Robert GARY-BOBO

Robert Gary-Bobo is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne) and Adjunct Professor at ENSAE/IPP Paris. He is also an affiliated member of CREST and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His career has included prior appointments at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, the Paris School of Economics, and École Polytechnique.

Education & Affiliations

• Professor of Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Adjunct Professor, ENSAE – IPP Paris
• Affiliated Member, CREST
• Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France

Research Interests

Robert Gary-Bobo’s work lies at the intersection of public economics, health economics, education economics, and applied econometrics. Using modern micro-econometric techniques and game-theoretic modeling, he investigates how public policies affect individual behavior and market outcomes. Recurrent themes include the efficiency of public hospitals, the economic value of educational credentials, optimal design of student-loan and pension systems, and the evaluation of large-scale social programs.

His research on health care explores economies of density in home-care services and the productive efficiency of French public hospitals. In education, he studies grade-retention policies, class-size effects, and the signaling value of diplomas in the French labor market. A methodological hallmark of his recent papers is the use of finite-mixture and non-parametric approaches to handle unobserved heterogeneity in program evaluation.

Publications

Over the past decade his output has concentrated on empirical studies of French administrative data, leading to more than a dozen working papers and journal articles since 2021. The dominant thrust is policy-oriented econometric work on health and education, complemented by theoretical investigations into optimal taxation, student-loan design, and relational contracting.

Scientific Awards

Robert Gary-Bobo was elected Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a selective national honor recognizing outstanding research contributions.

Teaching & Doctoral Supervision

He currently teaches graduate courses in Public Economics, Health Economics, and Economics of Education at both ENSAE/IPP Paris and the Master in Public Policy at University Paris 1. While no explicit list of supervised PhD students is provided, his extensive teaching and research activities indicate continuous involvement in doctoral training.

Laboratories & Teams

He is affiliated with the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne (University Paris 1) and CREST, two leading French research centers in economics and econometrics. These affiliations provide access to large administrative datasets and foster collaboration with applied econometricians and public-policy scholars.