Patrick Premand

Senior Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Group, World Bank

Patrick Premand is a Senior Economist at the World Bank Development Impact Evaluation Department (DIME), where he leads the social protection & jobs research program. He studies the effectiveness of social, employment and human development policies by embedding experiments in large-scale interventions in close collaboration with practitioners. Besides research, he has led operations, policy dialogue, and technical assistance activities the World Bank. He holds a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University.

Recent work by Patrick Premand

Can psychosocial interventions make anti-poverty programmes more cost-effective? Evidence from Niger

A community-level film event and group-based life skills training can improve the cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes

Labour Markets

Thomas Bossuroy Patrick Premand Catherine Thomas

Published 16.02.23
Does workfare work? Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire

Programmes need to be better targeted and designed to maximise the social externalities they create for them to be cost-effective

Labour Markets

Marianne Bertrand Bruno Crépon Alicia Marguerie Patrick Premand

Published 20.04.22

Patrick Premand

Recent work by Patrick Premand

Can psychosocial interventions make anti-poverty programmes more cost-effective? Evidence from Niger

Does workfare work? Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire