Using data from a randomized social experiment conducted in French Univesité du Maine in 2010-2012, we investigate how to mitigate the negative impact of student work on academic achievement. The experimented program consisted in proposing the students, willing to work, an access to a large set...

This study measures and compares the access to a job interview provided by two vocational degrees, ceteris paribus: a Certificat d?Aptitude Professionnelle (CAP), below A-level, and a vocational baccalauréat (A-level). The evaluation is performed on experimental data collected for plumbers and...

This study assesses the effect of volunteering during university studies on job access in the Paris region for young qualified job applicants. The study was performed on experimental data using correspondence testing : between April and July 2010, we sent 7,553 applications in response to 581...

The main interest of impact evaluations with experimental methods lies in their ability to measure precisely the effect of a social program when there is no preexisting data and when the theoretical framework is still the subject of many debates. These methods also allow for controlling both...

The articles published here were all presented at the international conference on the measurement of discriminations held at the University of Evry Val d'Essonne on 13 and 14 December 2007, under the auspices of the TEPP research federation (FR n° 3126 of the CNRS). Over these two days, about...