Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d’économie et de statistique

SPECIAL ISSUES

 

 

NUMBER 105 / 106 – JANUARY / JUNE 2012

 

INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD
TIME ALLOCATION

 

Individual and Household Time Allocation: Market Work, Household Work, and Parental Time

Elena Stancanelli, Olivier Donni, and Robert A. Pollakpage 5

THE TIMING OF MARKET WORK AND PRODUCTIVITY CONSTRAINTS

The Timing of Labor Demand

Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and José Varejãopage 15

Work Hours Constraints and Health

David Bell, Steffen Otterbach, and Alfonso Sousa-Pozapage 35

Do Morning-Type People Earn More than Evening-Type People?
How Chronotypes Influence Income

Jens Bonkepage 55

TECHNOLOGY OF HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION
AND MARRIAGE FORMATION

Allocating Time: Individuals’ Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect

Substitutes, and Specialization

Robert A. Pollakpage 75

On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models:
Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni and Eleonora Matteazzipage 99

Does “Sorting into Specialization” Explain the Differences in Time Use between Married
and Cohabiting Couples? An Empirical Application for Germany

Katherin Barg and Miriam Beblopage 127

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS OF TIME
AND CHILDREN DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES

Child Care Provision: Semi-parametric Evidence from a Randomized

Experiment in Mexico

Pierre Dubois and Marta Rubio-Codinapage 155

Shaping Health Behavior across Generations: Evidence from Time Use Data
in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its Supplements

Frank Stafford and Ngina Chitejipage 185

The Allocation of Time within Italian Couples: Exploring its Unequal Gender

Distribution and the Effect of Childcare Services

Tindara Addabbo, Antonella Caiumi, and Anna Maccagnanpage 209

 THE QUALITY OF DIARIES

How to Think about Time-Use Data:  What Inferences Can We Make
about Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewartpage 231

Too Many Zeros:  A Method for Estimating Long-Term Time-Use from Short Diaries

Jonathan Gershunypage 247

Assessing Time-Diary Quality for Older Couples:  An Analysis of the PSID Disability
and Use-of-Time Supplement
Vicki A. Freedman, Frank Stafford, Frederick Conrad, Norbert Schwarz
and Jennifer C. Cornman
page 271

 

 

 

NUMBER 103 / 104 – JULY / DECEMBER 2011

CONTENTS

Special Issue ON EnvironmentAL AND RESOURCE Economics

Special Issue on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Introduction
Michel M
oreaux and Katheline Schubertpage 7

Polluters and Abaters
Alain-Désiré N
imubona and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagnépage 9

Weak Enforcement of Environmental Policies:  A Tale of Limited Commitment
and Limited Fines
Yolande H
iriart, David Martimort and Jérôme Pouyetpage 25

Energy-Saving Technology Adoption under Uncertainty in the Residential Sector
Dorothée C
harlier, Alejandro Mosiño and Aude Pommeretpage 43

Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers
Mireille C
hiroleu-Assouline et Mouez Fodhapage 71

Adverse Selection, (Non-Tradable) Emission Permits and Optimal Price Differentiation
Mourad A
fif and Sandrine Spaeterpage 93

Optimal Use of a Polluting Non-Renewable Resource Generating both Manageable
and Catastrophic Damages
Jean-Pierre A
migues, Michel Moreaux and Katheline Schubertpage 107

Optimal Dynamic Management of a Renewable Energy Source under Uncertainty
Catherine B
obtcheffpage 143

 

Macroeconomics

Transparency and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
Romain B
aeriswyl and Camille Cornandpage 175

Terms of Trade Shocks and the Non-Monotonic Adjustment of the Current Account 
Olivier C
ardipage 195

Les déséquilibres externes des États-Unis conduisent-ils à des asymétries
au sein de l’Union économique et monétaire ?
Aurélien Eyquempage 223

Surplus Consumption Ratio and Expected Stock Returns 
Imen G
hatassipage 245

Défiscalisation des heures supplémentaires : une perspective d’équilibre général
Julien M
atheronpage 273

 

 

Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d'économie et de statistique

 

NUMBER 101 / 102 – january / june 2011
Contents

 

Special Issue oN Social Choice AND VOTING

Introduction to the Special Issue on New Developments in Social Choice and Welfare Theories
Marc F
leurbaey, Dominique Lepelley, Vincent Merlinpage 7

Inequality Decomposition Values
Frédéric C
hantreuil, Alain Trannoypage 13

Freedom-Based Measurement of Living Standard
Nicolas G
ravel, Benoît Tarrouxpage 37

Measurement of Voting Power: a Preliminary Analysis of an Historical French Electoral Episode Through Simulations
Dominique L
epelley, Laurent Vidupage 71

A Comparison Between the Methods of Apportionment Using Power Indices.
The Case of the
us Presidential Election
Fabrice B
arthelemy, Mathieu Martinpage 87

The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules with Mutually Coherent Voter Preferences:
A Borda Compromise
William G
ehrlein, Dominique Lepelley, Hatem Smaouipage 107

No-Show Paradoxes under Parliamentary Agendas
Boniface M
bih, Xingyu Zhaopage 127

The Political Supply in the 2007 French Presidential Elections:
An Analysis Based on Experimental Data
Antoinette B
aujard, Herrade Igersheim, Thomas Sennépage 149

Generalized Binary Constitutions and the Whole Set of Arrovian Social Welfare Functions
Nicolas Gabriel A
ndjiga, Issofa Mouyouwou, Joël Moulenpage 187

 

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Is Agglomeration Desirable?
Fabien C
andaupage 203

Optimal Health Care Contract under Physician Agency
Philippe C
honé, Ching-to Albert Mapage 229

Travailler moins pour travailler plus longtemps
Helmuth C
remer, Philippe De Donder, Darío Maldonado, Pierre Pestieaupage 257

Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits
Jean G
abszewicz, Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weberpage 271

Contracting and the Disclosure of Ideas in the Innovation Process
David M
artimort, Jean-Christophe Poudou, Wilfried Sand-Zantmanpage 287

The Composition of Compensation Policy: From Cash to Fringe Benefits
Patricia C
rifo, Marc-Arthur Diayepage 307

Dynamic Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply with Imperfect Monitoring
Guillaume C
heikbossian, Wilfried Sand-Zantmanpage 327

Can Social Preferences Be both Stationary and Paretian?
Stéphane Z
uberpage 347

 

Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d'économie et de statistique

 

NUMBER 99/100, JULY/DECEMBER 2010

 

CONTENTS

 

SPECIAL ISSUE:MEASURING DISCRIMINATIONS

 

Measuring Discriminations: an Introduction

Emmanuel Duguet, Yannick L’Horty, Dominique Meurs, Pascale Petitpage 5

 

Child-related Career Interruptions and the Gender Wage Gap in France

Dominique Meurs, Ariane Pailhe, Sophie Ponthieuxpage 15

 

Technological Change and Gender Wage Gaps in the U.S. Service Industry

Simona Lup Tick, Ronald L. Oaxacapage 47

 

Gender Wage Differentials in the French Nonprofit and For-Profit Sectors:
Evidence from Quantile Regression

Jean-Michel Etienne, Mathieu Narcypage 67

 

On the Measurement of Wage Mobility and its Decomposition

Audrey Dumas, Jacques Silber, Michal Weberpage 91

 

National Origin Differences in Wages and Hierarchical Positions

Romain Aeberhardt, Julien Pougetpage 117

 

Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa Mc Inerney, David Neumarkpage 141

 

An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market

Peter A. Riach, Judith Richpage 169

 

Are Young French Jobseekers of Ethnic Immigrant Origin Discriminated Against?
A Controlled Experiment in the Paris Area

Emmanuel Duguet, Noam Leandri, Yannick L’Horty, Pascale Petitpage 187

 

      Labour Economics

Reconciling Work and Family Life: The Effect of the French Paid Parental Leave

Julie Moschionpage 217

 

Réforme de la protection de l’emploi et performance du marché du travail dans un modèle d’appariement

Olivier L’Haridon, Franck Malherbetpage 247

 

The Impact of the Reason for Layoff on the Subsequent Unemployment Duration

Anna Okatenkopage 285

 

Training and Age-Biased Technical Change

Luc Behaghel, Nathalie Greenanpage 317

 

Should Part-Time Jobs be Subsidised?

Alexis Parmentierpage 343

 

       Macroeconomics

Désinflation et chômage dans la zone euro : une analyse à l’aide d’un modèle var structurel

Patrick Feve, Julien Matheron, Jean-Guillaume Sahucpage 365

 

Detecting Mean Reversion in Real Exchange Rates from a Multiple Regime star Model

Frédérique Bec, Mélika Ben Salem, Marine Carrascopage 395

 

Per Capita Output Convergence : The Dickey-Fuller Test Under the Simultaneous Presence of Stochastic and Deterministic Trends

Manuel GOMEZ-ZALDIVAR, Daniel VENTOSA-SANTAULARIApage 429

 

 

          Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d'économie et de statistique

 

          NUMBER 97/98, JANUARY/JUNE 2010

 

 

          SPECIAL ISSUE ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

 

           CONTENTS

 

     Introduction

Migration and Development: New Insights

Hubert Jayet, Hillel Rapoportpage 5

 

     Macro and Trade Perspectives

Macroeconomic Consequences of Global Endogenous Migration:
a General Equilibrium Analysis

Vladimir Borgy, Xavier Chojnicki, Gilles Le Garrec and Cyrille Schwellnuspage 13

 

Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence

Gabriel J. Felbermayr, Benjamin Jung and Farid Toubalpage 41

 

Migrant Associations, Trade and fdi

Leila Baghdadi and Angela Chepteapage 71

 

fdi, the Brain Drain and Trade: Channels and Evidence

Artjoms Ivlevs and Jaime De Melopage 103

 

     Brain Drain, Human Capital and Development

Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less

Yoko Niimi, Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiffpage 123

 

On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoportpage 143

 

How Does High-Skilled Emigration Affect Small Countries:
Microeconomic Evidence from Tonga

John Gibson and David McKenziepage 167

 

Migration and Human Capital in an Endogenous Fertility Model

Luca Marchiori, Patrice Pieretti and Benteng Zoupage 187

 

     Migrants’ Self-selection

Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the us?

Vincenzo Caponipage 207

 

A Revision of the Self-selection of Migrants Using Returning Migrants’ Earnings

Aitor Lacuestapage 235

 

Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants

Simone Bertolipage 261

 

     Migrants’ Return, Savings and Location Decisions

Savings, Asset Holdings and Temporary Migration

Christian Dustmann, Josep Mestrespage 289

 

Are There Returns to Migration Experience? An Empirical Analysis
using Data on Return Migrants and Non-Migrants in West Africa

Philippe De Vreyer, Flore Gubert and Anne-Sophie Robilliardpage 307

 

The Location of Immigrants in Italy : Disentangling Networks and Local Effects

Hubert Jayet, Nadiya Ukrayinchuk, Giuseppe De Arcangelispage 329

 

 

 

       Annals of Economics and Statistics

Annales d'économie et de statistique

 

       NUMBER 95/96, JULY/DECEMBER 2009

 

          CONTENTS

 

       Special issue   Labor Market Outcomes: A Transatlantic Perspective

 

                Overview of the Articles

            Arnaud CHÉRON and François LANGOT – page 5                     

           

           A.   Labor Market Outcomes and the Role of Institutions in the Long Run

 

           The Impact of Unemployment Benefits

 

       Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Transatlantic Comparison

            Stéphane PALLAGE, Lyle SCRUGGS and Christian ZIMMERMANN – page 15

       Employment and Fear of Unemployment: A Transatlantic Comparison

            Alexandre BACLET, Daniel COHEN and Cyril NOUVEAU – page 25

       An Optimal Financing Scheme for Unemployment Benefit: A Transatlantic Comparison

            Julien ALBERTINI and Xavier FAIRISE – page 43

           

           Taxes versus Labor Market Institutions and the Long-Run Shift in the Employment Rate

 

       Hours Worked: Explaining Cross-Country Differences through the Effects of Tax/Benefit Systems

       on the Employment Rate

            Coralia QUINTERO-ROJAS – page 79

           

           Beyond the Representative Agent: A Life-Cycle perspective

 

       Employment, Hours per Worker and Taxes: A Life-Cycle Analysis

            Richard ROGERSON and Johanna WALLENIUS – page 105

       The Role of Institutions in Transatlantic Employment Differences: A Life-Cycle View

            Arnaud CHÉRON, Jean-Olivier HAIRAULT and François LANGOT – page 121

           

           Technological Progress, International Trade, Financial Development and the Housing Market

 

       Comparing the Effect of Labor Market Institutions on Employment Dynamics

            during the Technological Diffusion Process

            Eva MORENO-GALBIS – page 139

       Openness, Financial Markets and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns

            Giuseppe BERTOLA and Anna LO PRETE – page 167

       The Social Housing and Rental Housing Markets in an Equilibrium Rent Search Model

            Sébastien MENARD – page 183

       Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power

            Peter RUPPERT, Elena STANCANELLI and Etienne WASMER – page 201

           

           B.   Labor Market Institutions and the Business Cycle Dynamics of the Labor Market

 

       Sequential Bargaining in a Neo-Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment and Staggered Wage Negotiations

            Gregory DE WALQUE, Olivier PIERRARD, Henri SNEESSENS and Raf WOUTERS – page 221

       Understanding the Dynamics of the Labor Share: the Role of non-Competitive Factor Prices

            Sekyu CHOI and José-Víctor RIOS-RULL – page 251

       Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles

            Raquel FONSECA, Lise PATUREAU and Thepthida SOPRASEUTH – page 279

 

 

 

JULY-DECEMBER 2008

Issue 91-92

 

The Special Issue of  Annales d’Economie et de Statistique :

Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications

 

Edited by Bruno Crépon and Denis Fougère

 

 

Introduction

Denis FOUGÈRE – Bruno CRÉPON – Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications

 

Conférence des Annales 2005:

(Conférence de l’ADRES ; Paris, 14th of December 2005)

 

James J. HECKMAN - The Principles Underlying Evaluation Estimators with an Application to Matching

 

1st Discussion : Jean-Pierre FLORENS

2nd Discussion : Michael LECHNER

 

Part I - Methods

 

Charles F. MANSKI - Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice

 

Sophie LANGENSKIÖLD – Donald B. RUBIN - Outcome-free Design of Observational Studies: Peer Influence on Smoking

 

Thomas D. COOK – Vivian C. WONG - Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design: Implications for its Theory and its Use in Research Practice

 

James J. HECKMAN – Sergio URZUA – Edward VYTLACIL - Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case

 

Alberto ABADIE – Guido W. IMBENS - Estimation of the Conditional Variance in Paired Experiments

 

Jose  C. GALDO - Jeffrey SMITH - Dan BLACK - Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of  Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data

 

Michael LECHNER – A Note on the Common Support Problem in Applied Evaluation Studies

 

Part II – Applications

 

Robert MOFFITT - Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Populations

 

Petra E. TODD – Kenneth I. WOLPIN - Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs

 

Bernard FORTIN – Nicolas JACQUEMET – Bruce SHEARER - Policy Analysis in Health-Services Market: Accounting for Quality and Quantity

 

Bernd FITZENBERGER – Aderonke OSIKOMINU – Robert VÖLTER - Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

 

Thierry KAMIONKA – Guy LACROIX - Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy

 

Annette BERGEMANN – Gerard J. VAN DEN BERG – Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe – A Survey

 

Stacey H. CHEN – Estimating Effective Subsidy Rates of Student Aid Programs

 

Christian BELZIL - Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation