Chapters from my PhD Dissertation

Rage against the Matching (with Julien Combe)

We use market design to define assignment mechanisms for the daycare market. We conduct a field experiment using them in France and analyse who gets what and why.

Welfare to What ?

I evaluate a randomised experiment of an intensive welfare-to-work programme targetting single parents on long-term welfare in France. I find no effect on labour market participation and poverty after the end of the programme.

Tax burden on the poor (with Alexandra galitzine)

We challenge the idea that the French tax-benefit system "make work pay" for single parents and analyse reactions following a randomised intensive welfare-to-work programme.

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When should we adjust standard errors ?

Applied econometricians have to deal with two important issues when estimating models: identification and inference. The latter is often left with little guidance but broad general advices on how to deal with group structures. Abadie et al. (2017) discuss when to adjust standard errors for clusters in cross sections. This presentation discuss their results. When to cluster standard errors ?