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Arnaud Chevalier


Arnaud Chevalier


March 2009

Department of Economics
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, TW20 0EX





Tel: +44(0)1784414971
England







arnaud.chevalier@rhul.ac.uk

Born: 14/12/1970, Le Mans (France)




Nationality: French


Current positions:

Sept. 2006
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of
London
September 2003 Research Associate, Geary Institute, University College Dublin
June 2002
Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Jan. 2002
Research Associate, Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of
Economics

Previous positions:

Jan – Dec 2008 Senior Researcher in Higher Education Analysis, Department for Innovation,
Universities and Skills, London
2004/.2006.
Department of Economics, University of Kent: Lecturer (2004/05), Senior
Lecturer (2005/06)
2003/ 2004
Department of Economics, University College Dublin: Lecturer
2002/ 2003
Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College Dublin: Research
Fellow
2000/ 2001
Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics:
Research Officer
1998/ 2000
Department of Economics, Keele University: Research Officer
1996/ 1997
School of Education, University of Birmingham: Research Assistant
1995/ 1998
Department of Economics, University of Birmingham: Teaching Assistant,

Visiting positions & invited lectures:

April 09
Université de Rouen Visiting Lecturer, Personnel Economics
Oct/Nov 05-07
Université de Rouen Visiting Lecturer, Labour Economics
June 2007
University College London, Msc Stata support
April 2007
University College Dublin, PhD stata programming course
September 2006 Institute of Education, University of London, Stata Programming
June 2006
London School of Economics, PhD stata Programming course
December 2005 National Centre for Research Methods, Bristol, Policy Evaluation
July 2005
European Science Foundation, Summer School, Dublin, Econometrics
May 2001
Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics, Helsinki, Invited lecture
2000/2001
Temporary lecturer, Institute of Education, London, Over-education



Education:

1995 / 2000
Ph.D., University of Birmingham
1993 / 1994
M. Soc. Sc. “Money, Banking and Finance”, University of Birmingham
1991/ 1994
Magistère “Economics and International Finance”, Université Bordeaux I
1989/ 1991
First degree “Mathematics Applied to Economics”, Université d’Angers

Teaching activity in the last 5 years:

Undergraduate: Economic Policy, Dissertation, Labour Economics, Econometrics, Statistics,
Economics of Education
Postgraduate: Applied Econometrics, Stata programming
PhD Supervision: Kehai Wei (2006- to date), Stijn Broecke (2008 – to date)

Research grants and awards:

2008
ESRC placement scheme – host institution



£ 11,000
2007
ESRC – DIUS Placement scheme




£ 45,000
2005
British Academy (with Y. Zhu)




£ 7,000
2004
Joint seminar University College Dublin - Queens University Belfast (with K.
Denny, C. Harmon and G. Lanot) IRCHSS



€ 6,000
2004
“Birth order and educational achievement” IRCHSS

€ 6,000
2003
“Childcare and female labour force participation” IRCHSS
€ 20,570
2003
“Childcare in Ireland” Foundation for Fiscal Studies

€ 5,000
2002
“Parental education and children’s choice” Nuffield Foundation
£ 4,780
2002/03
“Marie Curie Fellowship in Applied Econometrics”

Publications:

* Refereed publications

2009 “Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates” (with J. Lindley) Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society, Series A, 172, 307-337
2008 "Assessment and Age 16+ participation" (with S. Gibbons) Research Papers in
Education, 23 (2) 113-123
2007 “Gender Wage Differential among UK Graduates”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, 69, 819-842
2007
“Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation
Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s” (with P. Dolton and S. McIntosh), Economica, 74,
69-96
2006
“The Microeconomics of Early Child Investment” (with C. Finn, C. Harmon and J.
Heckman), Journal of Children’s Services, 1, 2, 18-30
2005
“Entrepreneurial Orientation, Technology Transfer, and Spin-off Performance of U.S.
Universities” (with P. Allen and R. O'Shea), Research Policy, 34, 994-1008
2004
“Does Education Raise Productivity, or Just Reflects It?” (with C. Harmon, I. Walker
and Y. Zhu), Economic Journal, 114, F499-F517
2004
“Monotonicity and the Roy Model” (with G. Lanot), Manchester School, 72,560-567


2003
“Measuring over education”, Economica , 70, 509-531
2003
"The Long-run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood" (with T.
Viitanen), Journal of Population Economics, 16, 2, 323-343
2002
“Education, Motivation and Pay of UK graduates, Is it Different for Girls?”, European
Journal of Education, 37, 4, 347-370
2002
“The Causality Between Female Labour Force Participation and the Supply of
Childcare” (with T. Viitanen) Applied Economics Letters, 9, 915-918
2002
“The Relative Effect of Family Characteristics and Financial Situation on Educational
Achievement” (with G. Lanot), Education Economics, 10, 2, 165-182

* Books and book chapters

2008 “Intergenerational Mobility and Education Equality” (with K. Denny and D. McMahon)
in “Education and Inequality across Europe”, in P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth
(Eds), Edward Elgar (Forthcoming)
2005
The Labour Market for Teachers (with P. Dolton) in “What’s the Worth of Education”,
S. Machin and A. Vignoles (Eds), Princeton University Press
2005
School Quality and Effectiveness (with P. Dolton and R. Levacic) in “What’s the Worth
of Education”, S. Machin and A. Vignoles (Eds), Princeton University Press
2003
Teacher Pay and Performance (with P. Dolton and S. McIntosh) Bedford Way papers,
Institute of Education, London
2001
“Further Results on the Returns to Education in the UK” (with I. Walker) in “Education
and Earnings in Europe: A cross country analysis of returns to education”, C. Harmon,
I. Walker, and N. Westergaard-Nielsen (Eds), Edward-Elgar
1999
“The Returns to Education in the UK” (with G. Lanot, I. Walker and P. Woolley), in
“Returns to Human Capital in Europe, a literature review”, R. Asplund and P. Telhado
Pereira Eds, ETLA, Helsinki

* Submitted papers

“Students self-Perception” (with S. Gibbons, A. Thorpe, M. Snell, T. Hoskins), IZA, DP
3031 (Revised and Resubmit)
“Health and Knowledge: The UK Measles, Mumps and Rubella Controversy” (with D.
Anderberg and J. Wadsworth), IZA, DP 3590
“Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates”
“To be or not to be a Scientist?”

* Reports and non-referred publications

2007 “Financing Higher Education”, European Educational Research Journal, 6, 190-197
2005 “The Economics of Early Childhood Care and Education” in “Early Childhood Care and
Education”, with C. Finn, C. Harmon and T. Viitanen, National Economic and Social
Forum


2004 “Wages and Recruitment in the Public and Private Sectors amongst UK Graduates”, with
P. Dolton, Her Majesty Treasury
2003 “The Pay, Working Hours and Job Satisfaction of Health Care Professionals” with P.
Dolton, Department of Health, August 2003
2002 “Financial Returns to Undergraduate Studies” with G. Conlon, Council for Industry and
Higher Education, May 2002
2002 “Decision at 16 and Beyond” with G. Conlon and T. Xenogiani, Learning and Skill
Council
2001 “Relative Pay in the Public and Private Sectors” with P. Dolton, G. Makepeace and S.
McIntosh, Her Majesty Treasury
2001
“Returns to Higher Education Teaching” with G. Conlon, S. McNally, F. Galindo-
Rueda, DfES, CEE discussion paper 26
1997
“Mapping the Careers of Highly Qualified Workers” (with C. Belfield, A. Bullock, A.
Fielding, W. Siebert and H. Thomas), HEFCE Research Series


Work in progress

“A review of the effect of education on drinking, smoking and BMI” (with Koji
Miyamoto)
“Does education improve racial relationship?” (with A. deCoulon and A. Zimmermann)
“Education and Voting Behaviour in Europe” (with Orla Doyle)
“Higher Education Quality”
“Mother’s Education and Birth Weight” (with V. O’Sullivan), IZA, DP 2640
“Sheepskin or Prozac: the Causal Effect of Education on Depression” (with L.
Feinstein), IZA, DP 2231
“Parental Education, Income and Child’s Education” (with C. Harmon, V. O’Sullivan
and I. Walker), IZA, DP 1496
“Does it Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?” (with G. Conlon), CEE, DP 33


Recent Presentations:

“Health and Knowledge: The UK Measles, Mumps and Rubella Controversy” (with D.
Anderberg and J. Wadsworth)
November 2008 Department of Economics, Lausanne University
May 2008
University College Dublin, Geary Institute Seminar
May 2008
National Bureau of Economic Research, Children Group, Boston
May 2008
Society of Labor Economics, New York
January 2008
Department of Economics, University of Kent
November 2007
Department of Economics, Université de Rouen

“To be or not to be a scientist”


July 2008
DWPEG, Sheffield

“Self-Perception of Students” (with S. Gibbons)
July 2008
University of Westminster, seminar
June 2008
European Society of Population Economics, London
March 2008 Royal Economic Society, Warwick
July 2007
CEP, LSE “Labour Seminar”
July 2007
DWPEG, Manchester

“Mother’s education and birth weight” (with V. O’Sullivan)
June 2007
European Society of Population Economics, Chicago
April 2007
Department of Economics, Université de Nantes
January 2007
Labourmetrics, Birmingham
December 2006 LoWER Workshop, Annecy
November 2006 Geary Institute, University College Dublin
November 2006 Department of Economics, Université de Rouen
September 2006
European Association of Labour Economists, Annual Meeting, Prague
July 2006
Department of Work and Pension Economic Group, Annual Conference, Kent
June 2006
Department of Economics, University of St Gallen
December 2005 Centre for the Wilder Benefit of Learning, Institute of Education, London

“Gender and Expectations”
December 2006 Royal Statistical Society


“Over-education and the skills of UK Graduates” (with J. Lindley)
June 2006
Educational outcomes: methodological issues and empirical evidence, Milan

“Sheepskin or Prozac: the causal effect of education on depression” (with L. Feinstein)
June 2006
Department of Economics, University of Zurich
May 2006
Department of Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain la Neuve
May 2006
Society of Labor Economists, Boston
January 2006
Department of Economics, Portsmouth University
December 2005 Economic Evaluation of Public Policies, Paris
October 2005
Department of Economics, Université de Rouen
June 2005
Labour market workshop, CEP, LSE
April 2005
Department of Economics Seminar, University of Sheffield
March 2005
Royal Economic Society, Annual Meeting, Nottingham
October 2004
COST meeting, Amsterdam
April 2004
LoWER meeting, London School of Economics

“Parental education, income and child’s education” (with C. Harmon, V. O’Sullivan
and I. Walker)
September 2005
European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, Buch am Amersee
June 2005
Society of Labor Economists, World Congress, San Francisco
March 2005
Seminar on intergenerational mobility, Ghent
March 2004
Uppsala University, IFAU workshop
February 2004
Dublin Labour Group Workshop, NUI Maynooth





Refereeing activity since 2005:

American Economic Review, Annales d’Economie et Statistique, Applied Economics Quarterly,
Australian Economic Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations (2), Economic and Social
Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change(2), Economic Journal, Economic Letters,
Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics (3), Empirical
Economics, European Economic Review (2) , International Journal of Manpower, Journal of
Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human
Resources, Journal of Population Economics (11), Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the
Royal Statistical Society series A (3), Labour (2), Labour Economics (10), New Political Economy,
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2), Oxford Economic Paper, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Review of the Economics of Household, Review of Economics and Statistics (2),
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (3), Southern Economic
Journal.

Examined PhDs:

Nov 2007
Christian Anderson (Uppsala University)
Feb 2006
Maria Luisa Decuir-Viruez (Kent University)

Other services:

2009
Guest editor to Labour Economics, Conference issue
October 08 – 11 ESRC College Member
Jan 2007 - 09
Associate Editor to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
July 2006
ESRC panel on Evaluation Method Initiative



References

Prof. Peter Dolton
Prof. Colm Harmon
Prof. Gauthier Lanot
Prof. Ian Walker
Department of Economics
Geary Institute
Department of Economics
Department of Economics
Royal Holloway
University College Dublin
Keele University
University of Warwick
Egham TW20 0EX
Dublin 4
Keele, ST5 5BG
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Ireland
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
peter.dolton@rhul.ac.uk
Colm.harmon@ucd.ie
eca25@keele.ac.uk
i.walker@warwick.ac.uk
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