Karen Macours
Professeure titulaire d'une chaire à PSE
Directrice de recherche INRAE
Campus Jourdan – 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
5e étage, bureau 06
Tél. 01 80 52 16 86
karen.macours chez psemail.eu
- Agriculture et développement
- Evaluation des politiques publiques dans les pays en développement
- Capital humain et développement
Projets
I have conducted field research in Sub Sahara Africa, Latin America and Asia, working with a variety of stakeholders (national and regional governments, NGOs, bilateral and multilaterals agencies).
Some Selected Work-in-progress
Agriculture
Two-sided Subsidies to Support Biofortified Crop Adoption in Guatemala (with Paola Mallia and Jessica Rudder). More information in AEA RCT registry.
Skills, heterogeneous quality of agricultural commercial inputs and learning through experimentation - Kenya (with Rachid Laajaj). More information here and here in the AEA RCT registry.
Dissemination of new agricultural technologies in Africa: making extension work - Uganda (with Luc Behaghel, Jeremie Gignoux, Monica Karuhanga Beraho, Jane Kugonza, Judith Odiol, and Margaret Najjingo Mangheni). More information in AEA RCT registry.
Adoption of improved seed varieties in DRC: experimental evidence on the role of supply constraints, targeting and intra-household decision making (with Tanguy Bernard, Sylvie Lambert, Margaux Vinez). More information here.
Long-term impacts of dissemination of biofortified crops in Uganda (with Julius Okello and Paola Mallia)
Human Capital
Cost-effectiveness study of early childhood parenting programs in Cote d'Ivoire.
- More information in AEA RCT registry.
- Info en francais: Etude Coût-Efficacité de deux programmes de Développement de la Petite Enfance
- News story on the study launch
- Article on the bigger project leading upto the cost-effectiveness study: Piloting, testing and scaling parental training: a multi-partnership approach in Côte d’Ivoire 2023 (with Romuald Anago, Tiphaine Forzy, Sosthene Guei, Charlotte Pelras, Samuel Ramde, Camille Tevenart, Julieta Vera Rueda), Frontiers in Public Health 11 (August): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1106565
Increasing schooling outcomes through reducing menstrual stigma in Madagascar: the role of young female leaders (with Julieta Vera and Duncan Webb)
Long-term Impact evaluations of randomized early childhood interventions in Nicaragua
Early childhood text messaging program in Nicaragua: see results here
Social Protection
Long-term impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico
Long-term impacts of productive safety net program in Nicaragua. More information in AEA RCT registry.
More information on these and some of my other projects