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Pascaline Dupas Department of Economics • 579 Jane Stanford Way • Stanford, CA 94305 Email: [email protected] • Phone: (650) 725 1870 Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/~pdupas/ ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University September 2019- Faculty Director, Stanford King Center on Global Development September 2020- Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) September 2014- Senior Fellow, Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) September 2014- Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, Stanford University 2014- 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University 2011- 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA 2008- 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College 2006- 2008 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Board of Editors, American Economic Review: Insights December 2017 – Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Literature January 2016 – Associate Editor, AEJ-Applied Economics January 2014 – Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics 2014 – 2020 Associate Editor, Econometrica 2014 – 2020 Foreign Editor, Review of Economic Studies 2013 –2019 Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics 2016 –2018 OTHER AFFILIATIONS Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), Affiliate and Member of the Board of Directors Brookings Global Economy and Development, Non-Resident Senior Fellow Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), Fellow National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Research Associate Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Affiliate Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Senior Fellow Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), Affiliate Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Associate Researcher PRIMARY RESEARCH FIELD: Development Economics EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, EHESS / PSE (Paris) June 2006 Ecole Normale Supérieure – Ulm (Paris) 1997-2001 MSc. (DEA), Economic Analysis and Policy, DELTA June 2000 Magistère (Economics and Econometrics), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne June 1999 Licence (Philosophy), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne June 1998 AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, 2018 Raymond Barre Visiting Professorship, Goethe University, Frankfurt 2016 Best Young French Economist Prize 2015, Le Monde, Cercle des Économistes Stanford Economics Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2014 Best Paper Prize, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, 2013-2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2012-2014 American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2011, 2012 Journal of European Economic Association Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2013 Hellman Faculty Scholarship, 2012-2013 Rainer Arnhold Fellowship, Mulago Foundation, 2005-2007 PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) 1. Chuang, Erica, Pascaline Dupas, Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban. “Sex, Lies and Measurement: Do Indirect Response survey methods work?” Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics. 2. Dupas, Pascaline, Jonathan Robinson and Santiago Saavedra (2020). “Daily Needs, Income Targets and Labor Supply: Evidence from Kenya”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 177: 399-414. 3. Basurto, Pia, Pascaline Dupas, and Jonathan Robinson (2020). “Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi”. Journal of Public Economics 185 (104047). 4. Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Ginn, Thomas; Pouliquen, Victor; Sharma, Vandana (2019), “HIV Prevention Among Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial of VCT and Male Condom Distribution in Rural Kenya”, PLOS One. 5. Dupas, Pascaline, Anthony Keats and Jonathan Robinson (2019). “The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya”. Economic Journal 129 (617): 273-310. 6. Barak Oshri, Annie Hu, Peter Adelson, Xiao Chen, Pascaline Dupas, Jeremy Weinstein, Marshall Burke, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon (2018). “Infrastructure Quality Assessment in Africa using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning”. Forthcoming, Proc. 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2018. 7. Dupas, Pascaline, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal (2018). “Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from three Countries”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Vol. 10(2), pp. 257-97. 8. Dupas, Pascaline, Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban (2018). “Risk Information, Risk Salience, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Cameroon”. Journal of Economic Organization and Behavior Vol. 145, pp. 151-175. 9. Dizon-Ross, Rebecca, Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson (2017). “Governance and Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda”. Journal of Public Economics Vol. 156, pp. 150-169. 10. Peletz, Rachel, Cock-Esteb, Alicea, Ysenburg, Dorothea, Haji, Salim, Khush, Ranjiv and Dupas, Pascaline (2017). “The supply and demand for improved sanitation: Results from randomized pricing experiments in rural Tanzania.” Environmental Science & Technology 51 (12), pp 7138–7147. 11. Dupas, Pascaline, Vivian Hoffmann, Michael Kremer and Alix Zwane (2016). “Targeting health subsidies through a non-price mechanism: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya”. Science, Vol. 353, Issue 6302, pp. 889-895. 12. Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer (2015). “Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”. American Economic Review. Vol. 105(9), pp. 2257-97. 13. Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer (2015). “School Governance, Pupil-Teacher-Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools”. Journal of Public Economics Vol. 123, pp. 92-110. 14. Cohen, Jessica, Pascaline Dupas and Simone Schaner (2015). “Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and the Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Trial”. American Economic Review 105(2), pp. 609-645. Pascaline Dupas CV, page 2 15. Benhassine, Najy, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Victor Pouliquen (2015). “Turning a Shove into a Nudge: A ‘Labeled Cash Transfer’ for Education”. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(3): 86-125. 16. Dupas, Pascaline (2014). “Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”. Econometrica 82(1): 197-228. 17. Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2013). “Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments”. American Economic Review 103(4): 1138-71. 18. Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2013). “Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5(1): 163-92 19. Devoto, Florencia, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Parienté, Vincent Pons (2012). “Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco”. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4(4): 68-99. 20. Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2012). “The (Hidden) Costs of Political Instability: Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis”. Journal of Development Economics 99(2): 314-329. 21. Bhattacharya, Debopam and Pascaline Dupas (2012). “Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints”. Journal of Econometrics, 167(1): 168-196. 22. Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer (2011). “Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya.” American Economic Review, 101(5), pp. 1739-74. 23. Dupas, Pascaline (2011). “Do Teenagers respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(1), pp. 1-36. o Awarded the 2014 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Best Paper Prize 24. Cohen, Jessica, and Pascaline Dupas (2010). “Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), pp. 1-45. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. Dupas, Pascaline, and Edward Miguel (2017). “Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries,” Handbook of Field Experiments, Vol. (2): 3-93, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, editors. Elsevier. 2. Dupas, Pascaline, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and Jonathan Robinson (2016). “Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province”. NBER volume African Successes: Modernization and Development. Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, editors. University of Chicago Press. 3. Dupas, Pascaline (2014). “Getting Essential Health Products to Their End Users: Subsidize, but How Much?” Science Vol. 345, Issue 6202, pp. 1279-1281, 12 September 2014. 4. Dupas, Pascaline (2014). “Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees.” Elsevier Encyclopedia of Health Economics, vol. 2. Anthony J. Culyer, Ed. (Elsevier, San Diego, 2014). pp. 136-141. 5. Dupas, Pascaline (2011). “Health Behavior in Developing Countries.” Annual Review of Economics 3: 425-449. 6. Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2010). “Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 100(2): 120-124. 7. Dupas, Pascaline (2009). “What matters (and what does not) in households' decision to invest in malaria prevention?” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 99(2): 224-30. 8. Duflo, Esther,
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