I am Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris)
I am also affiliated with BREAD, CEPR, EUDN, and JPAL.
My research interests are: Development, Environment, Labor, Public Economics, and Political Economy.
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My email address is clement.imbert `at' sciencespo.fr
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My paper Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France (with Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand and Todor Tochev) just came out in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17 (4), 1-29 (Lead Article) [Latest Draft]
My review chapter on Public Works (with Arthur Alik-Lagrange) will be published soon in the Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence to Inform Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Editors Rema Hanna and Ben Olken)
My paper How do beliefs and preferences over jobs affect enrollment in vocational training: Experimental evidence from India (with Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Bhaskar Chakravorty, and Roland Rathelot) is forthcoming at the European Economic Review [Latest Draft]
Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil (with Gabriel Ulyssea) Econometrica [CEPR] forthcoming
Voter's awareness of social insurance programs impacts electoral candidature: Experimental evidence from India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande) Revision resubmitted at the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics
Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity (with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg)
Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Kenneth Houngbdeji, Sam Marshall, Julien Wolfersberger, and Liam Wren-Lewis)
Rain-fed Cisterns Reduce Migration and Mortality in the Brazilian Semi-arid Region (with Diogo Britto, Breno Sampaio, Gabriel Ulyssea, and Alexandre Fonseca).
Seasonal Climate Migration: Evidence from India with John Firth, Rajat Kochhar, Anant Sudarshan and Tiffany Tee.
How do beliefs and preferences over jobs affect enrollment in vocational training: Experimental evidence from India (with Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Bhaskar Chakravorty, and Roland Rathelot) European Economic Review [Latest Draft] forthcoming
Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France (with Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand and Todor Tochev) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2025), 17 (4), 1-29 (Lead Article) [Latest Draft]
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India (with Wiji Arulampalam, Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, and Roland Rathelot) Journal of Development Economics (2024) 169, 103273 [IZA] [Latest Draft].
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Simon Fanklin, Girum Abebe and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla) American Economic Review (2024) 113, 1382-1414 . [Latest Draft] Blogs: AEA Research Highlights VoxDev
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on India’s Rural Youth: Evidence from a Panel Survey and an Experiment (with Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Maximilian Lohnert, Poonam Panda, and Roland Rathelot) World Development (2023) 118, 106242 . [Latest Draft]
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China (with Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg) American Economic Review (2022) 112 (6): 1885-1914 [Latest Draft] Blog: VoxDev
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium (with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Johannes Spinnewijn, Teodora Tsankova and Maarten Luts) Journal of Political Economy (2021) 129 (5): 1425-1463 . [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU
Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries (with François Gerard and Kate Orkin) Oxford Review of Economic Policy Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, 2020, Pages S281–S296.
Costs and Benefits of Rural-Urban Migration: Evidence from India (with John Papp) Journal of Development Economics (2020) 146, 102473 . [Latest Draft]
E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Santhosh Mathew and Rohini Pande) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020) 12 (4): 39-72. [Latest Draft] Earlier version [NBER] Blogs: VoxDev
Short-term Migration, Rural Public Works and Urban Labor Markets: Evidence from India (with John Papp) Journal of the European Economic Association (2020) 18(2): 927–963. [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU. Media coverage: Hindustan Times Ideas for India
Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee (with John Papp) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2015) 7(2): 233-263. [Latest draft] Blogs: VoxDev Media coverage: Ideas for India
Decomposing wage inequality: public and private sectors in Vietnam 1993-2006 World Bank Economic Review (2013) 27(1): 55-79. [Latest draft]