Calendrier du 27 mars 2024
Development Economics Seminar
Du 27/03/2024 de 16:30 à 18:00
R2.01
LANG Meghan (World Bank)
Economic Inclusion through Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Building Skills for Women
écrit avec Megan Lang (Development Research Group, The World Bank) and Julia Seither (Universidad del Rosario)
Rural, low-income households often face high income volatility, and women are disproportionately affected by negative shocks to production. Can entrepreneurship improve the economic status of rural, low-income women? We randomize access to an entrepreneurship training program in rural Uganda. The program significantly improves women's earnings. Treated women are 19% more likely to run profitable businesses 18 months post-program and profits are 15% higher. The program also bolsters women's ability to cope with large, negative shocks: high-frequency data shows that treated women fare significantly better during the first COVID-19 lockdown than women in the control group. Exploiting social network data, we detect significant, positive spillovers to the control group and adjust estimates accordingly. Our findings highlight a new role for entrepreneurship training programs as a tool for equitable rural development.
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 27/03/2024 de 16:00 à 17:30
R2.20
GARCIA Sébastian (PSE)
The pearl of the Empire? Private capital and the "mise en valeur" of rubber in colonial French Indochina.
écrit avec Simon Bittmann and Sebastián García Cornejo
This project studies colonial private capital in the rubber sector in French Indochina during the interwar. We extend the discussion about the "profitability of Empires" in two directions: to French concessionary firms, and by focusing on the distribution of profits, and incipient success, rather than levels. Using complete plantation-level data on firms' life-cycles, returns, board members and labor composition, we test the hypothesis of an "imperialist moment" in French economic/business history, exploring two main drivers of success - the type of capital invested and the reliance on forced labor - interacting with state support during the Great Depression
Economic History Seminar
Du 27/03/2024 de 12:00 à 13:30
R1.09
GAUTHIER Stéphane (PSE)
Late height growth and adult maturity from historical quasi-exhaustive panel data
Combining height data from two 19th-century French conscription
sources yields a quasi-exhaustive individual-level longitudinal dataset
for men from their 21st year, allowing for an assessment of late height
growth and age of maturity. Among 2,923 men born in 1887 in
Corr`eze, annual growth ranges from 0.29 cm to 0.39 cm. Most men
mature around ages 21-22, but the shortest in the first quintile grow
1.6 cm, reaching 162.7 cm at ages 26-27.