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