Patrick Premand - Papers and Publications

Recent papers

Texting Parents about Early Child Development: Behavioral Changes and Unintended Social Effects. With Oscar Barrera, Karen Macours and Renos Vakis. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.

The Earlier the Better? Cash Transfers for Drought Response in Niger. With Ashley Pople, Stefan Dercon, Margaux Vinez and Stephanie Brunelin.

Impacts and Spillovers of a Low-Cost Multifaceted Economic Inclusion Program in Chad With Pascale Schnitzer. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Public Economics.

Policy report in French

Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection? Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire. With Alicia Marguerie.

Publications

Journal Articles

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia and Patrick Premand. Forthcoming. Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

- Complementary material: VoxDev Talks Podcast, Policy Report in French, Policy Note on Public Works as part of initiative on evidence-base policy making in the employment sector in Cote d'Ivoire, story in Le Monde.

Thomas, Catherine; Premand, Patrick; Bossuroy, Thomas; Sambo, Soumaila Abdoulaye; Marcus, Hazel and Gregory Walton. Forthcoming. How Culturally Wise Psychological Interventions Help Reduce Poverty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Premand, Patrick and Nathan Fiala. 2025. Community monitoring and social accountability in development projects: Experimental evidence from Uganda. Journal of Development Economics.

- Complementary material: Policy Report, Policy Brief.

Premand, Patrick and Bruno Crépon. 2024. Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships. The Review of Economic Studies.

Complementary material: Policy Report in French, Policy Note in English, Policy Note in French, Policy Note on Apprenticeship as part of initiative on evidence-base policy-making in the employment sector in Cote d'Ivoire, Press coverage in L'Economiste du Faso.

Bagga, Aanchal; Holmlund, Marcus; Khan, Nausheen; Mani, Subha; Mvukiyehe, Eric and Patrick Premand. 2024. Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from low- and middle-income countries. World Bank Research Observer.

Blog post

Premand, Patrick and Dominic Rohner. 2024. Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger. American Economic Review: Insights.

Complementary material: American Economic Association Featured Chart

Bossuroy, Thomas, Goldstein, Markus; Karimou, Bassirou; Karlan, Dean; Kazianga, Harounan; Premand, Patrick; Thomas, Catherine C.; Udry, Chris; Parienté, William; Vaillant, Julia and Kelsey A. Wright. 2022. Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty. Nature

Nature Research Briefing: "Addressing social, psychological and economic barriers helps people out of extreme poverty"
Nature community blog post on how we obtained these results through a collaboration between researchers and policymakers
Video describing the program
Blog post describing the program
Earlier blog post on results
This study is part of a multi-country RCT as part of the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program: Project Brief, Project page, Project Overview

Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick and Renos Vakis, 2022. Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?, The Economic Journal.

Summary article by Sarah Janzen in Nature Climate Change, "Anti-poverty programmes build resilience"
Complementary material: Policy Brief, Vox article.

Premand, Patrick and Quentin Stoeffler. 2022. Cash Transfers, Climatic Shocks and Resilience in the Sahel, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Summary on PreventionWeb
Summary brief on safety nets in Niger

Premand, Patrick and Oumar Barry. 2022. Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development. Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-income Setting. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 158.

Complementary material: Policy Report in French; Policy Brief, Story and video on program; Case Study on Social Protection and Nutrition and related blog post.
Summary brief on safety nets in Niger

Premand, Patrick and Pascale Schnitzer. 2021. Efficiency, Legitimacy and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger. World Bank Economic Review 35(4): 892-920.

Alaref, Jumana; Brodmann, Stefanie and Patrick Premand. 2020. "The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia." Labour Economics 62:101787.

Stoeffler, Quentin; Mill, Brad and Patrick Premand. 2020. "Poor Households’ Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Niger." Journal of African Economies 29(1): 63-89.

de Hoop, Jacob; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio and Renos Vakis, 2017."Women’s Economic Capacity and Children’s Human Capital Accumulation." Journal of Population Economics 31, pp. 453-481.

Premand, Patrick; Brodmann, Stefanie; Almeida, Rita; Grun, Rebekka; and Mahdi Barouni, 2016. ”Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates”. World Development, 77, pp. 311-327.

Complementary material: Policy Brief in English, Policy Brief in French.

Premand, Patrick and Renos Vakis, 2010. “Do Shocks Affect Poverty Persistence? Evidence from Welfare Trajectories in Nicaragua”, Well-Being and Social Policy Vol. 6(1), Special Issue on Natural Disasters in Latin America.

Complementary material: Spanish version

Premand, Patrick, 2010, “Hurricane Mitch and Consumption Growth of Nicaraguan Agricultural Households”, Well-Being and Social Policy Vol. 6(1), Special Issue on Natural Disasters in Latin America.

Complementary material: Spanish version

Handbook

(>400,000 downloads as of October 2024)

Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick; Rawlings, Laura B. and Christel M. J. Vermeersch, 2016. Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition. World Bank, Washington DC.

Complementary material: book website, openknowledge repository download page, Spanish Version, Portuguese version, see book website for HISP case study (including stata files) and Technical Companion.

Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick; Rawlings, Laura B. and Christel M. J. Vermeersch, 2011. Impact Evaluation in Practice. World Bank, Washington DC.

Complementary material: Openknowledge repository, French version, Spanish Version, Portuguese version, Rema Hanna's book review in Journal of Economic Literature

Reports, book chapters, policy publications and permanent working papers

Fernandez, Chloe and Patrick Premand, 2025. Impact of Social Protection and Jobs Policies in the Sahel.

Bossuroy, Thomas; Koussoube, Estelle and Patrick Premand. 2020. Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel: Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment. World Bank, Washington, DC.

Christiaensen, Luc; and Patrick Premand (editors). 2017. Côte d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic: Employment, Productivity, and Inclusion for Poverty Reduction. World Bank, Washington.

Complementary material: French version, Policy note.

Barry, Oumar, Mory Maidoka, Ali and Patrick Premand, 2017. "Promoting positive parenting practices in Niger through a cash transfer programme." Early Childhood Matters.

Hatzimasoura, Chrysanthi; Premand, Patrick and Renos Vakis. 2017. Productive Transfers, Intra-household Bargaining and Empowerment Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Nicaragua. World Bank, Washington DC.

Filmer, Deon; Fox, Louise; with Karen Brooks; Aparajita Goyal; Taye Mengistae; Patrick Premand; Dena Ringold; Siddharth Sharma; and Sergiy Zorya, 2014. Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa Development Forum Series, World Bank, Washington DC.

Complementary material: Book website, Blog and press release, Executive summary, French version, French version executive summary.

Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick and Renos Vakis, 2013. Demand Versus Returns? Pro-Poor Targeting of Business Grants and Vocational Skills Training. Policy Research Working Paper No. 6389, World Bank, Washington DC.

Naudeau, Sophie; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick and Deon Filmer, 2011. "Cognitive Development Among Young Children in Low-Income Countries", in H. Alderman, 2011. No Small Matter: The Impact of Poverty, Shocks and Human Capital Investments in Early Childhood Development, Human Development Perspectives Series, World Bank, Washington DC.

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