Pascaline Dupas UCLA Department of Economics • 8283 Bunche Hall • Los Angeles, CA 90095 Email: [email protected] • Phone: (310) 8225 7380 Webpage: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/pdupas/
ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA July 2008-present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College July 2006-June 2008
OTHER AFFILIATIONS • Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Since August 2009 • Affiliate, Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA) Since May 2009 • Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Since May 2008 • Affiliate, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Since March 2008 • Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) Since August 2006 • Associate Researcher, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Since July 2006
PRIMARY RESEARCH FIELDS Applied Microeconomics, Development, Health.
EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, EHESS & PSE-DELTA (Paris, France) June 2006 Visiting Scholar, NYU (IFS) 2003-2006 Visiting Student, MIT (Economics Department) 2002-2003 Visiting Fellow, Harvard (Economics Department) Fall 2000, Spring 2002 Ecole Normale Supérieure – Ulm (Paris, France) 1997-2002 Master’s in Economic Analysis and Policy, DELTA (joint with ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique) June 2000 B.Sc. Economics and Econometrics, Paris I Sorbonne (France) June 1999
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1. 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. » Mentioned in The Economist, The Boston Globe, Nature, Scientific American 2. 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. » Mentioned in The New York Times, The Boston Globe 3. Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer. “Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya”. Forthcoming 2011, American Economic Review. » Mentioned in The Financial Times
OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. Dupas, Pascaline (2011). “Health Behavior in Developing Countries.” Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics (volume 3). 2. 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. 3. 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.
Last update: June 2011 4. Duflo, Esther, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer (2009). “Can Tracking Improve Learning? Evidence from Kenya”. Education Next, 9 (3), pp. 64-70. 5. Cohen, Daniel, and Pascaline Dupas (2000). “Comparing the Paths of the Unemployed in France and the United States”, Economie et Statistiques, 332-333, pp. 17-26.
WORKING PAPERS 1. “Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints” (June 2011, with Debopam Bhattacharya); NBER WP #14447. Revised and Resubmitted, Journal of Econometrics. 2. “Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and the Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Trial”. (June 2011, with Jessica Cohen and Simone Schaner.) 3. “Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments” (June 2011, with Jonathan Robinson) 4. “Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya” (June 2011, with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer) 5. “Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco.” (February 2011, with Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, William Pariente and Vincent Pons) 6. “Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (revised February 2011, with Jonathan Robinson); NBER Working Paper #14693. » Mentioned in The New York Times, The Financial Times
7. “The (Hidden) Costs of Political Instability: Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis” (Revised March 2011, with Jonathan Robinson). 8. “Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Term Adoption of New Health Products: Experimental Evidence from Kenya” (August 2010). NBER Working Paper #16298. Under Revision. » Mentioned in Business Week
SOME PAPERS IN PROGRESS • “Information, Peers, Prices, and Treatment-Seeking Behavior.” (With Jessica Cohen and Simone Schaner.) • “Teacher Management, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and Education Quality” (current draft October 2010, with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer) • “Short-term subsidies, lasting adoption? Habit Formation in Point-of-Use Water Purification in Kenya”, with Vivian Hoffmann, Michael Kremer and Alix Zwane
OLD WORKING PAPERS
• “Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Western Kenya” (2006, with Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer and Samuel Sinei). World Bank Policy Research WP Series 4024.
• “The Impact of Conditional Subsidies on Preventative Health Behaviors: Evidence from Kenya” (2005).
HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS • Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2009, American Economic Review • Rainer Arnhold Fellowship, Mulago Foundation (2005-2007) • Visiting Fellow, New York University (2003-2006) • Doctoral Fellowship, Ministère de la Recherche, France (2003-2006)
• Graduate Student Fellow for MacArthur Network on Inequality and Poverty in Broader Perspective (2003) • Edmond J. Curley Scholarship, Harvard University (2002) • Arthur Sachs Fellowship and Harvard Club of France Scholarship, Harvard University (2000)
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Refereeing American Economic Review; American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; Econometrica; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Economic Journal; Economics of Education Review; The Economics of Transition; Health Policy and Planning; Journal of African Economies; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Quarterly Journal of Economics; The Review of Economics and Statistics; The Review of Economic Studies; World Bank Economic Review; NSF; NIH.
Invited Presentations 2011: UCL/LSE, Bristol, John Hopkins SAIS, USC, AEA meetings (Denver).
2010: New York University, Columbia, RAND, IADB, University of Western Ontario, Claremont-McKenna, World Bank ABCDE, Calvo-Armengol Prize Conference, UCL Household Economics Workshop, 17th BREAD Conference (Montreal), Brown University, IFS (London), Oxford CSAE conference, Paris-I Sorbonne, Pompeu Fabra, Princeton, Harvard/MIT, UC Santa Barbara Human Capital Conference, AEA meetings (Atlanta).
2009: Sciences Po (Paris), Bocconi, UC Irvine, Chicago Booth, Loyola Marymount, Case Western Reserve, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, College de France (Paris), World Bank, PACDEV, RAND, 15th BREAD Conference (Duke), Stanford, Yale, IIES Stockholm, AEA meetings (San Francisco).
2008: UC San Diego, Cornell University, University of Southern California, 14th BREAD Conference (Chicago), World Bank ACT Brown Bag, 5th Midwest Development Conference, NBER Education Meeting, Yale Council on African Studies Speaker Series, Interdisciplinary Symposium on Development and Globalization (Columbia University), 12th BREAD-CIPREE Conference (UQAM), UCLA, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, “Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making” Conference (World Bank).
2007: NEUDC Conference (Harvard University), Infectious Diseases in Poor Countries Conference (Cornell University), World Bank Country Office (Morocco), 3rd London Conference on Laboratory Experiments and the Field, UCL, 4th Minnesota International Economic Development Conference, 2nd Duke Development Workshop, New York University, Stanford, UC Berkeley.
2006: University of Michigan, World Bank Research Group, NEUDC Conference (Cornell University), Columbia University, Duke University, Yale University, Kenya Ministry of Education, Tufts University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, London School of Economics, University of Houston, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dartmouth College, Notre-Dame University, Michigan State University, Inter-American Development Bank.