Laudine Carbuccia

After 8 months as a research assistant at the LIEPP during her gap year, Laudine resumes her Master 2 in Cognitive Sciences at ENS (PSL) in 2020-2021. The same year, she obtains a doctoral contract at the Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (Sciences Po). Since her undergraduate studies, she has been passionate about transdisciplinarity and is currently working on a thesis between Sociology and Cognitive Sciences under the supervision of Carlo Barone (CRIS, Sciences Po) and Coralie Chevallier (LNCC, ENS). Her research focuses on inequalities in access to daycare centers, their link with public policies and their impact on the cognitive development of young children. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Research poster “Déterminants des inégalités d'accès aux crèches : un essai randomisé contrôlé à la méthodologie mixte” - June 2023

The cognitive and structural determinants of the early childcare enrolment gap according to socioeconomic background  (provisional title)
Thesis supervisor: Carlo Barone (Sciences Po - CRIS and LIEPP) and Coralie Chevallier (LNCC, ENS)
Funding: Sciences Po doctoral contract (2021-2024) 

While the use of ECEC is a very effective lever for reducing developmental inequalities in early childhood, these facilities are themselves marked by strong inequalities in access. Understanding the reason of these inequalities in access is therefore crucial. Affordability and accessibility barriers (e.g., shortage of places, access criteria) are known to hinder participation of underprivileged families to ECEC. However, we have shown in a previous systematic review and meta-analysis that information barriers (e.g., underprivileged parents overestimate the costs of these facilities) could also contribute to these access inequalities. The goal of my dissertation is to investigate these information barriers to ECEC for underprivileged parents through a Randomised Controlled Trial design in the French context, and to compare them with accessibility and accessibility barriers.

• 2022, "Poverty and decision making : A cognitive approach", Cognitive approaches to political behaviour course, Sciences Po.
• 2022, "Poverty and inequalities : the case of early childcare access", Behavioral insights and political behaviour course, Sciences Po.

Granted in 2022 by the Mustela Fundation (Bourse de Recherche pour l'Enfance de la Fondation Mustela).

• 2024, Demand-side determinants of the socioeconomic gap in ECEC enrollment in France, Report, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Pubic Policies (LIEPP) and the Caisse Nationale des Allocations Famiiales, May, 90p. Downloadable via Hal Sciences Po
• 2023 (with Valentin Thouzeau, Carlo Barone et Coralie Chevallier),  "Unequal access to early childcare: What role do demand-side factors play? A PRISMA systematic review", LIEPP Working Paper, n° 138, January. Open Access publication
• 2022 (avec Carlo Barone), « Les politiques d’accompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants », L'essentiel, n° 206, Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales, col. Etudes et recherche. Visible et téléchargeable en ligne
• 2020, "Interventions to foster academic aspirations adjustment among disadvantaged and female students - A PRISMA systematic review of literature", LIEPP Working Papers, n° 114, November. Open Access publication
• 2020 (avec Carlo Barone, Grégoire Borst, Angela Greulich, Lidia Panico et Maxime Tô), Revue de littérature sur les politiques d'accompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants, Rapport du LIEPP, juillet, 192 p.

Presentations

• 2024, "Learning Together for Children’s Learning: An Interdisciplinary Convening", J-PAL seminar, June 19th [Website] and July 3rd, Family Dynamics and Social Inequality Workshop, Hertie School, Berlin.
• 2024, "Structural and cognitive determinants of the socioeconomic gap in early childcare enrollment", Workshop LIEPP/PRESAGE, Who takes care? Early childcare, inequalities and women's professional careers, Sciences Po, June 12th. Website
• 2022, « Déterminants des inégalités d’accès aux crèches : un essai randomisé contrôlé à la méthodologie mixte », Séminaire d'intégration du LIEPP, 21 juin.
• 2021, "Unequal Access To Early Childcare: A Longitudinal, Experimental Study", 5th annual workshop: "Experiments in education and labor market research", WZB Berlin, 1st October. 
• 2020, « Une revue de littérature sur les politiques d'accompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants », LIEPP, Workshop Revues de littérature, 10 novembre.