Gabrielle FACK

Research Interests:
Primary: Applied Economics, Public Economics
Secondary: Urban and Housing Economics

Supervisor: Thomas Piketty (PSE)

References: Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) - Rebecca Blank (University of Michigan) - Stephen Machin (University College London)

Job Market Paper: Do Better School Raise Housing Prices? Evidence from Paris School Zoning (with Julien Grenet)    

Second Paper: Are Fiscal Incentives Toward Charitable Giving Efficient? (with Camille Landais)    

Publications:
#1 - Are Housing Benefits an Effective Way to Redistribute Income? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in France, Labour Economics, vol 13 (6), December 2006
#2 - Pourquoi les ménages à bas revenus paient-ils des loyers de plus en plus élevés ? L'incidence des aides au logement en France (1973-2002), Economie et Statistique, n°381-382, October 2005.

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François LE GRAND

Research Interests:
Primary: Macro-Finance, Finance, Macroeconomics
Secondary: Decision Theory

Supervisor: Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics)

References: Yann Algan (PSE) - Guy Laroque (INSEE and UCL)

Job Market Paper:
Paper #1 - Nelson and Siegel, No-Arbitrage and Risk Premium   
Paper #2 - Incomplete Markets and the Yield Curve
(with E. Challe and X. Ragot)   

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Fabrice MURTIN

Research Interests :
Primary: Economics of Education, Economic History, Income Distribution
Secondary: Bayesian Methods, Long-Memory, Economics of Pensions, HIV/AIDS

Supervisor : François Bourguignon (EHESS - PSE)

References : Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford) - David Grusky (Stanford University) - Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE) - Georges de Ménil (PSE - EHESS)

Job Market Paper :
#1 - American Economic Development Since the Civil War or the Virtue of Education (2006)   
#2 - Education inequalities and the Kuznets Curves   
#3 - Structural Change and the Endogeneity Bias of the College Premium in the US 1968-2001   

Publications:
#1 - Estimation des Modèles à Correction d'Erreur Fractionnaire: une Note Méthodologique (2005), with S. Lardic and V. Mignon, Journal de la Société Française de Statistiques Vol. 146, N.4
#2 - Planning for the Optimal Mix of Paygo Tax and Funded Savings (2006), with G. de Ménil and E. Sheshinski, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Vol.5, No.1
#3 - L'inégalité mondiale de l'éducation et du revenu entre individus (1870-2000), with C. Morrisson, forthcoming Economie et Prévision

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Amine OUAZAD

Research Interests:
Primary: Economics of Education, Econometrics
Secondary: Labor Economics, Public Economics

Supervisor: Eric Maurin (PSE)

References: Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE) - Stephen Machin (University College London) - Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University)

Job Market Paper: Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race, Gender and Subjective Evaluations

Second Paper: What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools and Peers in Achievement

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