Publications

Publications

Zola, A. & Carbuccia, L. (Under review). Compensate or Enable? Popular Priorities for Social Protection in an Era of Fiscal Constraint.

Carbuccia, L. (Accepted) Using decomposition techniques and machine learning to investigate the determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in early childcare access. PNAS Nexus.  https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kgr67   

Bolano, D., Balbo, N., Panico, L., De Luca, F., & Carbuccia, L. (2026). Home, Work, and Care: Working from Home and Parental Wellbeing in Families Raising Children with Disabilities. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-026-03958-x 

Carbuccia, L., Heim, A., Barone, C., & Chevallier, C. (2026). A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02293-4 Full-text PDF.

Wolff, A., Carbuccia, L., Makine, Z. & Nettle, D. (2026) Living on the edge: investigating experiences of poverty through the lens of the Desperation Threshold Model. Human Nature. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r4svz

Carbuccia, L., Thouzeau, V., Barone, C. & Chevallier, C. (2025) Unequal access to early childcare: What role do cognitive and behavioral factors play? A PRISMA systematic review. Mind & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00331-2 

Working Papers, Preprints & other things with a doi

Carbuccia, L., Bolano, D., Balbo, N., Panico, L.,  & De Luca, F. (2026}). Disability of a child: strong social inequalities and financial difficulties. Fiches Premiers Résultats d'enquête, 25, INED. DOI: 10.48756/ined-1res-1.26.

Bolano, D., Balbo, N., Panico, L., De Luca, F., & Carbuccia, L. (2026). Employment and well-being of parents having a child with a disability.  Fiches Premiers Résultats d'enquête, 26, INED. DOI: 10.48756/ined-1res-1.26

Carbuccia, L.,Thouzeau, V., Barone, C., & Chevallier, C. (2022) Unequal access to early childcare: What role do demand-side factors play? A PRISMA systematic review, Sciences Po LIEPP Working Paper n°138. 

Carbuccia, L. (2020) Interventions to foster academic aspirations adjustment among disadvantaged and female students - A PRISMA systematic review of literature, Sciences Po LIEPP Working Paper n°114. 

Reports 

In English

Carbuccia, L. (2024) Demand-side determinants of the socioeconomic gap in ECEC enrollment in France. LIEPP/Caisse Nationale d’Allocations Familiales. 

In French

Carbuccia, L., Barone, C. (2022) Les politiques d’accompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants. E-ssentiel 206, Caisse nationale des allocations familiales.

Carbuccia, L., Barone, C., Borst, G., Greulich, A., Panico, L., & Tô, M.  (2020) Revues de littérature sur les politiques d'accompagnement au développement des jeunes enfants. Dossier d'étude 215, Caisse nationale des allocations familiales.

Popular audience 

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12/2024 : Rapport de la Cour des Comptes - Annexe 1 (Report of the French National Court of Auditors on the French early childcare policy)

06/2024: S’attaquer aux inégalités d’accès aux modes d’accueil (Tackling early childcare access inequalities) Aux origines de la confiance. L’éveil du jeune enfant au cœur d’une révolution éducative Article for Vers Le Haut Foundation.

09/2023: Inégalités d’accès aux modes de garde en France (Early childcare inequalities in France) Interview for Grenoble city magazine

12/2022: Vers une réduction des inégalités d'accès aux crèches (Towards a reduction of early childcare inequalities) Interview for the Mustela fundation following their research award.

12/2022: L'apport des sciences comportementales pour lutter contre les inégalités dès la petite enfance (The added value of behavioral science to fight inequalities during early childhood) Interview for the DEC new n°66 

2022: Les politiques d’accompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants. L'e-ssentiel, Collection Etudes & Recherche, Publication de la Caisse nationale des allocations familiales, n°206.