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, IFS research associate. Follow the link to my CV Email: lebarbanchon (at) unibocconi.it Codes and datasets available at my git page: https://github.com/tlebarbanchon/ NEWS: I will join the REStud and the JEEA editorial boards from 2021 onwards. |
Publications:
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis (with L. Hensvik and R. Rathelot), Journal of Public Economics, accepted.
Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute against Wage (with R. Rathelot and A. Roulet), Quarterly Journal of Economics, accepted.
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:
Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow, submitted.
Previously circulated under the title: Partial Unemployment Insurance
Electoral Competition, Voter bias and Women in Politics (with J. Sauvagnat), R&R Journal of the European Economic Association.
Media: vox.
The Effects of Working while in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries (with D. Ubfal), submitted.
Work in progress:
Recommender Systems and the Labor Market (with Lena Hensvik and Roland Rathelot).
Labor Market Power, Business Cycles, and Minimum Wages (with Horng Wong and Roland Rathelot).
Vacancy Yield and Recruitment Strategy. (with Riccardo Franceschin).
Data Reports:
Which jobs are done from home? Evidence from the American Time-Use Survey (with Lena Hensvik and Roland Rathelot).
Task content in France (with Nicolo Rizzotti)
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]