BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AMSE//Event Calendar//FR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event-13244@amse-aixmarseille.fr DTSTAMP:20260918T080319Z CREATED:20260918T080319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T080319Z STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:PhD seminar - Mathis Preti*\, Kla Kouadio** DTSTART:20260924T090000Z DTEND:20260924T103000Z DESCRIPTION:*Between 1954 and 1998\, the tobacco industry spent $355 millio n on academic research. I show that the industry's funding decisions delaye d research on smoking’s harms\, despite strict protections against indust ry interference. Using large language models to process internal tobacco-in dustry documents\, I build the first comprehensive dataset of academic rese archers who applied for tobacco-industry grants and link them to bibliometr ic records. I first show that tobacco-health research projects were systema tically less likely to be funded than otherwise similar projects. Using dif ference-in-differences\, I then compare the publications of researchers who received a grant with those of researchers whose applications were rejecte d or nearly approved. Only grants supporting tobacco-health research increa sed tobacco-health publications. Moreover\, during the period when the indu stry penalized these projects in funding decisions\, the publications they induced mostly established smoking’s harms. By reallocating funding away from tobacco-health research\, the industry therefore delayed the productio n of this knowledge. These findings provide the first empirical evidence th at an industry can use research funding to delay the production of inconven ient knowledge.**Between 1970 and 2000\, predominantly Black urban neighbor hoods in the United States experienced sharp socioeconomic decline\, even a s Black incomes rose in the country as a whole. Over the same period\, more than six million African Americans moved from urban areas to the suburbs\, a process of Black suburbanization disproportionately driven by higher-inc ome Black households. This selective out-migration plausibly reduced econom ic resources and exposure to higher-income peers in the neighborhoods left behind. This paper provides evidence on the long-run consequences of this d eterioration for the children who grew up in urban areas. To identify the e ffect of Black suburbanization on children's outcomes\, I use an instrument al variable based on the location of land unavailable for new construction near preexisting suburban Black communities\, which shaped where departing households predominantly moved. I find that Black suburbanization reduced u pward mobility\, employment\, and marriage rates among children raised in t hese urban neighborhoods. I further provide evidence consistent with these effects operating in part through rising violent crime\, declining house va lues\, and the departure of experienced teachers in the neighborhoods left behind. These findings support the idea that Black suburbanization\, while reflecting positive individual economic mobility\, worsened the economic pr ospects of children whose parents were unable to leave.\\n\\nContact: Garan ce Desrousseaux - garance.desrousseaux[at]univ-amu.frMartin Dhaussy - marti n.dhaussy[at]univ-amu.frLilie Timricht - lilie.timricht[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nP lus d'informations: https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/mathis-preti -kla-kouadio LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 15\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevard Maur ice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille URL;VALUE=URI:https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/mathis-preti-kla-kouadio CONTACT:Garance Desrousseaux - garance.desrousseaux[at]univ-amu.frMartin Dh aussy - martin.dhaussy[at]univ-amu.frLilie Timricht - lilie.timricht[at]uni v-amu.fr TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR