Toulouse School of Economics

Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans

The gut microbiome is crucial for health and is affected strongly by lifestyle1. Many microorganisms commonly found in non-industrialized populations are disappearing or have become extinct in industrialized populations2–6. Studying which microorganisms have been long-term reside...

TAIL EXPECTILE ESTIMATION IN THE SEMIPARAMETRIC GENERALIZED PARETO MODEL

Expectiles have received increasing attention as a market risk measure that is both coherent and elicitable. They are defined as a least squares analog to quantiles. Their estimation from heavy-tailed loss data in an extreme value framework is an important and difficult problem,...

Urbanization and electoral success: lawyers and workers in interwar France

This study argues that urbanization altered the relationship between candidates’ occupation and their electoral success. To identify the causal effect of local variation in urbanization, we exploit exogenous changes in the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932,...

Household Refrigerators as the “Last Mile” of the Cold Chain: Impacts on Dietary Quality in Rural China

ABSTRACT Household refrigerators extend the last mile of the cold chain into the home, but their implications for dietary quality in developing food systems remain unclear. Using household panel data from China's Fixed Observation Rural Survey for 2003–2018, we estimate the effec...