Pierre Beaucoral et Miray Azmy (CERDI, UCA)

12h15 : Scaling down climate adaptation finance justice: How cosmopolitan allocation ideals withstand sovereign realities at the subnational level?

Pierre Beaucoral
CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne

Co-auteur : Paul Vernus.

Résumé

How are values and norms embedded in global governance translated at a subnational level? In this study, we examine the specific case of the allocation of international public finance for climate adaptation. Drawing on the climate ethics literature, we show the inherent tension between principles of global justice and the principle of national state sovereignty. We develop an analytical framework identifying four ideal-type ethical approaches to climate justice and derive their corresponding theoretical distributions. To estimate these distributions, we combine information on foreign aid, climate vulnerability and sociopolitical factors for 47,051 subnational administrative level-two units in 170 countries between 2000 and 2022. Based on this novel dataset, we compare the theoretical distributions to the actual aid allocation patterns.

theses.fr/s370798

12h45 : Financial concerns and household survey recall accuracy

Miray Azmy
CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne

Résumé

Surveys are a key source of data for empirical research and public policy, providing key statistics on income, consumption, employment, and welfare. However, survey data are vulnerable to several sources of measurement error. One important form of measurement error arises from recall bias, whereby respondents inaccurately report past events or outcomes. While previous studies document the presence of recall bias in self-reported earnings, consumption, and agricultural production, less is known about whether respondents’ economic conditions influence the accuracy of their retrospective survey responses. This project explores whether financial concerns affect recall accuracy in household surveys. The analysis builds on the empirical setting developed by Duquennois and Jagnani (2026), who exploit a policy shock in Indonesia on November17, 2014, when the government reduced fuel subsidies and simultaneously introduced a compensatory cash transfer program for eligible households. Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), their study implements a regression discontinuity design (RDD) based on interview dates around the policy announcement. My analysis aims to investigate whether measurement errors in surveys are non-random and systematically correlated with households’ financial concerns.

theses.fr/s427272