Laudine Carbuccia

I am a last-year Ph.D. student interested in how public policies can shape families' environments and under which conditions these policies help promote healthy development in early childhood. Keen to mix disciplines and use quantitative and qualitative methods, my work is currently at the crossroads of public policy, cognitive science, sociology, and economics.

For my Ph.D., I focus on early childcare decision-making and the determinants of the SES gap in early childcare enrollment in France. I implemented a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an intervention I conceived targeting informational and behavioral/administrative barriers to understand to what extent these factors can contribute to the SES gap in early childcare enrollment. 

You can access my CV here. 

From Winter and Spring 2024, I was doing a research stay hosted by Ariel Kalil, at the Harris School of Public Policy (University of Chicago). 

I hold a transdisciplinary bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Cognitive Science from the ENS / PSL University. I am doing my Ph.D. between the Center for Research on Social Inequalities at Sciences Po (Paris), and the Evolution and Social Cognition Team at the ENS/PSL University. I am also affiliated with the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policy (LIEPP, Sciences Po).

I am co-supervised by Carlo Barone (Full Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po) and Coralie Chevallier (Cognitive scientist, ENS/PSL). 

I attach great importance to ensuring that my research does not remain confined to the lab, but instead reaches policy-makers and societal actors. In this regard, for example, I work closely with the Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes), supporting them in evaluating early childhood policy in France. I also collaborate with the National Family Allowance Fund, the OECD, the Break Poverty Foundation, the Ardian Foundation, and early childcare professionals through training programs (such as with the Maternal and Child Protection Services in Paris) and roundtable discussions. 

I am the leader of the Family Policy research group at the LIEPP, jointly with Montserrat Botey.

Outside the lab, I am also a proud member of the two associations:

• ACTE Lab (Behavioral approaches to the ecological transition) 

• Scalp!, that aims to foster interactions between Cognitive Science and Society