Charlotte Saucet, Maître de conférences au Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Le séminaire de recherche du jeudi 19 novembre 2026 est animé par Charlotte Saucet, Maître de conférences en Economie au Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (CES) et Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
 

Ses thèmes de recherche portent sur la manière dont les individus se forgent et actualisent leurs croyances, avec un intérêt particulier pour la communication stratégique, le raisonnement motivé et les biais de mémoire.

Titre de sa présentation : Intertemporal universalism

Résumé : Many economic and policy decisions require weighting the welfare of individuals living at different points in time. To examine how people approach such intertemporal trade-offs, we design an experiment in which subjects with no personal monetary stake allocate money between Strangers who differ in their participation and payment dates. This design allows us to examine intertemporal universalism, the extent to which individuals receive equal consideration regardless of their temporal location. Our results show that subjects are more generous toward Strangers who participate and/or are paid today than toward those whose participation and/or payment is delayed by 6, 12, or 24 months. In contrast, when both Strangers participate and/or are paid at different dates that all fall in the future, allocation differences are small or nonexistent. Complementary data suggest that a mechanism behind these results is that temporal distance maps onto social distance: subjects feel closer to Strangers who are anchored in the present and justify favoring them by referring to concrete considerations, such as their immediate needs or greater engagement in the experiment.

 
Le séminaire a lieu à 11h15, au GAEL, salle 227