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Financial Incentives and Competitive Pressure: The Case of the Hospital Industry
In the late 2000s, a regulatory reform dramatically strengthened the incentives of French nonprofit (NP) hospitals to attract patients. Exploiting exhaustive data for surgery treatments between 2005 a ...
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022
Citizens' attitude towards subnational borders: evidence from the merger of French regions
Using the 2016 merger of French regions as a natural experiment, this paper adopts a difference-in-differences identification strategy to recover its causal impact on individual subjective well-being. ...
Journal of Economic Geography, 2022
The petit effect of campaign spending on votes: using political financing reforms to measure spending impacts in multiparty elections
This paper explores the relation between campaign spending and votes, in France, relying on political financing reforms as a quasi-natural experiment to assess if and how spending affects votes, for b ...
Public Choice, 2022
Parcours professionnels, facteurs démographiques et financiers: quels effets sur la réversion?
Certains facteurs démographiques, économiques et financiers sont susceptibles d’avoir de fortes répercussions sur les futures pensions de réversion. Cet article propose d’évaluer, à l’aide ...
Retraite et société, 2020
A decomposition of labor earnings growth: Recovering Gaussianity?
Recent works have concluded that labor earnings dynamics exhibit non-Gaussian and nonlinear features. We argue in this paper that this finding is mainly due to volatility in working time. Using a non- ...
Labour Economics, 2020
The persistence of unhappiness: trapped into despair?
This article investigates whether self-assessed states of unhappiness are persistent. To disentangle state dependence from unobserved heterogeneity in life satisfaction, it estimates a dynamic ordered ...
Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 74, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 746–772,, 2021
Worker-firm matching and the parenthood pay gap: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
The parenthood pay gap is not fully explained by human capital depreciation and unobserved heterogeneity. Endogenous worker-firm matching could also account for such wage differences. This hypothesis ...
Springer; Volume 29, pages 991–1023, 2016
Do consumers correctly expect price reductions? Testing dynamic behavior
The assumption that consumers are fully rational and hold correct price expectations is demanding in dynamic settings. We claim that it is testable provided that market-level data on prices and purcha ...
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 44, pages 25-40, Elsevier, 2016
When does the stepping-stone work? Fixed-term contracts versus temporary agency work in changing economic conditions
This paper emphasizes differences among short-term contracts in terms of career prospects. Using French data over the 2002–2010 period, we rely on a dynamic model with fixed effects to disentangle s ...
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 30, No. 5 (August 2015), pp. 787-805 (19 pages), 2015
Constant utility index and inter-month substitution
This note aims at measuring the cost-of-living thanks to a constant utility index derived from monthly nested CES preferences that account for substitution across months. We estimate empirically that ...
Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(3), pages 1772-1781., 2015