Research Interests

Econometric theory (in particular identification issues)

Empirical industrial organization

Economics of education 

Biography

Education

1997-1999: ENSAI.

2003-2004: DEA EIME (Paris 1).

2003-2005: ENSAE.

2009: PhD Thesis Essay on some Identification Issues in Economics , supervised by  Jean-Marc Robin.

Jobs

2000 - 2003: researcher on data collection issues at the methodological unit (UMS) of INSEE.

2005-2008:  assistant professor in statistics at ENSAE.

2008-now:  researcher on firms strategies issues at INSEE.

Publications

On the Completeness Condition for Nonparametric Instrumental Problems, forthcoming in Econometric Theory.  

A New Instrumental Method for Dealing with Endogenous Selection (2010), Journal of Econometrics (154).  

Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation (2009), with Laurent Davezies and Denis Fougère, Econometrics Journal (12). 

Measuring the Evolution of Complex Indicators: Theory and Application to the Poverty Rate in France (2008), with Fabien Dell, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique (90).

Teaching

Econometrics at the ENSAE (2nd year): chapter 1 , chapter 2 and chapter 3 (all in French).

Short course in advanced survey sampling at the ENSAE (3rd year): course 1 , course 2 and course 3 (all in French).

Semi and nonparametric models in econometrics at the ENSAE (3rd year): quantile regression, semiparametric estimation, IV in nonlinear / nonparametric models,  partial identification. 

Work in progress

The Provision of Wage Incentives: A Structural Estimation Using Contracts Variation, with Philippe Février, revised and resubmitted to Econometrica (previous version).

Another Look at Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models, with Arnaud Maurel.

Identification of Mixture Models Using Support Variation, with Philippe Février.

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France, with Arnaud Maurel.

The Environmental Effect of Green Taxation: the Case of the French “Bonus/Malus”, with Xavier Boutin and  Pauline Givord.

The Nonparametric Econometrics of the Common Value model, with Philippe Février.

The Effects of Early Grade Retention on School Performance, with Arnaud Maurel and Jean-Marc Robin.

Other

1. Associate editor at Annales d’économie et de statistique. Referee for Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Econometrics Journal.

2. A note (in French) with Laurent Davezies on the use of survey weights in econometrics.

3. SAS macros for computing inequality indicators and their variances.

Details on the macros are available at the end of this document (in French), which is a joint work with Fabien Dell, Philippe Février and Emmanuel Massé.

4. A SAS macro for estimating the sample selection model by the Heckman two-step procedure.

Details on the macro are available in this document (in French).

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