I study field offices as screening tools in social assistance programs. Using Canadian
administrative data and a staggered difference-in-difference design, I estimate how office …

Imperfect take-up of public policies has been a growing concern for modern welfare states.
This paper examines the effect on claiming behaviors of two types of interventions, an …

Gaps between benefit receipt and entitlements limit the efficiency and equity of social
programs. We shed light on the role of informational constraints in driving this gap during a …

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of
households, resulting in widespread poverty and food insecurity. To mitigate these effects …

This thesis explores early childcare and activation policies, fundamental within the social
investment paradigm, through two large field experiments in France, supported by the …