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EVAL-LAB was founded on a simple conviction: to maximize their impact, organizations committed to social change need evaluation tools that are rigorous, accessible, and genuinely useful for guiding their actions.
Yet too often, these organizations struggle to access evaluations that truly enable learning, improvement, and lasting social transformation. It was this conviction that led me to found EVAL-LAB, following the completion of a PhD specializing in the evaluation of education policies and ten years spent at J-PAL, the research lab founded by Nobel Prize–winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.
Our ambition is straightforward: to make scientific excellence accessible to practitioners, by providing rigorous, ethical, and genuinely useful evaluation and analytical tools to help maximize social impact.

Ourmission

By combining scientific rigor with agile operational support, we help organizations fully harness their data and research evidence to strengthen their impact and design programs and public policies grounded in solid evidence.
At EVAL-LAB, we pursue two complementary missions.

First, we conduct rigorous impact evaluations tailored to each organization, taking into account its specific context, resources, and constraints.

Our objective is to equip project leaders with reliable, high-quality evidence to inform their impact strategies and support sound decision-making.

Second, we act as a knowledge broker between academia and the world of practice. Scientific research generates a vast body of insights that are highly valuable for practitioners and policymakers, yet this knowledge often remains difficult to access or apply. Our role is to make it clear, accessible, and actionable—by translating research findings into concrete strategic guidance that can be directly implemented in the field.

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Quentin Daviot

Quentin Daviot is the founder and Director of EVAL-LAB. He is an economist (PhD) specializing in the impact evaluation of education programs.

He spent ten years as a Research Manager at J-PAL Europe, the research lab founded by Nobel Prize–winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), with a focus on impact evaluation in education. 

Quentin has collaborated extensively with ministries, NGOs, and social enterprises around the world. Since 2018, he has served as an impact evaluation expert for the World Bank, and since 2021 he has taught impact evaluation in several Master’s programs at Sciences Po Paris. 

His research interests include student learning and development, teacher training, and the development of psychosocial skills.

Thomas Escande

Thomas Escande is Deputy Director of EVAL-LAB and an expert in impact evaluation. He is also a part-time lecturer at Sciences Po, where he teaches experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation in the Master’s program in International Development.

Before joining EVAL-LAB, Thomas spent seven years at the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department, where he co-developed the Digital Development vertical. He also worked for two years at J-PAL, based in Chennai, India. 

Thomas is a graduate of École Polytechnique, where he earned a Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics. He also holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and International Political Economy from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

His research focuses on poverty, social protection, labor market integration, and health. Thomas has contributed to more than twenty impact evaluations worldwide, across Europe, North and West Africa, and Asia.

Maia Correrella

Maia Correrella is a Research Assistant at EVAL-LAB, where she works on the impact evaluation of an online tutoring program as well as on the evaluation of training programs aimed at combating gender stereotypes in childhood.

Maia is an economist and holds a double Master’s degree from Bocconi University in Milan and Sciences Po Paris.

Luka Prlic

Luka Prlic est assistant de recherche à EVAL-LAB et travaille sur l’évaluation d’impact d’un projet d’éducation aux médias en France, ainsi que sur l’évaluation de programmes d’insertion professionnelle en Europe.

Luka est économiste, diplômé du Master Economic Theory and Econometrics de l’école d’économie de Toulouse (TSE).

Marie Pastiaux

Marie Pastiaux est actuellement étudiante dans le Master Analysis and Policy in Economics (APE) à l’école d’économie de Paris. Marie effectue à EVAL-LAB un stage de césure et travaille sur l’évaluation de programmes d’éducation et de santé en Afrique.

Associate Researchers

Cyprien Batut

Cyprien Batut (PhD) is an economist specializing in labor market issues, including labor market integration, subsidies, and taxation.

He earned a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2020 and is currently Lead Economist at the Institut Avant-Garde, after having spent several years at the French Treasury. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Labor Economics Chair of the Paris School of Economics.

Cyprien advises EVAL-LAB on projects related to labor market policies and has contributed to several missions, including the evaluation of the Territoire Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée program.

Simon Briole

Simon Briole (PhD) is an economist specializing in education, environmental education, and civic education.

Simon a obtenu un doctorat de l’école d’économie de Paris et est actuellement professeur junior à l’Université de Montpellier et affilié au Center for Environmental Economics Montpellier (CEE-M). 

Simon conseille EVAL-LAB sur les projets en lien avec l’éducation à l’environnement et nous avons travaillé ensemble sur plusieurs évaluations : potagers pédagogiques, éducation aux médias ou encore éducation numérique.

Mathilde Col

Mathilde Col (PhD) is an economist specializing in education in Africa, with a particular focus on languages of instruction and learning outcomes.

She collaborates with EVAL-LAB on several education projects related to teacher training and pedagogical practices in North and West Africa, contributing to the design and evaluation of programs aimed at improving teaching quality and student learning.

Alice Danon

Alice Danon is an economist specializing in education. She is currently in the final year of her doctoral studies at Harvard University.

Her research spans a range of education-related topics, including the reform of the French Baccalaureate, support and mentoring programs for refugees in Kenya, and the development of socio-emotional skills in Cambodia.

 

Alice collaborates with EVAL-LAB on several education projects focused on mentoring and student support programs.