The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...

This article analyses some effects of the French upfront subsidy to homeownership called Prêt à Taux Zéro (PTZ) introduced in 1996. The PTZ can be viewed as a downpayment subsidy to low and middle-income first-time buyers. The effects of the subsidy are modelled by simulating the introduction...

[eng] Female Labour Supply and Child Care . . We estimate a model of the decision by mothers of young children to use paid child care services and to work (participation and working hours : half-time , 80 %, full-time ), using French microeconomic data . Our research suggests that the cost of...