{"id":390,"date":"2017-05-22T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hubble.owwwlab.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:15:55","slug":"in-short","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/","title":{"rendered":"In Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;200&#8243; tablet_height=&#8221;180&#8243; mobile_height=&#8221;150&#8243; jangulak=&#8221;true&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1495464768088{margin-top: -50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\">Lucas Girard<\/h1>\n<h3>CV (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1iidmhXw2-gb5-fP3DuCdAPwQZkKwC7QG\/view?usp=sharing\">link<\/a>) &#8211; extended CV (in French) (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Gu6W2xfj_zLhI00PTnbtQ19bQuJNnd-U\/view?usp=sharing\">link<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Job Market Paper<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1_aXkvaZXUfc4EF7mvty9kZmjRGcnemAz?usp=sharing\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xavier D&#8217;Haultfoeuille &#8212; CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris (<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/xdhaultfoeuille\/\">website and contact<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Elia Lapenta &#8212; CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/elialapenta\">website and contact<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Guillaume Lecu\u00e9 &#8212; ESSEC Business School\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/guillaume-lecue.faculty.essec.edu\/home\">website and contact<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Loss &#8212; Cergy Paris University, THEMA (<a href=\"https:\/\/thema.u-cergy.fr\/membres\/enseignants-chercheurs\/loss\">website and contact<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Post-Doctoral Researcher in Econometrics<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 25px\">\n<li><strong>Address<\/strong>: 5 avenue Henry Le Chatelier, Palaiseau, 91120, France<\/li>\n<li><strong>Office<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fo\/0k8uii782bxllpo06gmlt\/AHFjYnK2DJklFwOcKSgFExM?rlkey=9gxy4wr0cg43soeorz6bji71c&amp;st=rnbcik3l&amp;dl=0\">4097<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: lucas.girard[at]ensae.fr<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal Website<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/\">https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Between 2017 and 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in econometrics at <a href=\"http:\/\/crest.science\/\">CREST<\/a> (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics) under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/xdhaultfoeuille\/\">Xavier D&#8217;Haultfoeuille<\/a>.<br \/>\nI worked as a Teaching Fellow (2020-2022) and a Teaching Coordinator in mathematics (2022-2024) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensae.fr\/en\/\">ENSAE Paris<\/a>.<br \/>\nI have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at CREST since September 2024 under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/elialapenta\/home\">Elia Lapenta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in econometric theory and its application, with three main themes of research as of now:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reliable (robust to the &#8220;small-unit bias&#8221;) measures of polarization\/segregation.<\/li>\n<li>Nonasymptotically valid (coverage at least the nominal level for finite sample sizes) confidence intervals in linear regressions and in more general settings.<\/li>\n<li>Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) estimation tools in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables (NPIV) regressions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Last but not least, I like teaching and think it is a vital complement to research and how to communicate and convey it. I have taught as a teacher assistant for maths, econometrics, statistics, and microeconomics courses at ENSAE, and as a lecturer at <a href=\"https:\/\/ens-paris-saclay.fr\/en\/education\/masters\/economics\">ENS Paris-Saclay<\/a> (&#8220;Intermediate Econometrics&#8221; in the Master of Economics program), at <a href=\"https:\/\/programmes.polytechnique.edu\/en\/bachelor\/about-the-bachelor\/bachelor-of-science\">Ecole Polytechnique<\/a> (&#8220;Mathematical Tools for Economics&#8221; in the Bachelor of Science program), and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensae.fr\/en\/\">ENSAE Paris<\/a> (&#8220;Econometrics 2&#8243; in the engineering Master program).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60&#8243; tablet_height=&#8221;40&#8243; mobile_height=&#8221;30&#8243;][hubble_list_title items=&#8221;%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22Econometric%20Theory%22%2C%22label%22%3A%22Econometrics%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22Applied%20Microeconometrics%22%2C%22label%22%3A%22Economics%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22Natural%20Language%20Processing%22%2C%22label%22%3A%22Statistics%22%7D%5D&#8221; title=&#8221;Research Interests&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;80&#8243; tablet_height=&#8221;70&#8243; mobile_height=&#8221;60&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;200&#8243; tablet_height=&#8221;180&#8243; mobile_height=&#8221;150&#8243; jangulak=&#8221;true&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1495464768088{margin-top: -50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text] Lucas Girard CV (link) &#8211; extended CV (in French) (link) Job Market Paper (link) References Xavier D&#8217;Haultfoeuille &#8212; CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris (website and contact) Elia Lapenta &#8212; CREST, ENSAE, IP Paris (website and contact) Guillaume Lecu\u00e9 &#8212; ESSEC Business School\u00a0(website and contact) Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Loss &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.crest.fr\/lgirard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}