Pauline Rossi

Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST

Pauline Rossi is a Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Previously, she was an Assistant then Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. She visited the Economic Growth Center at Yale University in the autumn of 2019 and the California Center for Population Research at UCLA in the autumn of 2023. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics.

Her fields of research are Development Economics and Family Economics

Recent work by Pauline Rossi

Free contraception had no impact on birth rates in Burkina Faso

Providing free access to all modern contraceptive products for three years in local public health centres in rural Burkina Faso had no detectable effect on birth rates, suggesting that fertility levels are in line with how many children families want to have.

Health

Pascaline Dupas Seema Jayachandran Adriana Lleras-Muney Pauline Rossi

Published 24.07.24

How old-age pensions impact fertility choices: Evidence from Namibia

The extension of social pensions in Namibia in the 1990s led to a rapid, substantial decline in fertility

Public Economics

Pauline Rossi

Published 20.02.23

Pauline Rossi

Recent work by Pauline Rossi

Free contraception had no impact on birth rates in Burkina Faso

How old-age pensions impact fertility choices: Evidence from Namibia