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SUMMARY:phd seminar - Santiago Lopez*\, Matteo Sestito**
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DESCRIPTION:*Social insurance programs and environmental policies imply int
 ergenerational transfers. The former affect the disposable income of the ol
 der population at the expense of the consumption of younger generations\, w
 hile the latter affect a long series of future generations by constraining 
 the actions of current cohorts. In this project\, I want to study the dynam
 ics of such institutions in a political economy framework when agents can h
 ave moral concerns (à la Kant). We discuss two main models. A two-period b
 enchmark model with heterogeneous agents\, to understand the intertemporal 
 choices of individuals with different environmental preferences\, and an OL
 G model to understand the long-run dynamics of retirement\, savings\, and c
 limate. **Subject to popular flee\, internal rebellions and diseases\, sta
 tes have historically developed only under very particular agro-ecological 
 circumstances. This paper advances and empirically validates a new perspect
 ive on state formation\, helping to understand their paucity and uneven dev
 elopment across the globe throughout the pre-industrial era. I posit that t
 he dissimilarity of the agricultural calendar was one of the fundamental co
 nstraints for the emergence and persistence of centralised governments. Usi
 ng data from the Ethnographic Atlas\, I provide evidence that the heterogen
 eity of agricultural growing seasons was a crucial barrier to state central
 isation. This holds true when controlling for a wide range of alternative d
 eterminants of state-building. The use of potential\, rather than observed\
 , agro-ecological data\, as well as various robustness tests\, give credit 
 to an interpretation of the results beyond the mere correlation.\\n\\nConta
 ct: Camille Hainnaux : camille.hainnaux[at]univ-amu.frDaniela Horta Saenz :
  daniela.horta-saenz[at]univ-amu.frJade Ponsard : jade.ponsard[at]univ-amu.
 frNathan Vieira : nathan.vieira[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: http
 s://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/santiago-lopez-matteo-sestito
LOCATION:MEGA - Salle Carine Nourry\, 424\, Chemin du Viaduc\, 13080 Aix-en
 -Provence
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/santiago-lopez-matteo-sestito
CONTACT:Camille Hainnaux : camille.hainnaux[at]univ-amu.frDaniela Horta Sae
 nz : daniela.horta-saenz[at]univ-amu.frJade Ponsard : jade.ponsard[at]univ-
 amu.frNathan Vieira : nathan.vieira[at]univ-amu.fr
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