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

Forthcoming

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008 

With Fabien Dell, Measuring the Evolution of Complex Indicators: Theory and Application to the Poverty Rate in France, 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).

Work in progress

1. With Philippe Février, Inference on Adverse Selection Models through Contracts Variation, may 2009.

Supplementary material on the paper :

2. With Arnaud Maurel, Another Look at Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models, september 2009. 

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

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

5. With Jean-Marc Robin, The Effects of Early Grade Retention on School Performance.

Other

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

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 zip

(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 zip

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

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