Guilhem CASSAN 1

Guilhem CASSAN
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Università Commerciale L. Bocconi
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20136 Milano (MI), Italy
+39 02 58 36 51 86
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http://www.pse.ens.fr/junior/cassan/
Date de Naissance:
18 Aout 1982
Nationalité:
Française
Formation:
2007-
Thèse d’économie, Paris School of Economics.
Directrice: Sylvie Lambert.
2010-11
En visite à la Bocconi University, Milan.
AMID Network - Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher.
2006-07
Mres in Economics, London School of Economics.
2005-06
Master Analyse et Politique Economique, Paris School of Economics.
2002-06
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
Thèmes de recherche:
Economie du développement et histoire économique.
Documents de travail:
British law and caste identity manipulation in India: the Punjab Alienation of Land
Act.
Abstract: I analyze the impact of the creation of an ”agricultural tribe” category by
the Punjab Alienation of Land Act of 1901, the membership of which was almost
compulsory in order to buy or sell land. Using original panel data built from the
decennial census of Punjab from 1881 to 1921, I show, using various triple difference
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strategies, that in the districts where the law was enacted, caste groups showed a
tendency to manipulate their caste identity in order to claim an affiliation to castes
and tribes registered as agricultural by the British administration, pointing to both the
role of the British administration in the making of caste as a salient identity in colonial
Punjab, as well as the ability of caste groups to manipulate their identity in response
to economic and institutional incentives.
Travaux en cours:
Evaluating the impact of positive discrimination in India: evidence from a natural
experiment. Joint with Ashwini Natraj.
Indian top incomes 1886-1921. Joint with Facundo Alvaredo.
Elections and attitudes towards minorities. Evidence from Indian Assembly Elections.
Joint with Sonia Balhotra, Imar Clots-Figueras and Sanjay Kumar.
Who dates whom ? Evidence from a French matrimonial agency. Joint with Marion
Leturcq.
Publications non académiques:
Migration ’Push’ Factors in Non-OECD countries over the long term: synthesis report.
(with Anna di Mattia). OECD, 2009.
Introduction à l’économie publique (ouvrage collectif dirigé par Antoine Bozio et Julien
Grenet), La Découverte, Repères, forthcoming.
Conférences et Séminaires:
2010-11
AFSE (Paris).
2009-10
NEUDC Conference (Tufts University), EUDN Scientific Conference (Paris-AFD),
ISI Conference (Delhi), Paris School of Economics, London School of Economics,
Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
2008-09
Paris School of Economics, EDP Jamboree (London School of Economics).
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Enseignement:
2008-09
Histoire de la pensée économique,
Licence 1,
Université Paris Dauphine.
2007-08
Macroéconomie,
Licence 1,
Université Paris Dauphine.
2006-07
Economie Internationale,
Licence 3,
London School of Economics.
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Blog:
Français (langue maternelle), Anglais (courant).
STATA, Lateχ, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
http://www.ecopublix.eu.
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