Research
Working papers
- Toward an Understanding of Discrimination: The Case of Parsing Multiple Sources
- Bringing Contact Interventions to the Lab: Effects of Bilateral Discussions on Interethnic Trust in Senegal
PDF - Pre-analysis plan - AEA RCT Registration
- Contact Interventions: A Meta-Analysis (new version coming soon)
PDF (old version) - Pre-analysis plan
- Improving the Perception of the Police by the Youth
Publications
The effect of the 7R allele at the DRD4 locus on risk tolerance is independent of background risk in Senegalese fishermen, Scientific Reports 13, 622 (2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-27002-3
(with A. Mbegue, C. Mettling, B. Diouf, C. Faurie, O. Sene, E. Chancerel, E. Guichoux, G. Hollard, M. Raymond and M. Willinger)
It has been shown that living in risky environments, as well as having a risky occupation, can moderate risk-tolerance. Despite the involvement of dopamine in the expectation of reward described by neurobiologists, a GWAS study was not able to demonstrate a genetic contribution of genes involved in the dopaminergic pathway in risk attitudes and gene candidate studies gave contrasting results. We test the possibility that a genetic effect of the DRD4-7R allele in risk-taking behavior could be modulated by environmental factors. We show that the increase in risk-tolerance due to the 7R allele is independent of the environmental risk in two populations in Northern Senegal, one of which is exposed to a very high risk due to dangerous fishing.Richard H. Thaler et les limites de la rationalité, Revue d'économie politique 2018/4 (Vol. 128), p. 535-548, DOI : 10.3917/redp.284.0535.
(with Guillaume Hollard and Fabien Perez)
French - On October 9, 2017, Richard H. Thaler was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in behavioral economics. This article presents his main contributions, namely the establishment of a list of anomalies of human behaviors from the perspective of rational models, the laying of the foundations for a quasi-rational model inspired by psychology, and the approach to public policy commonly known as “nudge.” As a conclusion, we more subjectively comment on the influence Thaler has had on economics and speculate on a possible path forward for behavioral economics.Work in progress
A large-scale field experiment to disentangle sources of statistical discrimination in a social setting, with Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Helmut Dietl and Juan Cruz Duhalde (Pre-analysis plan)
Citizen Participation and Trust in the Police: Evaluation of the Foros de Seguridad Pública of the City of Buenos Aires, with Franco Albino (Pre-analysis plan)
Race change and electoral outcomes in Brazil, with Jeffrey Flory
GUIder la Statistique publique Sénégalaise : Téléphonie, Algorithmique et Nouvelles techniques Numériques (GUISSTANN)
Other work
Gwen-Jiro Clochard and Emilie Alberola (2017), International Collaborations in Industry on Climate Change Mitigation R&I Initiatives, CARISMA Delivrables 7.3, October 2017
Lindner, Sören, Emilie Alberola, Monica Alesi, Arno Behrens, Gwen-Jiro Clochard, Heleen de Connick, Katja Tuokko (2017), International R&I collaboration on mitigation: Examples of international climate change mitigation research and innovation collaboration between the European Union and developing countries, CARISMA Working Document no. 5, May 2017
Van der Gaast, Wytze, Gwen-Jiro Clochard, Emilie Alberola, Andreas Türk, Noriko Fujiwara, Niki-Artemis Spyridaki (2016), Effects of interactions between EU Climate and Energy Policies, CARISMA Working Document No. 3, November 2016
Social Health Inequalities are truly harmful: Evidence from an empirical investigation in France (with Omar Sene)
Are Ethnic Divisions a Tragedy for Public Good Provision in Africa? (joint with Guillaume Hollard)
More Effort or Better Technologies? On the Effect of Relative-Performance Feedback (with Guillaume Hollard and Julia Wirtz)