Talks

Policy and inequality response to uncertainty shocks: A multi-country analysis   This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty shocks on public debt and inequality across 25 developed and emerging economies over an average period of 30 years, using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. While uncertainty shocks are generally recessionary, their macroeconomic and distributional effects […]

Applicant choice in the design of social housing allocations : Evidence from France Although social housing is prevalent in many developed countries, there is no consensus over how to design allocation rules. Measuring the impact of a change in rules requires predicting how applicants will respond. In a context where rents are fixed, application data […]

New fertility patterns: The role of human versus physical capital We use an overlapping generations model with physical and human capital, and two reproductive periods to explore how fertility decisions may differ in response to economic incentives in early and late adulthood. In particular, we analyze the interplay between fertility choices—related to career opportunities—and wages, […]