Carlo Barone

contact : carlo.barone(at)sciencespo.fr
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Carlo Barone est directeur du CRIS depuis le 1er septembre 2024 et membre du LIEPP, axe  « Politiques éducatives ».
Il est également membre du Conseil scientifique de l'éducation et correspondant scientifique du programme IDEE (Innovations, Données et Expérimentations en Éducation).

PUBLICATIONS - RESEAUX SOCIAUX

Thèmes de recherche - Research Interests

- Social inequalities in education: the role of family background, gender and ethnicity.
- Labor market returns to education and the role of education for social mobility in dynamic and comparative perspective
- Experiments in educational research, educational policies and policy impact evaluation
- The validation of educational and occupational classifications for comparative social stratification research
- Sociological theory: rational choice and behavioral approaches

Dernières publications - Latest Publication

ARTICLES - PAPERS

• 2024 (with Mélanie Maximino-Pinhero, Iris Menu, Esther Boissin, Lys-Andréa Brunet & Grégoire Borst), "Metacognition as a mediator of the relation between family SES and language and mathematical abilities in preschoolers", Scientific Reports, 14, n° 10392, Published online May 6th. [Open Access]
• 2024 (with Denis Fougère & Karine Martel), "Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial", Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Published online January 3rd.
• 2023 (with Anton B. Andersson, Martin Hällsten), "Are upper-secondary track decisions risky? Evidence from Sweden on the assumptions of risk-aversion models", Rationality and Society, vol.53, n° 3, p. 311-337. [Open Access]
• 2023 (with S. Schindler et al.), "Educational tracking and social inequalities in long-term labor market outcomes: Six countries in comparison", International Journal of Comparative Sociology, First Published February 10th. [Open Access]
• 2022 (with Oscar Smallenbroek & Florian Hertel), "Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries", Sociological Methods & Research, online first, November, 11.
• 2022 (with G. Ballarino, A. Filippin, G. Abbiati, G. Argentin and A. Schizzerotto), "The effects of an information campaign beyond university enrolment: A large-scale field experiment on the choices of high school students", Economics of Education Review, vol. 91, 102308.
• 2022 (avec Estelle Herbaut et Louis-André Vallet), « Filières du baccalauréat et emploi à la fin des études : contribution des parcours scolaires et analyse des écarts entre femmes et hommes », Économie et Statistique, n° 530-31, p 65-86. Article disponible en ligne (FR) - Also available in English
• 2022 (with Florian R. Hertel and Oscar Smallenbroek), "The rise of income and the demise of class and social status? A systematic review of measures of socio-economic position in stratification research", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 78, April 2022, art. n° 100678.
• 2021 (with Moris Triventi and Marta Facchini), "Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 76, art. n°  100626, December.
• 2021 (with Clément Pin), « L'apport des méthodes mixtes à l’évaluation : une expérimentation randomisée dans le champ des politiques éducatives », Revue française de sciences politiques, vol.71, n° 2021/3, p. 391-412.
• 2021 (with Giovanni Abbiati, Giulia Assirelli, Davide Azzolini), "L’università conviene? Un’analisi dei rischi dell’investimento in istruzione universitaria nel sistema del 3+2", The Lab's Quartely, vol. 23, n° 3, p. 207-245.
• 2021 (with Moris Triventi),  "Is vocational education a safety net? The occupational attainment of upper secondary graduates from vocational and academic tracks in Italy", Quaderni di sociologia, 84-LXIV, p. 55-89. [Open Access]
• 2021 (with Estelle Herbaut, Mathieu Ichou and Louis-André Vallet), "Social origins, track choices and labour-market outcomes: evidence from the French case", Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, vol. 12, n° 3, p. 345-388.
• 2021 (with Marta Facchini and Moris Triventi), "Social origins, tracking and occupational attainment in Italy", Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, vol. 12, n° 3.
• 2021 (with Estelle Herbaut), "Explaining gender segregation in higher education: longitudinal evidence on the French case", British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 42, n° 2, p. 260-286.
• 2021 (with Katherin Barg & Mathieu Ichou), "Relative risk aversion models: How plausible are their assumptions?", Rationality & Society, vol. 33, n° 2.
• 2021 (with Denis Fougère, Clément Pin), "Social Origins, Shared Book Reading, and Language Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from an Information Experiment", European sociological review, vol. 37, n° 1, p.18-31.
• 2020 (with Emilio Chambuleyron, Reka Vonnak & Guilia Assirelli), "Home-based shared book reading interventions and children’s language skills: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials", Educational Research and Evaluation, vol. 25, n° 5-6, 2019, p. 270-298.
• 2020 (with Giulia Assirelli), "Gender segregation in higher education: an empirical test and seven explanations", Higher Education, vol. 79, n° 1, p. 55-78, first online 3 september 2019.
• 2019, "Cambiare, a piccoli passi, l’università italiana. Per salvarla", Quaderni di Sociologia, n° 79, p. 159-164.
• 2019, "Towards an Education-based Meritocracy?: Why Modernisation and Social Reproduction theories cannot explain trends in educational inequalities: outline of an alternative explanation", ISA eSymposium, vol. 9, n° 1, march.
• 2019 (with Giulia Assirelli and Ettore Recchi), “'You Better Move On'. Determinants and Labor Market Outcomes of Graduate Migration from Italy”, International Migration Review, vol. 53, n° 1, p. 4-25, first published 5 April 2018.
• 2019 (with Antonio Schizzerotto, Giulia Assirelli & Giovanni Abbiati), "Nudging gender desegregation: a field experiment on the causal effect of information barriers on gender inequalities in higher education", European Societies, vol. 21, n° 3, p. 356-377, first published 4 march 2018.
• 2019 (avec Marco Oberti, coord.), « Les jardins d'enfants de la ville de Paris », rapport de recherche, Paris habitat / Ville de Paris - OSC, décembre, 156 p. Document téléchargeable sur SPIRE-HAL
• 2018 (with Moris Triventi and Giulia Assirelli), "Explaining Social Inequalities in Access to University: A Test of Rational Choice Mechanisms in Italy", European Sociological Review, vol. 34, n° 5, p. 554-569.
• 2018 (with Lucia Ruggera), "Educational equalization stalled? Trends in inequality of educational opportunity between 1930 and 1980 across 26 European nations", European Societies, vol. 20, n° 1, p. 1-25, published online 31 March 2017.
• 2018 (with Giovanni Abbiati, Gianluca Argentin and Antonio Schizzerotto), "Information barriers and social stratification in higher education: evidence from a field experiment", The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 69, n° 4, p. 1248-1270, first published, 29 november 2017.
• 2018 (with Giulia Assirelli, Giovanni Abbiati, Gianluca Argentin, Deborah De Luca), "Social origins, relative risk aversion and track choice", Acta Sociologica, vol. 61, n° 4, p. 441-459, first published 8 October 2017.
• 2017 (with Gianluca Argentin and Gianna Barbieri), "Origini sociali, consiglio orientativo e iscrizione al liceo: un'analisi basata sui dati dell'Anagrafe Studenti", Politiche Sociali, n° 1/2017, p. 53-74.
• 2017, « École et mobilité sociale : un rapport ambigu », Diversité, n° 187, p. 70-75.
• 2017 (with Lucia Ruggera), "Social closure, micro-class immobility and the intergenerational reproduction of the upper class: a comparative study", British Journal of Sociology, vol. 68, n° 2, p. 194-214.
• 2017 (with Antonio Schizzerotto, Giovanni Abbiati and Gianluca Argentin), "Information Barriers, Social Inequality, and Plans for Higher Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment", European Sociological Review, vol. 33, n° 1, p. 84-96.
• 2017 (with Giovanni Abbiati), "Is university education worth the investment? The expectations of upper secondary school seniors and the role of family background", Rationality and Society, vol. 29, n° 2, p. 113-159, early view, 15 december 2016.
• 2016 (with Gianluca Argentin), "School Reform. Innovation and the Rhetorix of Change",  Italian Politics. vol. 31, Berghahn, p. 135-154.
• 2016 (with Moris Triventi, Nazareno Panichella, Fabrizio Bernardi, Gabriele Ballarino) "Education as a positional good. Implications for social inequalities in educational attainment in Italy", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 43, p. 39-52, available online 18 April 2015.
  

CHAPITRES D'OUVRAGES - CHAPTERS

• 2024, (with Estelle Herbaut), "Decision-Making mecanisms, information and educational inequalities", In: Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan, Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, Edward-Elgar, p. 387-399.
• 2021, "Analytical sociology and social stratification research", In: Gianluca Manzo (ed.), Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, Edward Elgar, p. 119-134 (chapter 5).
• 2020, "Cambios a lo largo del tiempo de las desigualdades socioeconómicas en el logro educativo: los problemas de las Teorías de la modernización y de la reproducción social y una hipótesis alternativa", In: Olga Salido y Sandra Fachelli (ed.), Perspectivas y fronteras en el estudio de la desigualdad social: movilidad social y clases sociales en tiempos de cambio, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, col. Academia, n° 47, p. 55-70.
• 2020, "Cultural Capital in Schools", In: George Ritzer & Chris Rojek (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. 
• 2020 (with Raffaele Guetto), "Education and Social Fluidity in Contemporary Italy: An Analysis of Cohort Trends", In: Richard Breen and Walter Müller (ed.), Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States, Standford University Press, p. 196-223.
• 2016 (with Gabriele Ballarino and Nazareno Panichella), "Social background and education in occupational attainment in Italy" In: Fabrizio Bernardi and Gabriele Ballarino (ed.), Education, Occupation and Social Origin: A comparative Analysis of the Transmission of Socio-Economic Inequalities, p. 82-93.

WORKING PAPERS - POLICY BRIEFS - REPORTS

• 2021 (with Claudia Traini et al.), Educational tracking and long-term outcomes by social origin: Seven countries in comparison, Dial Working Paper Series (Dynammics of Inequality Across the Lifecourse: structures and process), 02/2021.
  
• 2020 (with Denis Fougère and Karine Martel), "Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities, and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial", IZA Discussion Papers Series, n° 13458, 28 p.
  
• 2020 (avec Laudine Carbuccia, Grégoire Borst, Angela Greulich, Lidia Panico et Maxime Tô), Revue de littérature sur les politiques d'acccompagnement au développement des capacités des jeunes enfants, Rapport du LIEPP pour la Caisse Nationale d'Allocations Familiales, Sciences Po - LIEPP, juillet, 192 p.
• 2020 (with E. Ferragina (coord.), E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, E. Recchi, M. Safi, N. Sauger, J. Schradie), "In the eye of the hurricane. French society a month into the lockdown", Coping with Covid-19, Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy brief n° 2, 4 May.
  [French version] « Dans l'oeil du cyclone. La société française après un mois de confinement », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 2, 4 mai.
• 2019 (with Katherin Barg and Mathieu Ichou), "Relative risk aversion models: How plausible are their assumptions?", OSC Papers, n° 2019-3, December 2019, 22 p.
• 2019 (with Estelle Herbaut, Mathieu Ichou, Louis-André Vallet), “Tracking and Sorting in the French Educational System”, DIAL Working Papers, n° 13, 31 p. 
• 2019 (with Emilia Chambouleyron, Reka Vonnak and Giulia Assirelli), "Shared Book Reading Interventions and Children's Skills", LIEPP Working Paper, n° 98, December, 29 p. 
• 2019 (avec Denis Fougère & Clément Pin), « La lecture partagée : un levier pour réduire les inégalités scolaires ? L’évaluation par expérimentation aléatoire d’un dispositif dans des écoles maternelles », LIEPP Policy Brief, n° 44, septembre, 6p.  
• 2019 (with Denis Fougère & Clément Pin), "Social origins, shared book reading and language skills in early childhood: evidence from an information experiment", Discussion Paper Series, n° 14006, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), September, 40 p.
• 2017 (with Antonio Schizzerotto, Giovanni Maria Abbiati and Giulia Assirelli), "Gender, information barriers and fields of study choice: a field experiment", LIEPP Working Paper, n° 63, janvier. 
• 2015 (with Gabriele Ballarino and Nazareno Panichella) "Social background and education in occupational attainment in 20^th century Italy", SPS Working Papers, 2014/03, European University Institute. 

Projets de recherche en cours

• Unequal access to early childcare: a longtitudinal, experimental study (2021-2024)
• PIECE - Parenting and In Parenting and Inequalities in Early Child development: Experimental evidence (LIEPP - 2023-2025)
• PPP - Premiers Pas.  Fostering Access to Childcare in France (LIEPP 2022-2024)
• IDEE - Innovations, Données et Expérimentations en Éducation (LIEPP - ANR, 2021-2029)

Directions de thèses - PhD Students

• Laudine Carbuccia, The cognitive and structural determinants of the early childcare enrolment gap according to socioeconomic background (provisional)
• Camille Voisin, La réforme des groupes de besoins au collège : quels impacts sur les performances, les inégalités scolaires et les compétences socio-émotionnelles des élèves ?

Comités de rédaction - Editorial Boards

Editor of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Regular reviewer for European Sociological Review, Sociology of Education, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia.