Louis Lévy-Garboua

Louis Lévy-Garboua (born 27 September 1945) is a French economist whose work focuses on behavioral economics and microeconomics. He is a distinguished professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and at the Paris School of Economics. A former student of the École Polytechnique and the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration, Lévy-Garboua is a Doctor of State in Economics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Associate of Universities in France. Professor at the University of Paris I, Lévy-Garboua first taught microeconomics applied to public policies and social institutions, as well as the economy of uncertainty information and behavioral economics. He wrote his main works in the 1970s, including helping students in France: facts and criticism to the CNRS editions in 1977, and made important around the economics of education. He is the director of the research team associated with the CNRS. Applied Microeconomics (LAMIA), a unit also associated with the CNRS. Knight of the National Order of Merit in 1995, Lévy-Garboua is appointed expert of the Research Directorate of the Ministry of National Education. In the 2000s, he ensures the preparation of the aggregation course at the École normale supérieure of Cachan on human capital and several international universities, including the University of Montreal, as a guest and expert in microeconomics. Since 2000, Lévy-Garboua has been associated with CIRANO (Interuniversity Center for Research and Analysis of Organizations) in Montreal. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Observatory of Student Life (OVE), and principal organizer (with Christine Roland-Lévy) of the International Conference IAREP. 2008 : Learning from Experience or Learning from Others? Inferring Informal Training from a Human Capital Earnings Function with Matched Employer-Employee Data (with G. Destré and M. Sollogoub), Journal of Socio-Economics. Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices : an Experimental Study, with Lionel Page and Claude Montmarquette (2006), published in Economics of Education Review 26, (2007), 747-757.