
Karen Macours
PSE Chaired Professor
Research Director INRAE
Campus Jourdan – 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
5th floor, office 06
Phone +33(0)1 80 52 16 86
karen.macours psemail.eu
- Agricultural Economics and development
- Evaluation of public policies in developing countries
- Human capital and development
Working papers
Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years (with M. Caridad Araujo)
Video of VDEV/BREAD/CEPR webinar
PRESS: Voxdev talk: Podcast
Small Farmers' Access to Improved Seeds and Deforestation in DR Congo (with Tanguy Bernard, Sylvie Lambert and Margaux Vinez), R&R Nature Communications
Agricultural Input Subsidies, Credit Constraints and Expectations of Future Transfers: Evidence from Haiti (with Jeremie Gignoux, Daniel Stein and Kelsey Wright), PSE working paper No 2021-07. conditional accept American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Texting Parents about Early Childhood Development: Behavioural Changes and Unintended Social Effects (with Oscar Barrera, Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9492.
Social Learning in Agriculture: Does Smallholder Heterogeneity Impede Technology Diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa? (with Luc Behaghel and Jeremie Gignoux), CEPR Discussion Paper 15220.
PRESS: Voxdev
Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using tracking information to correct bias (with Teresa Molina Millan), 2019, R&R EDCC.
Experimental Evidence of Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer During Early Teenage Years: Young Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes (with Tania Barham and John Maluccio), 2018. CEPR Discussion Paper 13165, R&R JEEA
Are Conditional Cash Transfers Fulfilling Their Promise? Schooling, Learning, and Earnings After 10 Years (with Tania Barham and John Maluccio), 2018. Updated version of CEPR Discussion Paper 11937