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...

Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether patent citations are a good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a...

[eng] We analyze geographic inequality of access to employment at a highly detailed geographic level—the municipality—across all of metropolitan France (mainland + Corsica), for two population groups: unemployed persons registered at the National Employment Agency (ANPE) and recipients of...