Yann ALGAN

Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

Biography

Yann Algan is the Dean of Pre-experience Programs and Professor of Economics at HEC. His main contributions focus on the role of trust and well-being within organizations and societies, with seminal papers showing the causal impact of trust on economic growth, institutions, populism, and management and organizations. He also focuses on the evaluation of public policy with particular attention to the role of education, management, and employment policies. His work incorporates methods from economics, management, social sciences, psychology, and big data. His work has been published in various top 5 (American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political economy), generalist inter-disciplinary reviews (PNAS, Lancet, Organization science…) and, as one of the main specialist of his field, in different handbooks. In 2010 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project “Trust”. In 2015, he received a second ERC grant, a consolidator one, for the project “Sowell” on Social Preferences, Well-Being, and Policy”. He was the former Dean and founder of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po

He is a member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on Well-Being, and is affiliated with CEPR and IZA. His awards include the Best French Young Economist (2009), and his books on trust and French society have been awarded Best French Economics Book and French Essay (2009) and Best French Economics Book, Prix Lycéen (2013). He is one of the main contributor of the international project for a new curriculum in economy (CORE) and senior editor of the review Economic Policy. He is a senior editor of the review Economic Policy, and a member of the Economic Advisory Board for the Prime Minister

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Scientific articles

Public Good Superstars: a Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia

Economic Journal, Forthcoming, (in coll. with J. Hergueux, Y. Benkler, M. Fuster-Morell)

Ethnic bias, economic achievement and trust between large ethnic groups: A study in Germany and the U.S

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2024, vol. 224, pp 996-1021, (in coll. with S. Cetre, G. Grimalda, F. Murtin, D. Pipke, L. Putterman, U. Schmidt, V. Siegerink)

The social and economic impact of the Montreal Longitudinal and Experimental Study

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, April 2023, vol. 33, n° 2, Specia, pp 116-124, (in coll. with A. Vanzella‐Yang, E. Beasley, S. Côté, F. Vitaro, R. E. Tremblay, J. Park)

Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams

Organization Science, November-December 2023, vol. 34, n° 6, pp 2296-2314, (in coll. with J. Hergueux, E. Henry, Y. Benkler)

The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France

Economic Journal, 19 2022, vol. 132, n° 642, pp 437-470, (in coll. with C. Malgouyres, T. Mayer, M. Thoenig)

Elimination versus mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines

The Lancet Global Health, January 2022, vol. 10, n° 1, pp E142-E147, (in coll. with M. Oliu-Barton, B. S. R. Pradelski, M. G. Baker, A. Binagwaho, G. J. Dore, A. El-Mohandes, A. Fontanet, A. Peichl, V. Priesemann, G. B. Wolff, G. Yamey, J. V. Lazarus)

The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Non-economic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data

American Economic Review, August 2022, vol. 112, n° 8, pp 2553-2579, (in coll. with E. BEASLEY, S. M. CÔTÉ, F. VITARO, R. E. TREMBLAY, J. PARK)

Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks to measure socio-emotional skills in students

Scientific Reports, 2022, vol. 12, n° 442, pp 1-11, (in coll. with M. BOON-FALLEUR, A. BOUGUEN, A. CHARPENTIER, E. HUILLERY, C. CHEVALLIER)

Trust in scientists in times of pandemic: Panel evidence from 12 countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America_PNAS, 2021, vol. 118, n° 40, pp e2108576118, (in coll. with D. Cohen, E. Davoine, M. Foucault, S. Stantcheva)

Inattention in boys from low-income backgrounds predicts welfare receipt: a 30-year prospective study

Psychological Medicine, Septembre 2020, vol. 50, n° 12, pp 2001-2009, (in coll. with F. Vergunst, R. E. Tremblay, D. Nagin, Y. Zheng, C. Galera, J. Park, E. Beasley, F. Vitaro, S. M. Côté)

Books

Économie du savoir-être

Eyrolles 2022 (in coll. with E. HUILLERY )

Les français et l'argent - 6 nouvelles questions d'économie contemporaine

Albin Michel 2021 (in coll. with D. COHEN, C. SENIK, L. ARRONDEL, ET AL. )

Les Origines du Populisme

Seuil 2019 (in coll. with E. BEASLEY, D. COHEN, M. FOUCAULT )

L'économie: L'économie pour un monde différent

Eyrolles 2018

Les Français, le Bonheur et l’Argent

Editions rue d'Ulm 2018 (in coll. with E. BEASLEY, C. SENIK )

L’État en Mode Start-Up

Eyrolles 2016 (in coll. with T. CAZENAVE )

Chapters in edited books

Les risques économiques et la solitude, ferments du populisme

Des Économistes Répondent Aux Populistes, Hippolyte d’Albis, Françoise Benhamou, Editions Odile Jacob, 39-47

Le rôle de la confiance dans la société et la politique françaises

La Vie Politique, Piero Ignazi, Dominique Reynié, Presses de Sciences Po, 2 , 166-177

Reconstruire la confiance : un préalable à toute politique publique

Agir Face Aux Dérèglements Du Monde, Le Cercle des économistes, Editions Odile Jacob, 117-121

Trust and social capital

For Good Measure, Stiglitz, J., J. Fitoussi & M. Durand, OECD, 10 , 283-320

Working papers

Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia

Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series , 2024