Friday Seminar with Justine Knebelmann (Sciences Po) & Constance Frohly (ScPo PhD)

Justine Knebelmann is Assistant Professor at the Department which she joined last year. Prior to joining Sciences Po, she was a 3-year Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Lab (J-PAL). She is an Invited Researcher at J-PAL today and an Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Her research is mostly centred on state capacity in developing countries. She notably works on tax policies and land issues and has been working with tax administrations in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2015 (read article in Le Monde, August 9th 2025). In July 2025, the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) announced that it was awarding her a grant in the framework of its young researcher programme for her project State Capacity and Digitization in Africa (AFREGOV).

Justine Knebelmann's website

She will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Scaling Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Senegal's Capital City (abstract forthcoming)

Constance Frohly is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Determinants, Mechanisms, and Consequences of Households' School Choices: Evidence from French Households Decisions in Secondary Education, under the supervision of Pierre Cahuc and Emeric Henry. She is the recipient of a 2026 Fox International Fellowship which will take her to Yale University next year.

She will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Private School Entry and Spillovers on Public Schools' Social Composition and Academic Performance (abstract forthcoming)

This is our final Friday Seminar of the year - we look forward to seeing you again in the Fall !