ALICE MESNARD
Senior Research Economist
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street
London WC1E 7AE
Telephone
0044 (0) 20 7291 4800
Fax
0044 (0) 20 7323 4780
Email
alice.mesnard@ifs.org.uk
French and Cypriot nationalities.
EDUCATION
1999
1997
1993
Ph.D. in Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
«International migration, savings accumulation and return-migration of
Tunisian workers», Supervisor T.Magnac (Toulouse University).
Diploma of the European Doctoral Program awarded.
M.Phil, London School of Economics.
Diploma «Ingénieur, Statisticien, Economiste» National School of Statistics
and Economics (ENSAE, Paris).
EMPLOYMENT
2009
From 2004
2003
1999
1997
Invited (part time) Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics.
Senior Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
Visiting researcher, IFS and University College of London.
Assistant Professor, Toulouse University. On leave since 2004.
Lecturer, University of Paris 2.
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
A.Mesnard, P.Seabright « Escaping infectious diseases through migration ? Quarantine
measures under incomplete information about infection risk », Journal of Public Economics,
93, 931-938, 2009.
O Attanasio, Fitzsimons E, Gomez A, Lopez D, Meghir C , Mesnard A. “Child Education and
Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural
Colombia”, forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
A Mesnard, M. Ravallion “The wealth effect on new business startups in a developing
economy”, Economica, Vol.73, Issue 291, 2006.
L Dearden. A.Mesnard and J. Shaw “Ethnic differences in child birth outcomes”, Fiscal
Studies, March 2006.
Attanasio O., A.Mesnard «The impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on
consumption in Colombia», Fiscal Studies, vol 27, No 4, 2006.
A.Mesnard “Temporary migration and capital market imperfections”, Oxford Economic
Papers 56, 242-262, 2004.
A.Mesnard «Temporary migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Tunisia», Brussels
Economic Review, vol 47(1), 2004.
J.P.Azam, A.Mesnard “Civil war and the social contract” Public Choice, vol 115 (3), 2003.
A.Mesnard “Intergenerational mobility and temporary migration”, Louvain Economic
Review,vol 67(1), 2001
D.Gaumont, A.Mesnard “Inheritance, land and capital mobility linked to labour migration”,
Journal of Population Economics, vol(14) 2001.
D.Gaumont, A.Mesnard “Altruism and international labour migration”, Journal of
Population Economics, vol (13) 2000.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
« Estimating Ethnic Parity in Jobcentre Plus Programmes: A quantitative analysis using the
Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)» with C.Crawford, L. Dearden, J.Shaw,
B.Sianesi and P.Urwin, Department for Work and Pensions, june 2007.
Attanasio O., C.Castro and A.Mesnard “Displacement, conflict and welfare : an empirical
analysis”, Policy report, Department of National Planning of Colombia,2005.
Attanasio O, Battistin E, Fitzsimons E, Mesnard A, Vera-Hernández M. “How Effective are
Conditional Cash Transfers? Evidence from Colombia”, IFS Briefing Note No.54, January
2005.
«Evaluación del impacto del programa Familias en Acción - subsidos condicionados de la red
de apoyo social: Informe del primer seguimento » with O.Attanasio, E.Battistin,
E.Fitzsimons, C.Meghir, M.Vera-Hernandez et al., March 2006. Department of National
Planning of Colombia.
«Guerre Civile et Contrat Social» in Dynamiques de développement published by
Montchrestien (2003), Paris.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2009-2012
AFD-HEWLETT “Health Risks and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa”
submitted for final approval. Role: Principal Investigator.
2008-2010
ESRC-HEWLETT “Effects of Reproductive Health on Poverty in Sub-Saharan
Africa” Role: co-investigator.
2006-2007
ESRC RES-000-22-1742. School Supply and the Effectiveness of Conditional
Cash Transfers. Role: principal investigator.
2006-2009
ESRC/DFID RES-167-25-0124. Human Capital Accumulation and Poverty
Reduction in Developing Countries. Role: co-investigator.
2003 – 2004 Training Mobility Research to work at UCL / IFS.
1994-1997
Doctoral grant from CREST, Center for Econometrics and Statistics, Paris.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2008 Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics (CRETE), Naxos.
2006 2007 2008: conferences AFD/European Union Development Network, Paris.
2007 Royal Economic Society, Warwick.
2005, 2007, 2008 CEPR conferences on Development Economics, Stockholm and London
2005 Cornell Univ./IFPRI conference on Non Linearities in Development, Washington DC
20004, 2001 European Society for Econometrics (ESEM) and European Economic
Association (EEA), Madrid and Lausanne.
2004 World Bank and Inter -American Bank for Development conference, Bogota.
2003 Markets for Pharmaceuticals and the Health of Developing Nations, Toulouse, IDEI.
2003 NEUDC, Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference, Yale.
2002 Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference, Oxford.
2001 World Bank Conference on the European integration of South-East European, Bari
2000 Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference, Oxford.
2000 Society for Economics Dynamics (SED), San Rose (Costa Rica).
2000 EURESCO conference on Migration in Sapri (Italy)
1998, 2000 European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Amsterdam and Bonn.
1998 Théories des Modèles de la Macroéconomie Appliquée (T2M), Marseille.