, Territory, Population. From Critique to Public Policy

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term “vulnerable” was applied to “individuals” and to “populations”, “groups” and “countries” in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies ...

Rufat Samuel, Metzger Pascale

Wiley, Geography of Risk, 2024

sociology

The Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: Meta-analysis of Sibling Correlations From 18 Countries

The sibling correlation (SC), which estimates the total effect of family background (i.e., social origins), can be interpreted as measuring a society's inequality of opportunity. Its sensitivity to ob ...

Anderson Lewis R., Prag Patrick, Akimova Evelina T., Monden Christiaan

Demography 11579806., 2024

economics

How the "Ramsey formula" came to define time discounting in economics (1950-2000)

This article investigates the emergence and stabilization of the Ramsey formula as a major framework for discounting in economics. Despite widespread belief, the formula did not originate in Frank Ram ...

Cherrier Beatrice, Garcia Duarte Pedro

SSRN, 2024

sociology

Context matters when evacuating large cities: Shifting the focus from individual characteristics to location and social vulnerability

Climate change is driving extreme weather, heat and flooding, which increasingly require evacuations. Recent studies have found inconclusive results on the determinants of evacuation-related decisions ...

Rufat Samuel, Comby Emeline, Lhomme Serge, Santoni Victor

Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 162, December 2024, 103925, 2024

finance

On the chaotic expansion for counting processes

We introduce and study an alternative form of the chaotic expansion for Poisson functionals, using a very specific (non-equivalent) Girsanov transformation; we name this alternative form pseudo-chaoti ...

Hillairet Caroline, Réveillac Anthony

Electron. J. Probab. 29 1 - 33, 2024

economics

Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships

Public interventions in the apprenticeship market often aim to increase demand or returns. We set up a double-sided experiment with youth and firms to analyze a subsidized dual apprenticeship program. ...

Crépon Bruno, Premand Patrick

The Review of Economic Studies, 2024

economics

Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms

How do electoral incentives influence the choice to experiment with a policy reform that generates uncertain future benefits? To answer this question, we examine a two-period model of redistributive p ...

Boyer Pierre, Roberson Brian, Esslinger Christoph

American Economics Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2024

economics

Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands

We investigate the effect of exposure to refugees on locals’ preferences with regard to ethnic minorities using individual-level panel data from the Netherlands. The data combine self-reported prefe ...

Achard Pascal, Albrecht Sabina, Ghidoni Riccardo, Cettolin Elena, Suetens Sigrid

The Economic Journal, 2024

economics

The intergenerational (Im)mobility of immigrants

This paper studies the influence of pre-migration social background on the long-term economic assimilation of immigrants. I use unique French survey data to trace family histories over three generatio ...

Achard Pascal

Journal of Public Economics, Volume 238, October 2024, 105204, 2024

economics

Matching, centrality and the urban network

We propose a search and matching model of the urban network. When geography is fixed and the job finding rate decreases with distance, the interplay between firm entry and worker migration generates a ...

Schmutz-Bloch Benoît, Modibo Sidibé

Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 144, pages 103706, 2024