Thomas Le Barbanchon
Associate Professor at Bocconi University
Research interests: labor economics, public finance and econometrics. CEPR, CREST, J-PAL, LEAP, BIDSA and IGIER affiliate, IZA research fellow. Follow the link to my CV Email: lebarbanchon (at) unibocconi.it News: I have been awarded an ERC starting grant 2017 for the research project "Direct empirical evidence on labor market search theories". |
Publications:
The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits (with P. Cahuc and S. Carcillo), The Review of Economic Studies, 86(2), 2019.
Media: Les échos, Le Monde
Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from administrative data (with R. Rathelot and A. Roulet), Journal of Public Economics, 178, 2019.
Media: vox
Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable (with L. Davezies), Journal of Econometrics, 200(1), 2017.
The Effect of the Potential Benefit Duration of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Exits to Work and Match Quality in France, Labour Economics, 42, October 2016.
Media: France inter
Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models (with L. Behaghel, B. Crépon and M. Gurgand), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(5), December 2015.
Media: world bank blog
Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes (with L. Behaghel and B. Crépon), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(3), July 2015.
The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job finding Rates in France (with J-O Hairault and T. Sopraseuth), European Economic Review, 76, May 2015.
Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain (with S. Bentolila, P. Cahuc and J. Dolado), The Economic Journal, 122, August 2012.
Media: vox
Labor Market Policy in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model (with P. Cahuc), Labour Economics, 17(1), January 2010.
Working papers:
Partial Unemployment Insurance, under revision.
Previously circulated under the title: Optimal Partial Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Bunching in the U.S.
Work in progress:
Working While Studying (with Diego Ubfal).
Firm's Take-up of Public programs and Tax Credit (with Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo).
The Gender Reservation Wage Gap (with Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet).
Recommender Systems and the Labor Market (with Lena Hensvik and Roland Rathelot).
French Peer-Reviewed Publication:
Do Job Seekers Benefit from more Frequent Interviews with their Caseworkers? (with M. Fontaine), Economie et Prévision, vol. 204-205, issue 1, 2014.
Response of French and U.S. Labor Markets to Cyclical Shocks (1986-2007): A DSGE Model (with O. Simon), Economie et statistique, issues 451-453, 2012.
Microsimulation and Agent Models: an Alternative to the Assessment of Employment Policies (with M. Barlet and D. Blanchet), Economie et statistique, issues 429-430, 2009.
Public Policy Evaluation Reports:
Counseling Scheme for Young Candidates to Vocational Apprenticeship: Evidence from RCTs (with B. Crépon, R. Rathelot and P. Zamora) [download in French]
Hiring Discrimination and Anonymous Job Applications (with L. Behaghel and B. Crépon) [download in French]