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PhD Candidates

Aurélien Boyer

Discipline(s): Economics

Laudine Carbuccia

Research Interest(s): Education ; Early childhood care ; Childcare centers ; Inequalities in childcare arrangements ; Public policies for early childhood

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

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) 

Rachida Larinouna

Discipline(s): Economics

Research Group(s): Evaluation of Democracy

Pierre Livet

Discipline(s): Economics

Arno Lizet

Research Interest(s): Sociology of public action, sociology of work, intermediation, localised social spaces, rural worlds, ordinary relationship with politics.

Discipline(s): Political Science

Research Group(s): Discriminations and Category-Based Policies, Evaluation of Democracy

Pauline Madies

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

"Gender Segregation in the Labour Market", supervised by Ghazala Azmat, Jose de Sousa (Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)

Vinícius Martinez

Research Group(s): Socio-fiscal Policies

Julie Pereira

Discipline(s): Sociology

Research Group(s): Educational Policies

Thesis topic:

Evaluating arts education policies: cultural redistribution and school remediation
Supervisor: Philippe Coulangeon (CNRS, Sciences Po - CRIS)

Doctoral Defense, April 1st, 2025, at Sciences Po.

My doctoral research relies on the impact evaluation of the project “Un violon dans mon école”, which teaches violin to disadvantaged pupils aged 4 to 8 years old, in more than 40 schools. This program is funded by a philanthropic organization called the Vareille foundation.
In this context, I implemented a counterfactual quasi-experimental approach, comparing the children participating in the program to a control group with similar characteristics. I conducted cognitive, non-cognitive and musical tests ex-ante, and also used national data to carry on the longitudinal analysis of the programme’s effects.  Using entropy balancing, test and control groups are rendered more similar by equalising the distribution of the initial cognitive and non-cognitive skills; as well as sociodemographic characteristics. 
To complement this mainly quantitative approach, I also conducted interviews with various stakeholders (schoolteachers, violin teachers, parents, philanthropists) and ethnographic observation in some chosen schools.

Sarah Thompson

Research Group(s): Environmental Policies

Research programme manager for the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition at Sciences Po and Political Science PhD student at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Olivia Tsoutsoplidi

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

"Essays in Historical Political Economy", supervised by Julia Cagé, with thesis committee members Benjamin Marx, Emeric Henry