Oriana Bandiera specializes in the design of field experiments to evaluate how individual behavior is shaped by monetary incentives and social relationships.
Luc Behaghel is interested in the impact of aging populations as well as rural development policies on labor market outcomes and is working on a large-scale randomized evaluation of a program counseling the unemployed in France.
Ph.D., French Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
Martina Bjorkman, Assistant Professor of Economics at IGIER, Bocconi University, studies the provision and impact of public services to the poor in sub-Saharan Africa.
Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labor economics and environmental economics.
Bruno Crépon is a researcher at CREST and an Associate Professor at ENSAE and École Polytechnique. The focus of his research is on policy evaluation with special attention to labor market policies.
Greg Fischer is a Lecturer of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation in developing countries.
Marc Gurgand is an Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on labor market policies, schooling and inequality in both developing and developed countries.
Elise joined J-PAL in September 2008 and is currently working on three randomized evaluations of programs on education in Romania, youth entrepreneurship in France and banking reform in Moldova.
Eric Maurin is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Research, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) at the Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on education, labor, and econometrics.
William joined J-PAL in 2006 as a post-doctoral fellow, focusing on access to credit, poverty, and health issues. He is currently working on several randomized evaluations in Morocco, Pakistan and France.
Imran Rasul is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. His areas of interest focus on labor economics and household economics.
Jakob Svensson is a Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. His research interests include corruption, accountability in service delivery programs, and political economy.
CREST, French Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
Philippe Zamora is a researcher at the Centre de Recherches en Economie et Statistiques (CREST). His research interests are focused on labor market policies and continuous training.