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Departments in France with the same socio-economic and historical conditions nevertheless present different fertility rates. Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Thomas Seegmuller explain these surprising results by introducing a new hypothesis called “love for children”.

The Nobel Prize in Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee is invited by AMSE for an AMSE Lecture Monday, April 19, 2021 from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm. The scientific conference will be held in English and online.

In this issue, learn more about the ongoing research on Covid-19, recent scientific publications, news from the school and the interview with Laurent Simula, former AMSE PhD.

Air pollution causes a myriad of harmful effects. But how do you calculate the benefits associated with cleaner air when they do not come with a price tag? One way to do it is to estimate the amount we would be willing to pay to avoid associated deaths. And this is exactly what the economist Olivier Chanel did.

With more than 5 different taxes on real estate in France, it's hard to keep track of exactly how much we pay over the course of our lives. To alleviate this problem, economists Guillaume Bérard and Alain Trannoy propose a radical tax reform to replace these various taxes with a single property tax.

What is the cost of an epidemic? How does it affect human behavior and induce structural changes? Watch this video conference (only in French) for a non-specialist audience by Raouf Boucekkine (Aix Marseille University, FEG) introducing Epidemiological Economics.