Elise Huillery
Biographic Data
| ID | 921322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elise Huillery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elise |
| FAMILY NAME | Huillery |
| SIGNATURE | HUILLERY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9931-4610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830–1962
How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers from French taxpayers and private investors, or were they, on the contrary, drained of their capital? This paper uses novel budgetary, private investment, and loan data to compute monetary flows between France and the colonies between 1833 and 1962. Public expenditure spent by France on the empire represented only 1.3 percent of its GDP, of which four-fifth…
The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools
This article shows that a four-year mindset intervention in disadvantaged middle schools led to a 0.05-standard-deviation increase in grade point average, associated with more optimistic beliefs, more self-criticism and improved school behaviour. Treatment effects were larger in terms of both grade point average and National Exam results for students with relatively better social, academic and discipline profiles. According to international empir…
Interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
Schoolgirls Not Brides: Secondary Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage
This paper examines whether eliminating financial and logistical barriers to secondary education can reduce child marriage. Using a randomized controlled trial including 285 localities in Niger, which ranks last in gender development indices, we show that offering a scholarship upon admission to middle school halves both school dropout and child marriage. It also raises girls’ aspirations for themselves as well as mothers’ aspirations for their d…
The power of personalised feedback: Evidence from an indoor air quality experiment
Indoor air pollution is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but its sources and impacts are largely misunderstood by the public. In a randomised controlled trial including 281 households in France, we test two interventions aimed at changing indoor polluting behaviour by raising households’ awareness of health risks associated with indoor air pollution. While both generic and personalised information increased knowledg…
The cultural evolution of love in literary history
Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers
Socially disadvantaged students are less likely to aspire to the top educational pathways than their advantaged classmates who have the same test scores. We identify two behavioural biases that explain most of this gap: socially disadvantaged students are less aware of the top educational pathways and underestimate their academic ability relative to their advantaged peers. We also find that lower educational aspirations at a point in time are ass…
Measuring socio-emotional skills in schools: Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks
Recent empirical research has shown that improving socio-emotional skills such as grit, conscientiousness and self-control leads to higher academic achievement and better life outcomes. However, both theoretical and empirical works have raised concerns about the reliability of the different methods used to measure socio-emotional skills. We compared the reliability and validity of the three leading measurements methods - a student-reported questi…
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods
Preventing Poverty Through Employment, Education and Mobility
The Black Man's Burden: The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa
Was colonization costly for France? Did French taxpayers contribute to colonies' development? This article reveals that French West Africa's colonization took only 0.29 percent of French annual expenditures, including 0.24 percent for military and central administration and 0.05 percent for French West Africa's development. For West Africans, the contribution from French taxpayers was almost negligible: mainland France provided about 2 percent of…
History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa
To what extent do colonial public investments continue to influence current regional inequalities in French-speaking West Africa? Using a new database and the spatial discontinuities of colonial investment policy, this paper gives evidence that early colonial investments had large and persistent effects on current outcomes. The nature of investments also matters. Current educational outcomes have been more specifically determined by colonial inve…
Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers
Socially disadvantaged students are less likely to aspire to the top educational pathways than their advantaged classmates who have the same test scores. We identify two behavioural biases that explain most of this gap: socially disadvantaged students are less aware of the top educational pathways and underestimate their academic ability relative to their advantaged peers. We also find that lower educational aspirations at a point in time are ass…
The Black Man's Burden: The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa
Was colonization costly for France? Did French taxpayers contribute to colonies' development? This article reveals that French West Africa's colonization took only 0.29 percent of French annual expenditures, including 0.24 percent for military and central administration and 0.05 percent for French West Africa's development. For West Africans, the contribution from French taxpayers was almost negligible: mainland France provided about 2 percent of…
The cultural evolution of love in literary history
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods
The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools
This article shows that a four-year mindset intervention in disadvantaged middle schools led to a 0.05-standard-deviation increase in grade point average, associated with more optimistic beliefs, more self-criticism and improved school behaviour. Treatment effects were larger in terms of both grade point average and National Exam results for students with relatively better social, academic and discipline profiles. According to international empir…
The power of personalised feedback: Evidence from an indoor air quality experiment
Indoor air pollution is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but its sources and impacts are largely misunderstood by the public. In a randomised controlled trial including 281 households in France, we test two interventions aimed at changing indoor polluting behaviour by raising households’ awareness of health risks associated with indoor air pollution. While both generic and personalised information increased knowledg…
History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa
To what extent do colonial public investments continue to influence current regional inequalities in French-speaking West Africa? Using a new database and the spatial discontinuities of colonial investment policy, this paper gives evidence that early colonial investments had large and persistent effects on current outcomes. The nature of investments also matters. Current educational outcomes have been more specifically determined by colonial inve…
The Black Man's Burden: The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa
Was colonization costly for France? Did French taxpayers contribute to colonies' development? This article reveals that French West Africa's colonization took only 0.29 percent of French annual expenditures, including 0.24 percent for military and central administration and 0.05 percent for French West Africa's development. For West Africans, the contribution from French taxpayers was almost negligible: mainland France provided about 2 percent of…
Preventing Poverty Through Employment, Education and Mobility
Measuring socio-emotional skills in schools: Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks
Recent empirical research has shown that improving socio-emotional skills such as grit, conscientiousness and self-control leads to higher academic achievement and better life outcomes. However, both theoretical and empirical works have raised concerns about the reliability of the different methods used to measure socio-emotional skills. We compared the reliability and validity of the three leading measurements methods - a student-reported questi…
Sex, lies, and measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods
Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers
Socially disadvantaged students are less likely to aspire to the top educational pathways than their advantaged classmates who have the same test scores. We identify two behavioural biases that explain most of this gap: socially disadvantaged students are less aware of the top educational pathways and underestimate their academic ability relative to their advantaged peers. We also find that lower educational aspirations at a point in time are ass…
The cultural evolution of love in literary history
Schoolgirls Not Brides: Secondary Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage
This paper examines whether eliminating financial and logistical barriers to secondary education can reduce child marriage. Using a randomized controlled trial including 285 localities in Niger, which ranks last in gender development indices, we show that offering a scholarship upon admission to middle school halves both school dropout and child marriage. It also raises girls’ aspirations for themselves as well as mothers’ aspirations for their d…
The power of personalised feedback: Evidence from an indoor air quality experiment
Indoor air pollution is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but its sources and impacts are largely misunderstood by the public. In a randomised controlled trial including 281 households in France, we test two interventions aimed at changing indoor polluting behaviour by raising households’ awareness of health risks associated with indoor air pollution. While both generic and personalised information increased knowledg…
The Role of Mindset in Education: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Disadvantaged Schools
This article shows that a four-year mindset intervention in disadvantaged middle schools led to a 0.05-standard-deviation increase in grade point average, associated with more optimistic beliefs, more self-criticism and improved school behaviour. Treatment effects were larger in terms of both grade point average and National Exam results for students with relatively better social, academic and discipline profiles. According to international empir…
Interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy among adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830–1962
How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers from French taxpayers and private investors, or were they, on the contrary, drained of their capital? This paper uses novel budgetary, private investment, and loan data to compute monetary flows between France and the colonies between 1833 and 1962. Public expenditure spent by France on the empire represented only 1.3 percent of its GDP, of which four-fifth…
Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)