Sylvain Chassang
Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Sylvain Chassang is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests are in game theory, industrial organization, and development. Chassang is a former member of the French Council of Economic Analysis, and a former co-editor at the American Economic Review. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a previous winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Chassang received his PhD from MIT. Recent work includes Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed (with D. Agness, T. Baseler, P. Dupas, and E. Snowberg, Review of Economic Studies, 2025) and Using Divide and Conquer to Improve Tax Collection (with L. Del Carpio and S. Kapon, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024). In ongoing research, he has been studying the impact of the used car market on the design of policies seeking to reduce GHG emissions from transport.
Recent work by Sylvain Chassang
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How to value the time of the self-employed
Valuing the time of the self-employed is crucial for evaluating interventions and conducting cost-benefit analysis. Yet research often misprices this value at zero or equal to market wages. New evidence from Kenya suggests a practical fix: value unpa...
Published 14.10.25
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Providing plausible deniability empowers workers to report harassment
A novel survey method provides plausible deniability to workers reporting harassment in organisations and increased reported levels of threatening behaviour, physical harassment, and sexual harassment at a large Bangladeshi apparel producer
Published 28.11.23