C'était un plaisir absolu de discuter avec vous !! 🤩 Discussions passionnantes au rendez-vous. Si vous voulez savoir comment @aurelienallard.bsky.social va sauver la science et découvrir ce qu'est un interrobang, il vous suffit d'un clic !! ⬇️
{🚨Exiting talk alert} 🍼 They say “Breast is best”… but what happens when mothers don’t (or can’t) comply?
On 📅 19 Feb 2026 | 4 pm (Paris), we will hear Marta Domínguez-Folgueras @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social on breastfeeding norms.
📍 In person & Zoom
🔗Details & registration ⬇️
🚨 Don't miss our next online Family Policy seminar with the wonderful @keonhison.bsky.social on Wednesday (17th), 4:30 pm: "Hidden work-family challenges in the global south: a systematic review of causes, consequences, and policy responses."
👉More about it here: www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/eve...
This RCT by @laudine.bsky.social et al. finds that providing information and support to target cognitive and behavioural barriers eliminates early childcare application gaps for low-income and immigrant families in France. @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to my co-authors Arthur Heim, Carlo Barone & Coralie Chevallier, our funders, and all the 30 research assistants who made this trial possible. 🙏
To ensure equal access, administrative simplification is thus needed. But it is not enough. Policymakers must also reform allocation systems and tackle structural inequalities.
7/ Takeaway:
Reducing administrative burden helps families overcome application and information barriers created by the system. Administrative processes can thus themselves be stratification tools, creating a Matthew effect—only those who already have resources can access social programs.
6/ But: applying ≠ accessing.
Despite more applications, access inequalities largely persisted. Daycare access improved mainly for high-SES families. This demonstrates that structural barriers in allocation rules still weigh heavily on immigrant and low-SES families.
5/ Results:
Info alone: almost no effect.
✅ Info + support: boosted applications, especially among low-SES & immigrant families. When low-SES and immigrant families receive the support, it closes the application gap that exist in the control group 🚀
4/ We ran a large RCT with 1,849 families in the Paris region.
Two interventions:
📱 Info only (texts + short videos in FR/EN/AR)
📱+📞 personalised phone support to complete applications
3/ We asked: could information and administrative barriers—not just cost or availability—explain part of this gap?
Think: administrative burdens, complex procedures, lack of information, cognitive overload, or social norms discouraging applications.
3/ We asked: could information and administrative barriers—not just cost or availability—explain part of this gap?
Think: administrative burdens, complex procedures, lack of information, cognitive overload, or social norms discouraging applications.
2/ Why this matters:
Low-SES and immigrant families benefit the most from high-quality early childcare—yet they access it the least. In France, despite relatively abundant and affordable provision, inequalities remain striking.
1/ Thrilled to share that my main PhD article has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉
👉 “A randomised controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France” rdcu.be/eFAEA
Nice thing to see 😍🤩
📢 Research Assistant (Quant Soc/Data Science) – 4-month full-time contract
Join an interdisciplinary project @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social on reducing early childhood inequalities. 🤩
📍 Paris
🗓️ Sept–Dec 2025
💰 ~€2500/month + benefits
Apply by June 15! More details 🔽
drive.google.com/file/d/1_mQH...
[D-5] 📢Don't forget to register both online and in person! For this session, @bpalier.bsky.social will be discussant of the wonderful Leanna Katz! 🤩
Excited and proud to see my research cited multiple times in the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's new report "Reducing Inequalities by Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care", to which I also contributed! 🎉 🤩
💡This brief video explains why we should care about early childcare ⬇️
📢Join our Family Policy Research Group on April 8th at 4:30 PM @SciencesPo and online!
Excited to welcome Leanna Katz from McGill Law to present on "The Rise of Private Equity in Childcare: A Legal Institutionalist Story of Its Causes and Responses" 🤩
Register ▶️ www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/eve...
[REMINDER, TOMORROW] So looking forward to our new edition of our Family Policy Research Group tomorrow. We will listen to the wonderful Léa Dubreuil about her exciting research! 🤩 🥳
📅 When? March 4th, 16h30-18h
📌 Where? Participate in person or via Zoom: bit.ly/3EvGto1
Don't forget to register!
Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
This is an essential pack to follow.
go.bsky.app/44RAXUc
🚨 On #recrute! [#hiring !] 🚨
On recherche la perle rare ! 💎Nous cherchons une ou un stagiaire à temps plein pour participer à l’évaluation qualitative ex-post d'un programme d'accompagnement ! Lien vers l'offre complète et modalités de candidature : drive.google.com/file/d/1b2uH...
C’est tellement cool de voir ça 🤩
📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).
Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
