Research Contributions

Area of Specialization

Economics of Education – Development Economics – Applied Economics.

Peer-reviewed articles

1. Beyond Poverty Reduction: Evidence from a Multifaceted Program on Poverty, Nutrition and Child Development, with Andrew Dillon, forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics
2. The Role of Mindset in Education : A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools, (2025) with Elise Huillery, Axelle Charpentier, Yann Algan, Coralie Chevallier. forthcoming at The Economic Journal [2024 WP]
3. When Effective Teacher Training Falls Short in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment in Primary Schools (2024), with Suzanne Bellue, Marc Gurgand, Valerie Munier and André Tricot, Economics of Education Review [Bellue_etal_IZA2023], Volume 103, December 2024, 102599
4. Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand Evidence from a Large-Scale Construction Program, (2023), with Jan Berkes, Deon Filmer and Tsuyoshi Fukao. Journal of Public Economics, Volume 230, February 2024
5. The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia. (2019) with Denise Hörner, Markus Frölich, Meike Wollni, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2022. [NBER]
6. Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics (2019), with
   Yue Huang, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Annual Review of Economics 2019 11:1, 523-561 [NBER WP 25356]
7. Joint effects of parental stimulation and nutrition status on child development: Evidence from rural Cambodia (2019), with Jan Berkes, Abbie Raikes, Deon Filmer, Developmental Science 2019;
8. Preschool and Parental Response in a Second-Best World: Evidence from a large-scale preschool construction experiment in Cambodia (2018),  with D. Filmer, K. Macours, S. Naudeau, Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2018 vol. 53 no. 2 474-512. 
9. Adjusting content to individual student needs: Further evidence from an in-service teacher training program (2016), Economics of Education Review, Volume 50, p.90-112
10. L’assignation aléatoire comme méthode d’évaluation des politiques publiques (2014), Economie et Prévision, with Juliette Seban, vol.1, no. 204-205

Policy Papers

1. La taille des classes influence-t-elle la réussite scolaire ?,  with Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand [IPP Report]
2. Impact Evaluation of Three Types of Early Childhood Development Interventions in Cambodia, with D.Filmer, K. Macours, S. Naudeau, World Bank report, 2013 [Report]
3. Evaluation d’impact du dispositif Coup de Pouce Clé, with Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Rapport final FEJ, May 2013. [FEJ Report]
4. Randomized Controlled Experiments in Education, with Marc Gurgand, EENEE Analytical, Report No. 11, February 2012. [Report]

Media

• Réduire la tailles des classes améliore bien les performances scolaires [Article]
• En France, les élèves les plus en difficulté ont du mal à apprendre à lire, The Huffigton Post, November 2015.  [Article]

Stata Code

Available on the SSC of stata:

• icw_index generates inverted matrix weighting indexes a la Anderson (2008).
• rctable generates regression tables for randomized controlled trials
• dltable generated regression  tables for randomized controlled trials using double LASSO estimation
• clean_name clean string variable to remove all specific characteres.