I am Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris), on leave from the University of Warwick
I am also Research Affiliate at BREAD, CEPR, EUDN and JPAL.
My research interests: Development, Environment, Labor, Public, and Political economy.
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My email address is clement.imbert `at' sciencespo.fr
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My advisee Sam Marshall is on the job market this year! Check out his profile here: https://sites.google.com/view/samuelmarshall/home
Sciences Po is hiring this year, looking for econometrics, environment and health. Apply here: https://econjobmarket.org/positions/10952
Working Papers:
Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France (with Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand and Todor Tochev)
Conditionally accepted at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil (with Gabriel Ulyssea) [CEPR]
Revision resubmitted at Econometrica
Voter's awareness of social insurance programs impacts electoral candidature: Experimental evidence from India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande)
Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics
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)
Submitted
Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity (with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg)
Submitted
Publications:
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) [IZA] [Latest Draft]
Journal of Development Economics (2024) 169, 103273 .
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: AER 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
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]
Work in Progress:
Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Kenneth Houngbdeji, Sam Marshall, Julien Wolfersberger, and Liam Wren-Lewis)
Dry Lives: Climate Adaptation and Mortality in the Semi-arid Regions of Brazil (with Diogo Britto, Breno Sampaio, Gabriel Ulyssea, and Alexandre Fonseca
Other Publications:
Covid-19: Expected migrant movement as lockdown eases
Ideas for India 1st May 2020. Data [Devdatalab].
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.
Estimating leakages in India’s employment guarantee (with John Papp),
In Reetika Khera, editor, The battle for employment guarantee. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Estimating leakages in India's employment guarantee: an update (with John Papp)
Media Coverage: The Hindu and Indian Express
Travailler pour être aidé? L'emploi garanti indien Opuscule Cepremap n°33, ENS Editions, Paris.
Teaching:
Development Economics (MRes/PhD 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Syllabus 2017-2018; 2018-19; 2020-21 ; 2021-22 ; 2022-23
Development Economics (Undergraduate 3nd year, University of Warwick): Labor markets
Development Economics (Undergraduate 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Development Economics (MPhil/PhD 2nd year, University of Oxford): State and development.
Quantitative Methods (MSc in Development Economics, University of Oxford): Treatment Effects.
Past PhD-Students:
Ashish Aggarwal (Analysis Group)
Apurav Yash Bhatiya (Birmingham University)
Neha Bose (CMA, UK government)
Felix Forster (Ofcom, UK government)
Karmini Sharma (Imperial Business School)
Todor Tochev (Institut des Politiques Publiques)
Teodora Tsankova (Tilburg University)