Pascaline Dupas

Pascaline Dupas is a French economist whose research focuses on development economics and applied microeconomics, with a particular interest in health, education, and savings. She is an associate professor in economics at Stanford University, holds senior fellowships at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a co-chair of the Poverty Action Lab's health sector.^[1] She received the Best Young French Economist Prize in 2015.

Biography

In 1999, Pascaline Dupas earned the equivalent of a B.A. in economic and econometrics from the prestigious grande école École Normale Supérieure in Paris (rue d'Ulm), followed by a M.Sc. in economic analysis and policy in 2000 and a Ph.D. in economics in 2006 from the Paris School of Economics. Throughout her graduate studies, she holds various visiting positions at MIT, Harvard University and New York University. After completing her graduate studies, Dupas becomes an assistant professor in economics at Dartmouth College, which she leaves in 2008 to move to UCLA, followed by a further move to Stanford University in 2011. There, she is promoted to associate professor in 2014.^[2] In addition to her work as researcher and teacher, she also works as an (associate) editor for a variety of academic journals in economics, including the Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Journal of Development Economics.

Research

Pascaline Dupas' research studies the challenges that households and governments in developing countries face in relation to a broad range of issues in health, education and finance. Methodologically, Dupas' research generally relies on the use of field experiments such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Core topics of her work include the prevention of diseases such as Malaria and HIV, the effect of teacher incentives, and the saving behaviour of poor people. Important results of Dupas' research include among else

that the provision of information about the increasing relationship between HIV risk and sexual partner age reduces teen pregnancies (and unprotected sex) more effectively than information focusing on abstinence;^[3]
that the provision of anti-malarial insecticide-treated nets is more effective when distribution is free than if it occurs at a positive price below the market price;^[4]
that group savings and credit schemes as well as simply providing poor people with a safe place to keep money substantially increases health savings;^[5]
that women in developing countries face substantial barriers to saving and investment relative to men and thus benefit strongly from the introduction of free formal saving services such as non-interest-bearing bank accounts;^[6]
that education subsidies are effective in reducing adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI), whereas an abstinence-focused curriculum doesn't affect teen pregnancy or STIs.^[7]

Geographically, most of Dupas' work focuses on (western) Kenya, which - along with other factors - has raised questions as to what degree her findings can be translated to other contexts.^[8] Under IDEAS/RePEc, Pascaline Dupas ranks among the top 4% of economists registered on the platform (June 2017).^[9]

Selected awards and honours

Best Young French Economist Prize - 2015
National Science Foundation CAREER Grant - 2013-2018
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship - 2012-2014

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