
Karen Macours
Professor, Paris School of Economics and CEPR Research Affiliate
Karen Macours is a professor at the Paris School of Economics and researcher at INRAE. Her research focuses on social programs, early childhood development, rural poverty, and agriculture in developing countries. She is the chair of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of CGIAR, co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, and co-chair of the JPAL health sector. She previously was associate professor of international economics at SAIS- Johns Hopkins University and received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley
Recent work by Karen Macours
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A cascade model for cost-effective agricultural extension: Evidence from Uganda
Farmer-to-farmer information diffusion is a cost-effective approach for improving practices and profits for smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa
Luc Behaghel Jérémie Gignoux Karen Macours
Published 06.11.20
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Skills and personality matter, but how do we capture them?
Data from developing country settings highlight the risk of misinterpreting non-cognitive skills and personality using existing measures
Articles : Methods & Measurement
Published 06.12.19