I am Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris), on leave from the University of Warwick
And Research Affiliate at BREAD, CEPR, EUDN and JPAL.
Research Interests: Development, Environment, Labor, Public, and Political economy.
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My email address is clement.imbert `at' sciencespo.fr
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Working Papers:
Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France (with Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand and Todor Tochev)
Revision submitted at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil (with Gabriel Ulyssea) [CEPR]
Revision requested at Econometrica
Expected Benefits and Costs of Migration for Rural Youth: Experimental Evidence from India (with Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Bhaskar Chakravorty, and Roland Rathelot)
Submitted
Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity (with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg)
Submitted
Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Experimental Evidence from India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande)
New version coming soon
Publications:
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India (with Wiji Arulampalam, Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, and Roland Rathelot) [IZA] [Latest Draft]
Forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Simon Fanklin, Girum Abebe and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla)
Fortcoming at the American Economic Review
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on India’s Rural Youth: Evidence from a Panel Survey and an Experiment (with Bhaskar Chakravorty, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Maximilian Lohnert, Poonam Panda, and Roland Rathelot)
World Development (2023) 118, 106242 . [Latest Draft]
Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China (with Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg)
American Economic Review (2022) 112 (6): 1885-1914 [Latest Draft] Blog: VoxDev
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium (with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Johannes Spinnewijn, Teodora Tsankova and Maarten Luts)
Journal of Political Economy (2021) 129 (5): 1425-1463 . [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU
Costs and Benefits of Rural-Urban Migration: Evidence from India (with John Papp)
Journal of Development Economics (2020) 146, 102473 . [Latest Draft]
E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Santhosh Mathew and Rohini Pande)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020) 12 (4): 39-72. [Latest Draft] Earlier version [NBER] Blogs: VoxDev
Short-term Migration, Rural Public Works and Urban Labor Markets: Evidence from India (with John Papp)
Journal of the European Economic Association (2020) 18(2): 927–963. [Latest Draft] Blogs: VoxEU. Media coverage: Hindustan Times Ideas for India
Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee (with John Papp)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2015) 7(2): 233-263. [Latest draft] Blogs: VoxDev Media coverage: Ideas for India
Decomposing wage inequality: public and private sectors in Vietnam 1993-2006
World Bank Economic Review (2013) 27(1): 55-79. [Latest draft]
Work in Progress:
Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Kenneth Houngbdeji, Sam Marshall, Julien Wolfersberger, and Liam Wren-Lewis)
Other Publications:
Covid-19: Expected migrant movement as lockdown eases
Ideas for India 1st May 2020. Data [Devdatalab].
Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries (with François Gerard and Kate Orkin)
Oxford Review of Economic Policy Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, 2020, Pages S281–S296.
Estimating leakages in India’s employment guarantee (with John Papp),
In Reetika Khera, editor, The battle for employment guarantee. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Estimating leakages in India's employment guarantee: an update (with John Papp)
Media Coverage: The Hindu and Indian Express
Travailler pour être aidé? L'emploi garanti indien Opuscule Cepremap n°33, ENS Editions, Paris.
Teaching:
Development Economics (MRes/PhD 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Syllabus 2017-2018; 2018-19; 2020-21 ; 2021-22 ; 2022-23
Development Economics (Undergraduate 3nd year, University of Warwick): Labor markets
Development Economics (Undergraduate 2nd year, University of Warwick)
Development Economics (MPhil/PhD 2nd year, University of Oxford): State and development.
Quantitative Methods (MSc in Development Economics, University of Oxford): Treatment Effects.
Past PhD-Students:
Teodora Tsankova (Tilburg University)
Felix Forster (Ofcom, UK government)
Neha Bose (CMA, UK government)
Apurav Yash Bhatiya (Birmingham University)
Karmini Sharma (Stanford)
Ashish Aggarwal (Analysis Group)