Eva Moreno Galbis

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The impact of parents’ health shocks on children’s health behaviors

Sylvie Blasco, Eva Moreno - Galbis, Jeremy Tanguy, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 42, 01/2025

Abstract This paper examines how two smoking-related parental health shocks affect offspring smoking behavior depending on the timing of the health shock. A descriptive analysis restricted to individuals whose parents were diagnosed with lung cancer or another smoking-related cancer suggests different smoking behaviors depending on the age of the individual at diagnosis. We build a retrospective panel and use individual fixed effects to control for the endogeneity of the timing of the diagnosis and to neutralize the intergenerational transmission effect in smoking behaviors. Doing so, we aim at evaluating the extent to which a parental diagnosis acts as an informational shock and affects offspring behavior by bringing salient information about the health hazards of smoking. We find that receiving a parental diagnosis reduces the long-term probability of being a smoker. This effect is driven by individuals receiving the parental diagnosis at the age when the decision to smoke is about to be made. The informational shock effect associated with lung cancer appears systematically stronger than the informational shock effect associated with other smoking-related cancers.

Keywords Smoking, Health shocks, Intergenerational transmission

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The birthplace bias of teleworking: Consequences for working conditions

Eva Moreno - Galbis, Felipe Trillos Carranza, LABOUR, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 280-318, 06/2023

Abstract The massive shift towards teleworking during the COVID pandemic relatively deteriorated working conditions of people occupying positions that could not be teleworked because they were more exposed to the risk of infection. Exploiting French data, we analyse the differential changes in sorting across occupations of immigrants and natives during years preceding the pandemic. Immigrants sorted relatively more into occupations intensive in non-routine manual tasks. These occupations cannot be teleworked. We find an increase in immigrants' sorting into occupations intensive in non-routine interactive and analytical tasks. However, in contrast with natives, immigrants were moving away from occupations intensively using new technologies.

Keywords Jobs, Gender, Immigrants, Health-status, Task specialization

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Getting used to terrorist threats? Evidence from French terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016

Sylvie Blasco, Eva Moreno - Galbis, Jeremy Tanguy, Health Economics, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 508-540, 03/2022

Abstract This paper evaluates the effect on mental health of consecutive terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and 2016. We compile information about the three main terrorist attacks that struck France over this period and assess whether the potential effect on mental health (i.e., depression) of a terrorist attack is smoothed once people consider terrorist attacks as “the new normality.” We exploit data from the French Constances epidemiological survey and combine an event study strategy with a difference-in-difference approach to compare before-after changes in mental health the year of the attack with the same changes the year before. We show that the negative effect of a terrorist attack on mental health decreases over time from one attack to another, and disappears completely for the last attack. Socio-demographic composition of the sample, geographical or socio-demographic proximity to the victims or media exposure do not arise as factors responsible for this changing effect of terrorist attacks on mental health.

Keywords Terrorism, Mental health, Event study, Difference-in-difference

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Social Ties and the Influence of Public Policies on Individual Opinions: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage Laws

Sylvie Blasco, Eva Moreno Galbis, Jeremy Tanguy, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 196-271, 03/2022

Abstract This paper evaluates if same-sex marriage (SSM) laws, approved in several European Union countries over the past decades, have contributed to favor gay-friendly opinions among people depending on their social interactions. We propose a dyadic model in which individuals learn about the social norm conveyed by a law through strong and weak ties. We show that the relative importance of these social ties in shaping individuals’ opinions depends on the alignment between the law and the local social norm. Using the 2002–2016 European Social Surveys, we test the theoretical predictions with a pseudo-panel dynamic difference-in-difference setting relying on the progressive adoption of SSM in European countries. We show that strong ties induce a lower increase in gay-friendly opinions following the adoption of SSM when the law is aligned with the local social norm. When the law clashes with this norm, strong ties induce a larger increase.

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Differences in work conditions between natives and immigrants: preferences vs. outside employment opportunities

Eva Moreno Galbis, European Economic Review, Vol. 130, pp. 103586, 11/2020

Abstract Immigrants are disproportionately employed in agriculture and construction, sectors with relatively high injury rates. What pushes immigrants to accept riskier and more strenuous work conditions? We propose a circular model and show that differences in average work conditions borne by natives and immigrants are driven by both preferences and unearned income. Using French data we find that, in line with the model’s predictions, (i) rigid wages are associated with a larger immigrant-native gap in work conditions; (ii) high unearned income individuals benefit on average from better work conditions; (iii) for immigrants and natives with high unearned income, differences in demographic characteristics explain part of the immigrant-native gap in work conditions. In contrast, the gap largely persists among low unearned income people even once we have imposed identical demographic composition among them. This suggests that there must be other factors that influence preferences over work conditions and that are missing in our empirical analysis.

Keywords Composition effects, Preferences, Outside employment opportunities, Work conditions, Immigrants

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How helpful are social networks in finding a job along the economic cycle? Evidence from immigrants in France

Eva Moreno Galbis, François-Charles Wolff, Arnaud Herault, Economic Modelling, Vol. 91, pp. 12-32, 09/2020

Abstract Around 50% of individuals obtain or hear about jobs through social networks. This hiring trend may become problematic when the labor market is tight and people need less social contacts to find a job. Using a one-period static model where network members may receive job offers directly from the firm or indirectly through employed members in the network we show that the share of new hires finding a job through social connections (ie network matching rate) decreases with the job finding rate. Using French data for the period 2003-2012, we test this prediction with immigrants, a population subgroup for whom networks play a major role in occupational decisions. We propose two network matching rate indicators, one based on direct recommendations and another one internalizing the positive externality on the employment probability induced by peers. We find a decreasing relationship between the network matching rate and the job finding rate. Social connections are less helpful for finding jobs during economic expansions.

Keywords Immigrant, Network matching rate, Economic cycle

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Immigrants’ Wage Performance in a Routine Biased Technological Change Era: France 1994-2012

Eva Moreno-Galbis, Jeremy Tanguy, Ahmed Tritah, Catherine Laffineur, Industrial Relations, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 623-673, 10/2019

Abstract Over the period 1994–2012, immigrants’ wage growth in France outperformed that of natives. We investigate to what extent changes in task-specific returns to skills contributed to this wage dynamics differential through two channels: changes in the valuation of skills (price effect) and occupational sorting (quantity effect). We find that the wage growth premium of immigrants is mainly explained by the progressive reallocation of immigrants toward tasks whose returns increase over time. Immigrants seem to have taken advantage of labor demand restructuring driven by globalization and technological changes.

Keywords Skills, Immigrants, Tasks, Wage dynamics

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Communication dans un congrès

Occupational choices and network effects: Evidence from France

Arnaud Herault, Eva Moreno Galbis, François-Charles Wolff, 01/2017

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Communication dans un congrès

Occupational choices and network effects: Evidence from France

Arnaud Herault, Eva Moreno Galbis, François-Charles Wolff, 01/2017

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Communication dans un congrès

Occupational choices and network effects: Evidence from France

Arnaud Herault, Eva Moreno Galbis, François-Charles Wolff, 01/2017

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Productivity Puzzles Across Europe

Philippe Askenazy, Lutz Bellmann, Alex Bryson, Eva Moreno Galbis, OUP, pp. 352 p., 12/2016

Abstract Analyses labour productivity in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis - Examines 'productivity puzzles'- the unexpected decline in labour productivity growth at the onset of recession - Includes chapters on France, Germany, the UK, and Spain - Cross-country comparison at firm micro-level - Contributions at macro- and micro-level with efforts to compare and contrast literatures

Keywords Spain, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Labour Productivity, Productivity puzzles

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