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Vincent Pons

Vincent Pons

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Associate Professor of Business Administration

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Vincent Pons is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He studies questions in political economy and development.

Across the world, distrust and dissatisfaction with elected governments are at all-time highs. Professor Pons’s research studies democratic representation to understand why representative democracies can fail to deliver leaders, policies and economic outcomes aligned with people’s preferences. This work has appeared in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review and the American Political Science Review. It has resulted in mentions and opinion pieces in media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, PRI's The World, the Huffington Post, le Monde, and BFM Business.

Professor Pons received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a master in economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (joint with the Paris School of Economics and ENSAE) and a master’s degree in political philosophy from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

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Featured Work Publications Research Summary
Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates
In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5% of registered citizens. Using a fuzzy RDD around this threshold, we find that the third candidate attracts both “switchers,” who would have voted for one of the top two candidates if she were not present, and “loyal” voters, who would have abstained. Switchers vote for the third candidate even when she is very unlikely to win. This disproportionately harms the candidate ideologically closest to her and causes his defeat in one fifth of the races. These results suggest that a large fraction of voters value voting expressively over behaving strategically to ensure the victory of their second best. We rationalize our findings by a model in which different types of voters trade off expressive and strategic motives.
Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote shares are recorded administratively. Visits did not affect turnout, but increased Hollande’s vote share in the first round and accounted for one fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits’ impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect.
Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing either information about registration or help to register at home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. Home registration did not reduce turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in and knowledgeable about the elections as a result of being able to participate in them, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. The results suggest that easing registration requirements could substantially enhance political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups.

Vincent Pons is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He studies questions in political economy and development.

Across the world, distrust and dissatisfaction with elected governments are at all-time highs. Professor Pons’s research studies democratic representation to understand why representative democracies can fail to deliver leaders, policies and economic outcomes aligned with people’s preferences. This work has appeared in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review and the American Political Science Review. It has resulted in mentions and opinion pieces in media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, PRI's The World, the Huffington Post, le Monde, and BFM Business.

Professor Pons received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a master in economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (joint with the Paris School of Economics and ENSAE) and a master’s degree in political philosophy from Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

Featured Work
Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates
In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5% of registered citizens. Using a fuzzy RDD around this threshold, we find that the third candidate attracts both “switchers,” who would have voted for one of the top two candidates if she were not present, and “loyal” voters, who would have abstained. Switchers vote for the third candidate even when she is very unlikely to win. This disproportionately harms the candidate ideologically closest to her and causes his defeat in one fifth of the races. These results suggest that a large fraction of voters value voting expressively over behaving strategically to ensure the victory of their second best. We rationalize our findings by a model in which different types of voters trade off expressive and strategic motives.
Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote shares are recorded administratively. Visits did not affect turnout, but increased Hollande’s vote share in the first round and accounted for one fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits’ impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect.
Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing either information about registration or help to register at home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. Home registration did not reduce turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in and knowledgeable about the elections as a result of being able to participate in them, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. The results suggest that easing registration requirements could substantially enhance political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups.
Journal Articles
  • Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud. "Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates." Econometrica 86, no. 5 (September 2018): 1621–1649. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France." American Economic Review 108, no. 6 (June 2018): 1322–1363. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-079, January 2016.) View Details
  • Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-078, January 2016. (Accepted, Journal of Public Economics.) View Details
  • Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons. "Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy." Economics & Politics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 20, 2020.) View Details
  • Galasso, Vincenzo, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard, and Martial Foucault. "Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 44 (November 3, 2020). View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey. "Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France." Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) 129, no. 617 (January 2019): 481–508. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-094, February 2016.) View Details
  • Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons. "Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France." American Political Science Review 111, no. 3 (August 2017): 584–604. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-098, March 2016.) View Details
  • Devoto, Florencia, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons. "Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 4 (November 2012): 68–99. View Details
Working Papers
  • Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons. "Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27998, October 2020. (Revise and resubmit requested, American Economic Review.) View Details
  • Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons. "Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25522, February 2019. (Revised March 2020. Revise and resubmit requested, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.) View Details
  • Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23946, October 2017. (Conditionally accepted, Economic Journal.) View Details
  • Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons. "Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision, and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26388, October 2019. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-077, March 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud. "The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26599, December 2019. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-026, September 2018. Revised September 2020.) View Details
  • Le Pennec, Caroline, and Vincent Pons. "How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multi-Country Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26572, December 2019. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-031, September 2019. Revised July 2020.) View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Pons, Vincent, John Masko, Rafael Di Tella, and William Mullins. "Unrest in Chile." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 721-016, November 2020. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, William Mullins, John Masko, Annelena Lobb, and Rafael Di Tella. "Unrest in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 720-033, April 2020. (Revised July 2020.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Amram Migdal, and Mike Lynch. "Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead." Harvard Business School Case 718-038, March 2018. (Revised January 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 719-050, March 2019. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism in France." Harvard Business School Case 717-052, April 2017. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism in France." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 719-049, February 2019. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Elena Corsi. "Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism in France (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-075, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Rafael Di Tella, and Annelena Lobb. "Populism in Bolivia: From Goni's Neoliberal Shock to Evo's Oil Contract Renegotiations." Harvard Business School Case 719-001, February 2019. (Revised March 2019.) View Details
  • Di Tella, Rafael, Vincent Pons, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "Populism in Bolivia: From Goni's Neoliberal Shock to Evo's Oil Contract Renegotiations." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 719-057, March 2019. (Revised March 2019.) View Details
  • Di Tella, Rafael, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta, and David Lane. "Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past." Harvard Business School Case 717-034, June 2017. (Revised August 2018.) View Details
  • Di Tella, Rafael, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta, and David Lane. "Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 717-055, June 2017. (Revised August 2017.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Marco E. Tabellini. "Democracy: Exit, Voice and Representation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-038, November 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Populism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-037, November 2018. (Revised June 2019.) View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Multilateralism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-039, November 2018. View Details
  • Cavallo, Alberto, Kristin Fabbe, Mattias Fibiger, Jeremy Friedman, Reshmaan Hussam, Vincent Pons, and Matthew Weinzierl. "The BGIE Twenty (2021 version)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-032, December 2017. (Revised December 2020.) View Details
Other Publications
  • Pons, Vincent, and Vestal McIntyre. "Ground Work vs. Social Media: How to Best Reach Voters in French Municipal Elections." IPP Policy Brief, Nº50, Institut des Politiques Publiques, February 2020. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Clémence Tricaud, and Vestal McIntyre. "Expressive Voting and Its Costs." IPP Policy Brief, Nº40, Institut des Politiques Publiques, May 2019. View Details
  • Liégey, Guillaume, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons. Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain. Calmann-Lévy, 2013, French ed. View Details
  • Huddart, Sophie, Thomas Bossuroy, Vincent Pons, Siddhartha Baral, Madhukar Pai, and Clara Delavallade. "Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India." PLoS ONE 13, no. 10 (2018). View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Has Social Science Taken Over Electoral Campaigns and Should We Regret It?" French Politics, Culture and Society 34, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 34–47. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent. "Comment mobiliser les exclus du jeu politique?" Regards croisés sur l'économie, no. 18 (2016): 213–226. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Guillaume Liégey, and Arthur Muller. "L'abstention n'est pas une fatalité." Esprit, nos. 3-4 (March–April 2011): 77–88. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Guillaume Liégey, and Arthur Muller. "Les rouages de la démocratie en panne: quel rôle pour les partis politiques?" In Pour changer de civilisation: Martine Aubry avec 50 chercheurs et citoyens, edited by Martine Aubry. Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob, 2011, French ed. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, Jose Miguel Abito, Katarina Borovickova, Hays Golden, Jacob Goldin, Matthew A. Masten, Miguel Morin, Alexander Poirier, Israel Romem, Tyler Williams, and Chamna Yoon. "How Should the Graduate Economics Core be Changed?" Journal of Economic Education 42, no. 4 (2011): 414–417. View Details
Research Summary
Overview
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding why representative democracies can fail to deliver leaders, policies and economic outcomes aligned with people’s preferences and how to strengthen it.
Political Economy

Professor Pons' political economy research has three broad components, corresponding to three critical steps in the democratic process, with a focus on the role played by political parties.

First, representative democratic outcomes hinge on most or all eligible citizens engaging in the political game and participating in elections. Professor Pons has run field experiments spanning entire countries and embedded in real campaigns to study the effects of voter outreach efforts, to identify which barriers to voting they can effectively reduce, and to measure the gains candidates and parties can expect from them. An experiment on voter registration in France showed that both the provision of information and the facilitation of administrative registration requirements could substantially increase political participation and improve the representation of marginalized groups without diminishing the overall level of voter awareness. Another large-scale field experiment, embedded in François Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election, revealed that partisan campaigns can have a large and lasting impact on vote shares. A more recent project estimates a value-added model on panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population to assess the relative influence of contextual drivers of voter behavior, such as party activities, election rules, and economic growth, vs. individual factors, such as race and education.

Second, Professor Pons studies the mechanisms of how elections aggregate voters’ preferences, namely: which candidates decide to run and on which positions, how voters form their preferences and translate them into vote choices, and how the voting rule translates ballots cast into election outcomes such as the designation of a new president or parliament. The programmatic work done by political parties and the alliances they strike with each other can help structure the multi-dimensional policy space, narrow down the number of candidates and increase the representativeness of elected leaders. A recent study uses a regression discontinuity design to show that the plurality rule often leads to suboptimal outcomes, due to failed coordination by both parties and voters: in a large fraction of elections, voters have to choose between more than two candidates, due to parties’ failure to reach an agreement, and a large fraction of them vote expressively (for the candidate they prefer) instead of strategically (for a candidate with a chance of winning) in that case.

Third, democracies’ ability to deliver social and economic outcomes aligned with people’s preferences depends on the extent to which elected governments turn electoral results into actual policies. Representatives may fail to implement the policies for which they were elected, due to limited capacity, misaligned incentives, or constraints imposed by supranational and subnational forces. In a new project studying all national elections in the world since 1789, Professor Pons assesses the extent to which voters obtain the change (in policies and ensuing outcomes) for which they vote when they put a new party in power.

Public Services

Which policy is most likely to deliver desired social and economic results and improve substantive democracy can sometimes be difficult to assess. Professor Pons has conducted experiments which help address this issue by evaluating interventions aimed at improving the quality of public services and enabling all citizens, including the most disadvantaged, to benefit from them. In several studies, he examines treatment of tuberculosis in India. One study focuses on the effect of biometric monitoring devices on patients’ treatment compliance, health workers’ attendance, and data forgery, and another on the effectiveness of health worker incentives on early detection of TB and on ensuring that patients complete the full course of treatment.

Additional Information
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • LinkedIn Profile
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Email
  • vpons@hbs.edu
In The News

In The News

    • 09 Dec 2020
    • UCLA Anderson Review

    Voters Often Opt for Candidate They Expect to Win

    • 23 Nov 2020
    • Le Figaro

    La campagne invisible de Joe Biden peut-elle devenir un modèle?

    • 20 Nov 2020
    • Le Monde

    Les femmes sont plus respectueuses des mesures de confinement et des gestes barrières

    • 07 Nov 2020
    • VoxEU

    Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance

    • 02 Nov 2020
    • BBC

    Very Few Voters Remain Undecided, But One Thing Still Matters: Turnout

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29 Oct 2020
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21 Oct 2020
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20 Oct 2020
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17 Oct 2020
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25 Sep 2020
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21 Feb 2019
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19 Feb 2019
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19 Feb 2019
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12 Feb 2019
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11 Feb 2019
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06 Sep 2018
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Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?

06 Jul 2018
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05 Jul 2018
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Mesurer l’impact des politiques publiques est un exercice indispensable

15 Mar 2018
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L’alternative entre scrutins majoritaire et proportionnel demeure réductrice

28 Sep 2017
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10 Jun 2017
Prospect
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20 Jun 2017
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16 May 2017
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08 May 2017
Harvard Business Review
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08 May 2017
Christian Science Monitor
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07 May 2017
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21 Apr 2017
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15 Apr 2017
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13 Apr 2017
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Three men + software = l'Elysée?

13 Apr 2017
Huffington Post
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11 Oct 2016
Harvard Business Review
The Nobel Prize in Economics. An analysis with Harvard Business School economist Vincent Pons

23 Aug 2016
MIT Technology Review
U.S.-style canvassing boosts French voter turnout.

22 Jun 2016
Le Figaro
Liegey-Muller-Pons, la start-up qui veut moderniser les campagnes électorales

15 Jun 2016
BFM Business
"En Marche !": "C'est une démarche qui consiste à se mettre à l'écoute des Français"

18 May 2016
PRI: The World
Every vote matters. What's the best way to get them?

10 May 2016
L'express
Les stratèges de la grande marche d'Emmanuel Macron

02 May 2016
HBS Working Knowledge
Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps

07 Apr 2016
PBS Newshour
Brief, face-to-face canvassing reduces transgender prejudice, study says

19 Feb 2016
Quartz
Can you change someone’s politics by talking to them for five minutes?

21 Jan 2016
MIT News
The perils of building democracy in Africa

13 Jan 2016
HBS Working Knowledge
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

14 Mar 2015
Le Monde
L’abstention et ses territoires

18 Feb 2015
New York Times
The National Front’s Post-Charlie Hebdo Moment

20 Mar 2014
Liberation
Europe? Yes, we can

21 Apr 2012
New York Times
In France, Using Lessons From Obama Campaign

20 Apr 2012
Slate
The American Connection

Additional Information
Curriculum Vitae
LinkedIn Profile
Twitter

Email

vpons@hbs.edu

vpons@hbs.edu

In The News

    • 09 Dec 2020
    • UCLA Anderson Review

    Voters Often Opt for Candidate They Expect to Win

    • 23 Nov 2020
    • Le Figaro

    La campagne invisible de Joe Biden peut-elle devenir un modèle?

    • 20 Nov 2020
    • Le Monde

    Les femmes sont plus respectueuses des mesures de confinement et des gestes barrières

    • 07 Nov 2020
    • VoxEU

    Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance

    • 02 Nov 2020
    • BBC

    Very Few Voters Remain Undecided, But One Thing Still Matters: Turnout

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Vincent Pons In the News

09 Dec 2020
UCLA Anderson Review
Voters Often Opt for Candidate They Expect to Win

23 Nov 2020
Le Figaro
La campagne invisible de Joe Biden peut-elle devenir un modèle?

20 Nov 2020
Le Monde
Les femmes sont plus respectueuses des mesures de confinement et des gestes barrières

07 Nov 2020
VoxEU
Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance

02 Nov 2020
BBC
Very Few Voters Remain Undecided, But One Thing Still Matters: Turnout

29 Oct 2020
HBS Working Knowledge
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

27 Oct 2020
Mint
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21 Oct 2020
Fox News
Women take coronavirus more seriously than men, study shows

20 Oct 2020
Scientific American
Presidential Debates Have Shockingly Little Effect on Election Outcomes

17 Oct 2020
Diario Financiero
El estallido llega a Harvard

30 Sep 2020
Poynter
Do debates affect presidential elections? Not much.

29 Sep 2020
BBC
As it happened: The US debate 'cat fight'

29 Sep 2020
Fast Company
Do debates matter? Do they change minds about elections? Here’s what the data say

25 Sep 2020
Spectrum News
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22 Sep 2020
VoxEU
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01 Sep 2020
HBS Alumni Bulletin
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

29 Jun 2020
J-PAL
On Track: Health Care, Patient Data, and Provider Performance

25 Jun 2020
J-PAL
Connecting the dots from detection to cure

09 Dec 2019
VoxDev
The Power of Biometric Identification for Development

19 Nov 2019
HBS Working Knowledge
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

15 Oct 2019
Pro Market
Fighting Poverty With Field Experiments: the Nobel Laureates’ Revolution

21 Feb 2019
Vox
A new study finds voter ID laws don’t reduce voter fraud — or voter turnout

21 Feb 2019
HBS Working Knowledge
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

19 Feb 2019
Boston Globe
Voter ID laws aren’t worth fighting over

19 Feb 2019
Economist
Do voter ID laws reduce turnout among black Americans?

12 Feb 2019
New York Times
The Myths of Voter ID

11 Feb 2019
Marginal Revolution
Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel

06 Sep 2018
Cold Call
Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?

06 Jul 2018
American Economic Association
Winning votes, one conversation at a time

05 Jul 2018
Le Monde
Mesurer l’impact des politiques publiques est un exercice indispensable

15 Mar 2018
Le Monde
L’alternative entre scrutins majoritaire et proportionnel demeure réductrice

28 Sep 2017
Harvard Gazette
An electoral French revolution

10 Jun 2017
Prospect
How big data helped secure Emmanuel Macron’s astounding victory

20 Jun 2017
Huffington Post
How Obama Won The French Election

16 May 2017
Le Figaro
Présidentielle: comment les électeurs de Fillon et de Mélenchon ont voté au second tour

08 May 2017
Harvard Business Review
The French Election and What It Means for Europe with Vincent Pons

08 May 2017
Christian Science Monitor
In Macron, supporters see a champion of optimism

07 May 2017
Boston Globe
Why don’t we vote on weekends?

21 Apr 2017
Atlantic
Can a French Political Upstart Ride Obama's Strategy to Victory?

25 Apr 2017
Capital
LMP, la start-up qui a aidé Macron à gagner


Harvard Business Review
How France’s Brand of Populism Differs from What Drove Brexit and Trump

15 Apr 2017
Sputnik
Macron Wants to Implement Vital Economic Reforms in France Amid Scandals

13 Apr 2017
Le Monde
Three men + software = l'Elysée?

13 Apr 2017
Huffington Post
Candidates already know who you're going to vote for, and it's not through surveys

11 Oct 2016
Harvard Business Review
The Nobel Prize in Economics. An analysis with Harvard Business School economist Vincent Pons

23 Aug 2016
MIT Technology Review
U.S.-style canvassing boosts French voter turnout.

22 Jun 2016
Le Figaro
Liegey-Muller-Pons, la start-up qui veut moderniser les campagnes électorales

15 Jun 2016
BFM Business
"En Marche !": "C'est une démarche qui consiste à se mettre à l'écoute des Français"

18 May 2016
PRI: The World
Every vote matters. What's the best way to get them?

10 May 2016
L'express
Les stratèges de la grande marche d'Emmanuel Macron

02 May 2016
HBS Working Knowledge
Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps

07 Apr 2016
PBS Newshour
Brief, face-to-face canvassing reduces transgender prejudice, study says

19 Feb 2016
Quartz
Can you change someone’s politics by talking to them for five minutes?

21 Jan 2016
MIT News
The perils of building democracy in Africa

13 Jan 2016
HBS Working Knowledge
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

14 Mar 2015
Le Monde
L’abstention et ses territoires

18 Feb 2015
New York Times
The National Front’s Post-Charlie Hebdo Moment

20 Mar 2014
Liberation
Europe? Yes, we can

21 Apr 2012
New York Times
In France, Using Lessons From Obama Campaign

20 Apr 2012
Slate
The American Connection

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