We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...

[fre] Les effets de l'existence du parc HLM sur le profil de consommation des ménages.. Les HLM représentent une part de plus en plusi importante de l'ensemble du parc locatif. Ils se distinguent par des logements plus grands et plus récents, à dominante urbaine plus accentuée, et...

[fre] Comment les aides au logement affectent-elles les loyers? . . Près d'un locataire sur deux perçoit en France une aide au logement. La théorie économique prédit que l'introduction d'une aide personnelle au locataire peut avoir pour effet d'augmenter la demande agrégée de logement, et...

We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France using a large longitudinal dataset over the 1975-1999 period. For people staying on the territory the whole time (ie. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in...

We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large longitudinal dataset. We find that the homeownership gap is large and has increased. Entries into the...

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their status: public (university or non-teaching),...

We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...