Projects and expertise contracts recently signed
The Paris School of Economics introduces the expertise contracts and grants recently signed, conducted directly by PSE and/or in partnership with J-PAL Europe. To see all the studies and evaluations, follow this link.
Skills and Agricultural Productivity in Nicaragua
- Principal Investigator : Karen Macours
This project, funded by the World Bank, aims to carry a methodological survey experiment to improve the measurement of cognitive, non-cognitive and technical skills to understand agricultural productivity.
Long-term impacts of a social protection program
- Principal Investigator : Karen Macours
The project aims to evaluate the long-term effects of the “Atención a Crisis”, a productive safety nets program that was implemented in Nicaragua in 2006.
Identity and health
- Principal Investigator: Fabrice Etilé
Funded by the AXA Research Fund, this research project aims to examine how social identity affects the impact of globalization on food habits in emerging countries, such as China and Indonesia, in connection with the nutritional transition and its influence on public health. The project attempt also to analyze how the dynamics of personal identity across time affect health-related choices.
Evaluation of an experimental program of language development*
- Principal Investigator: Marc Gurgand
JPAL Europe, in partnership with the Laboratoire Dynamique du Language de Lyon, is conducting an evaluation of the program “Parler Bambin” implemented by the ANSA- Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives and by an alliance of local authorities. The program aims to apply a teaching method in the childcare centers to foster the language development of disadvantaged children. The evaluation and the expansion of the project are funded by the Fonds d’expérimentation pour la Jeunesse of the French Ministry for Youth.
Bidding for Roads in India
- Principal Investigators: Oliver Vanden Eynde
This project funded by the IGC - International Growth Centre of the LSE and Oxford University, studies the functioning of the bidding process for private contractors in one of the largest rural development programs in the world: the PMGSY road-building program. It is particularly interested in understanding how the design of the bidding process facilitates or hampers political influence over the allocation of contracts.
Alcohol pricing policies and cancers
- Principal Investigator: Fabrice Etilé.
The project funded by the Institut National du Cancer and realized in partnership with researchers from TSE and INRA.
It will evaluate the impact of various alcohol price policies in terms of cancer morbidity and mortality.
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* PSE / JPAL Europe project