Teaching Assistant: 2classes, 36 hours (3 hrs/week) + HO
Class description: here
Topics covered:
1. Difference-in-Differences
2. Regression Discontinuities Models
3. Panel Data Models
4. Binary Data Models
5. Censoring and selection
Summary of the 3 first sessions, I wrote for my classes, can be found here.
Teaching Assistant: 2classes, 36 houJ-PAL Summer School 2025: Development Methodologies
Aimed to give a non-specialist audience a solid understanding of impact evaluations and what they entail, in order to prepare them to engage in a similar process. Alternated between theoretical sessions and group work where participants can apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to their own programmes.
Topics: Impact Evaluation, Theory of Change, Indicators and Measurements, Randomization, Cost‑benefit Analysis, Threats to Randomization.
Lecturer
Topics covered:
1. Difference-in-Differences
2. Synthetic designs
3. Panel Data Models
4. Applications in Stata
Econometrics Theory Applied Econometrics| Development Economics
Reviewing :Testing nested or non-nested hypotheses, Christian GOURIEROUX et al., 1983.
First part : state of the art in the domain of interest at the publication date and review of the relevant literature.
Second part : summary of the article(s) stressing the important notions and the new results.
Third part : personal evaluation of the paper(s) highlighting the important results, indicating the missing points and proposing some possible improvements and directions for further research.
My writings | Reviews:
Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities. Bettencourt, and Helbing
Organizational Diversity, Vitality and Outcomes in the Civil rights Black Movement
GitHub for replication: Here
Notes on : Should conditional cash transfers be conditional?
Team: Jeanne Astier, Louis Briens, Gaitan Menard, & Doulo Sow:
Case A: Predicting the Hotspots of Child Malnutrition In African Countries
Case B: Predicting Food Insecurity In Chad
GitHub for replication: Here
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment