Prosocial Disclosure and Contracts This paper studies prosocial disclosure (e.g., ESG reporting) and prosocial contracts (e.g., sustainability-linked loans) in a multitasking principal–agent framework with limited liability and private agent types. The agent exerts costly effort on two tasks: one yielding an unverifiable outcome and another generating an outcome that can be verifiably disclosed at a […]

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, […]

Skill Supply, Firm Size, and Economic Development This paper harmonizes individual-level data on labor supply for 54 countries to document how firm size and the skill intensity of employment by firm size vary across countries. First, it finds that the share of employment in large firms in high-income countries is more than three times larger […]

Structural Density and Homeownership One of the most salient stylized facts about homeownership is that multifamily units—typically located in more central parts of cities—are much less likely to be owner-occupied than single-family units. This fact is consistent with landlord production efficiency advantages associated with structural density, arising from economies of scale and coordination frictions. To […]

How raising the full retirement age affects women's early retirement choices: insights from the interaction of two policies (with Elena Bassoli, ETH Zurich) This paper analyzes how a reform increasing statutory retirement age from 60 to 64 affected women’s incentives for early retirement. In Italy, women can anticipate retirement at 57 (with 35 contribution years), […]

Dynamique(s) de la santé au travail en contexte néo-taylorien. Le cas des drives de la grande distribution alimentaire Room A404

Who Gets Ahead? Comparative Evidence on Intragenerational Mobility from Administrative Microdata We use administrative records from Austria, Belgium, Estonia and Spain to study income dynamics of working-age individuals over five years. Aggregate mobility indices often mask substantial variation in short-term income trajectories for individuals at different points of the distribution. By combining relative and absolute […]

The Effects of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-Income Priorities in Paris High Schools » Gabrielle Fack (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL), Julien Grenet (Paris School of Economics), YingHua He (Rice University) Since 2008, school choice in Paris has an income-based affirmative action component giving low-income students preferential treatment in high school admissions. […]

Measuring Differences of Opinion: Axiomatic Foundation, Utility, and Truthtelling Understanding how individuals and groups differ in their opinions and preferences is central to analyzing disagreement, measuring polarization, designing institutions, and predicting collective outcomes. Yet comparing preferences requires more than observing how each person ranks alternatives--it requires a method for comparing preference orderings themselves. This paper […]

Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services, joint with Kinshuk Jerath and Greg Taylor This paper analyzes the practice of seller-side tying in digital platforms, where access to a core intermediation service is conditioned on the seller using ancillary services such as fulfillment or payment processing. We develop a model in which a monopoly platform intermediates transactions […]

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