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
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- Agriculture et développement
- Evaluation des politiques publiques dans les pays en développement
- Capital humain et développement
Sélection de publications
Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Schooling, Learning, Fertility, and Labor Market Outcomes After 10 Years (with Tania Barham, and J.A. Maluccio). 2024. Journal of European Economic Association, jvae005.https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae005
This combines previous discussion papers CEPR 13165,CEPR 11937 and IDB-WP 432.
Online appendix
Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using tracking information to correct bias (with Teresa Molina Millan), 2023, EDCC, forthcoming.
Studying inclusive innovation with the right data: An empirical illustration from Ethiopia (with Solomon Alemu, Frederic Kosmowski, James R. Stevenson, Paola Mallia, and Lemi Taye), 2024, Agricultural Systems, 219 (103988).
The Rigor Revolution: New Standards of Evidence for Impact Assessment of International Agricultural Research (with James R. Stevenson and Douglas Gollin), 2023. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 15. 495-515.
Piloting, testing and scaling parental training: a multi-partnership approach in Côte d’Ivoire (with Romuald Anago, Tiphaine Forzy, Sosthene Guei, Charlotte Pelras, Samuel Ramde, Camille Tevenart, Julieta Vera Rueda), 2023. Frontiers in Public Health 11 (August): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1106565
Impact of Small Farmers' Access to Improved Seeds and Deforestation in DR Congo (with Tanguy Bernard, Sylvie Lambert and Margaux Vinez), 2023. Nature Communications, 14(1603), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37278-2
PRESS: Voxdev
Open access replication data
Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation (with Patrick Premand and Renos Vakis), 2022. Economic Journal,132 (647):2438–2470. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueac018
PRESS: Vox, Nature Climate Change News and Views
Open access: replication data MPV and online appendix MPV2022
Input subsidies, credit constraints, and expectations of future transfers: Evidence from Haiti (with Jeremie Gignoux, Daniel Stein and Kelsey Wright), 2022. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12337
Open access replication data
Measuring Skills in Developing Countries (with Rachid Laajaj), 2021. Journal of Human Reources, 56:1254-1295. doi:10.3368/jhr.56.4.1018-9805R1
PRESS: VoxDev
Online appendix with detailed information on methods to facilitate use in other applications
Open acces Replication data
Reconciling yield gains in agronomic trials with returns under African smallholder conditions (with Rachid Laajaj, Cargele Masso, Moses Thuita, and Bernard Vanlauwe), Scientific Reports, 10, 14286 (2020).
PRESS: Forbes, Voxdev talk Podcast
Open access Replication data
Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program (with Teresa Molina Millan, John Maluccio and Luis Tejerina), 2020, Journal of Development Economics, 143(102385), lead article. doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102385
PRESS: Foreign Affairs
Challenges to Capture the Big Five Personality Traits in non-WEIRD populations (with Rachid Laajaj, Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez, Omar Arias, Samuel Gosling, Jeff Potter, Marta Rubio-Codina, and Renos Vakis), 2019. Science Advances, 5(7): eaaw5226.
PRESS: NPR (National Public Radio), Discover Magazine, New Scientist, ORF, N+1, VoxDev,
De Morgen, Medical Xpress, De Volkskrant, Spektrum, Parsing Science (podcast)
Open access Replication data
Long Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Review of the Evidence (with Teresa Molina-Millan, Tania Barham, John Maluccio, Marco Stampini), 2019. World Bank Research Observer, 34: 119-159.
Farmers' Demand and the Traits and Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries, 2019. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 11, 483-499.
How can Randomized Control Trials help improve the design of Common Agricultural Policy? (with Luc Behaghel and Julie Subervie), 2019. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 46(3): 473-493.
Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: Women Leaders, Aspirations and Investment in Children (with Renos Vakis), 2019. in Barret, CB, MR Carter and JP Chavas, The economics of poverty traps, NBER.
Comment on “Estimating the Productivity Impacts of Technology Adoption in the Presence of Misclassification”, 2019. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.101(1), 17-18.
Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World: Evidence from a School Construction Experiment (with Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer and Sophie Naudeau), Journal of Human Resources, 2018. 53(2): 474-512.
Women’s Political Reservation, Early Childhood Development and Learning in India (with Yuvraj Pathak), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017. 65(4): 741-766.
“Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries” (with Norbert Schady Jere Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson, and Renos Vakis). Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(2): 446-463.
“Changing Households’ Investment Behavior through Social Interactions with Local Leaders: Evidence from a randomized transfer program” (with Renos Vakis), Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (May), 607–633.
“Boys’ Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions”, (with Tania Barham and John Maluccio), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2013, 103(3): 467–471.
PRESS: The Guardian
“Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” (with Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4(2): 247–273.
“Increasing Inequality and Civil Conflict in Nepal”, Oxford Economic Papers, 2011, 63(1): 1-26 (lead article).
“Insecurity of Property Rights and Social Matching in the Tenancy Market” (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet), European Economic Review, 2010, 54(7): 880-899.