Jérémie Gignoux

PSE Professor

CV IN ENGLISH
RePEc page
  • Senior Researcher
  • INRAE
Research groups
  • Associate researcher at the Education Policy and Social Mobility Chair.
Research themes
  • Agricultural Economics and development
  • Education
  • Environmental Economics & Natural resources in developing countries
  • Evaluation of public policies in developing countries
  • Human capital and development
  • Labor and development
Contact

Address :48 Boulevard Jourdan,
75014 Paris, France

Campus: Campus Jourdan
Floor: 5
Office: 62
Declaration of interest

Publications HAL

  • Sécurité alimentaire et ressources naturelles : stratégies de diversification Book section

    Ce chapitre traite de deux enjeux majeurs auxquels sont confrontés les ménages ruraux en zone tropicale : préserver les ressources naturelles et assurer la sécurité alimentaire. Relever ces deux défis simultanément requiert de développer des systèmes de production efficaces, capables à la fois de garantir la sécurité alimentaire des agriculteurs et d’assurer une gestion durable des ressources naturelles. Pour ce faire, il convient de s’interroger sur les liens directs et indirects entre la sécurité alimentaire des ménages et la biodiversité à l’échelle de l’exploitation agricole et à celle du paysage.
    Author: Camille Jahel, Christèle Icard-Vernière, Claire Mouquet Rivier, Eric Olivier Verger, Gabriela Demarchi, Julie Subervie, R. Cardinael, Thibault Catry Editor: Ed. Quae

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  • Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru Pre-print, Working paper

    We study how the admission of a student to an elite secondary school changes the schooling outcomes of younger cohorts in the student’s school of origin. The context of the rapid establishment and expansion of a nationwide system of highly selective and free-of-charge secondary schools in Peru allows us to investigate information diffusion with low financial barriers. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design, our analysis shows that the admission of an older schoolmate increases the number of younger students who apply (by 16%) and are admitted (47%) to this elite school system. The effect is concentrated among students whose parents have low education levels. Moreover, admissions of older schoolmates to a selective school gives younger students the opportunity to learn about elite schools, but does not seem to encourage them to improve their learning achievement or provide an advantage in preparing the admission assessments. Our findings show that selective schools can have effects that go beyond their own students and indicate that schoolmates can be an effective channel for increasing the demand from high-achieving, low-income students for high-quality education.

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  • Input subsidies, credit constraints, and expectations of future transfers: Evidence from Haiti Journal article

    We examine the effects of a subsidy program in Haiti that provided smallholders subsidies for inputs (rice seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, and specific labor tasks) using a randomized control trial. The program led to lower input use and lower yields in the year subsidies were received, and the decline in input use and yields persisted through the following year. Using data from a complementary information intervention in which randomly selected farmers were provided clarification regarding their future receipt of vouchers, we find evidence suggesting that incorrect expectations of future transfers partially explain the disappointing outcomes. In addition, instead of increasing input use, the subsidies seem to have led farmers to pay off their loans and take fewer new ones. In complex post-emergency environments such as the one in which this program took place, input subsidies may need to be avoided, as they require considerable information to optimally design and careful coordination by many actors to achieve the expected gains.
    Journal: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

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  • Food security and natural resources: diversification strategies Book section

    This chapter deals with two major issues rural households face in tropical areas: preserving natural resources and guaranteeing food security. Tackling these two challenges simultaneously may require developing profitable production systems that can both guarantee food security for farmers, while also ensuring sustainable management of natural resources.
    Author: Christèle Icard-Vernière, Claire Mouquet Rivier, Eric Olivier Verger, Julie Subervie, R. Cardinael, Thibault Catry Editor: Ed. Quae

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Research fellow at the French Institute for Research for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

 

I am a researcher in Applied Economics. I study the welfare of households in developing countries and its dynamics over the life cycle and generations. I consider different factors of change and policy interventions: technology diffusion, inclusion of smallholders in agricultural value chains, education policies and investments in human capital, climate change and natural disasters. Some of my works involve field work.

 

 

 

Smallholders in plantation agriculture, social and environmental sustainability

  • “Plantation expansion and forests in Indonesia”, with Damien Arvor, Carl Bethuel, Cécile Bessou, Julia Helie, François Libois, Daniela Miteva and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
  • “Expansion of oil palm plantations, welfare and food security in Indonesia”, with Cécile Bessou, Julia Helie and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

  • “The impact of a forestmoratorium on smallholdersand industrialpalm oil plantations in Indonesia“, with Julia Hélie, Allen Klaiber, François Libois, Daniela Miteva, Subhrendu Pathanayak and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (presented at FAERE conference 2024)

  • “Access to market and expansion of smallholder plantations in Indonesia“, with Léa Crépin, Julia Helie, François Libois, Daniela Miteva and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

 

Adoption of agricultural technologies

 

Natural disasters, trade: agregate shocks and welfare of rural households

  • “Long-term impacts of earthquakes on human capital and welfare”, with Marta Menendez
  • “Effects of natural disasters on local economic inequality”, with Carmen Camacho-Perez and Juliana Pinilhos
  • “Trade liberalization in times of rising food prices: Evidence from Indonesia during the 2000s”, with Alix Bonargent, Marta Menendez and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

 

Education policies

Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia

with Damien Arvor, Cécile Bessou, Julie Betbeder, Samuel Corgne, Thomas Corpetti, François Libois, Daniela Miteva, Jean Olivier, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Alexis Thoumazeau

Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR Palmexpand project) for 2021-2024, exploratory grant by Mutalim CNRS-INRAE transdisplinary fund, project coordinator

 

Impact study of an environmental intensification project in Southern Ethiopia, in collaboration with NGO Inter Aide

with Victor Cordonnier, Kenneth Houngbedji and Liam Wren-Lewis 

Exploratory grant from AFD-IRD PAIRE program

 

Experimental study of development of the market for Nubian Vaults, in collaboration with NGO AVN

with Tanguy Bernard, Delphine Boutin, Omer Combaly, Eugénie Maiga and Quentin Stoeffler  

 

 

 

1st year APE Master course, Mathematics and Statistics for Economists

This course provides students with both an understanding and practice of the core techniques of Statistics and Mathematics for economists. The Statistics part covers the properties of random samples (both finite sample and asymptotic), point estimation and hypothesis testing. The Mathematical part covers static (including the resolution of the Lagrange and nonlinear programming problems), differential equations and dynamic optimization methods (control theory and dynamic programming).

 

Si vous êtes un étudiant de PSE : rendez-vous sur http://teaching.parisschoolofeconomics.eu pour accéder aux ressources pédagogiques en ligne.

 

2nd year APE & PPD Masters, Development Economics research seminar, with Liam Wren-Lewis

Please see the course website for details

This course is for students interested in writing a Masters’ dissertation in development economics. The first session will present the development faculty. The sessions are then devoted to discussions of recent papers on prominent topics and elaboration and discussion of students’ dissertation projects.

 

I have started documenting the field work I conduct for my research projects with photographs. The images are introduced and can be watched in a PSE Images collection on HAL open archive (link below).

 

I currently present several series of photographs, shot during field work in Indonesia in November and December 2019, about the destructions and recovery from the 2018 earthquake in Palu city (Central Sulawesi), the oil palm value chain and a CIRAD agronomic training in Jambi province, and rice farmers and a forest observatory station in Sulawesi province. 

 

Do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to learn more.

 

PSE Images collection

https://hal-pse.archives-ouvertes.fr/PSE_IMAGES