Milena Suarez Castillo

I am a Data Scientist/Econometrician at the Lab Santé (Drees - Statistics for the French Ministry of Health), affiliated to the CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics). I defended my PhD (Paris School of Economics) in october 2023 in environmental and health economics, under the supervision of Laurent Gobillon (Manuscrit available here).

I am also Deputy Head of the Lab Santé - we recruit data scientists, statisticians and welcome interns: if you are interested in health, data, datascience, statistics and/or econometrics and fluent in French, please do not hesitate to contact me at milena.suarez-castillo at sante.gouv.fr

Check out some nice initiatives from colleagues: UtilitR; Datalab - for the datascience public community

Publications

Air Pollution and Children Health Inequalities, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, with David Benatia and Christine Le Thi

WP Insee 2024 WP medrxiv 2024

Press/Policy coverage : Plus exposés à la pollution de l’air, les jeunes enfants des ménages modestes, plus fragiles, sont les plus affectés. Etudes et Résultats de la Drees- Libération, Le Figaro, Les Echos, La Croix, Médiapart, Le Parisien, l’Humanité, TF1, Sud Ouest Radio Aviva, La Marseillese

Code: git.drees.fr/drees_code_public/etudes/er1292

Air pollution, viral spread and health outcomes evidence from strikes in France., with Alexandre Godzinski, Health Economics, 2024, 1–43, https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4884

Press/Policy coverage : La pollution de l’air due au trafic automobile augmente les admissions aux urgences pour maladies respiratoires. Insee Analyses - Franceinfo, Les Echos, Sud Ouest, Alternatives Economiques, BFM TV, Rapport du Sénat “La gratuité totale des transports collectifs : fausse bonne idée ou révolution écologique et sociale des mobilités ?"

Temporally Consistent Present Population from Mobile Phone Signaling Data for Official Statistics with François Sémécurbe, Cezary Ziemlicki, Tom Seimandi and Haixuan Xavier Tao, Journal of Official Statistics, vol.39, no.4, 2023, pp.535-570. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0025

Figure 1: Une journée à Paris.

How Do Wage Setting Institutions Affect Wage Rigidity? Evidence from French Micro Data, Labour Economics, 2022, with Erwan Gautier and Sébastien Roux, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102232.

Disentangling the effects of air pollutants with many instruments Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2021, with Alexandre Godzinski

Selon les polluants atmosphériques, les effets immédiats sur les admissions aux urgences et sur la mortalité diffèrent. Insee Analyses

Code: github.com/milena-git/disentangling-pollutants-many-instruments

Fuzzy matching on big-data: an illustration with scanner and crowd-sourced, with Lino Galiana. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT ‘22).

Vaccine-induced and naturally-acquired protection against Omicron and Delta symptomatic infection and severe COVID-19 outcomes, France, December 2021 to January 2022 Euro Surveill. 2022;27(16) with Hamid Khaoua and Noémie Courtejoie

Vaccine effectiveness and duration of protection against symptomatic infections and severe Covid-19 outcomes in adults aged 50 years and over, France, January to mid-December 2021. Global Epidemiology 2022, p.100076. with Hamid Khaoua and Noémie Courtejoie

The French official statistics strategy: Combining signaling data from various mobile network operators for documenting COVID-19 crisis effects on population movements and economic outlook Data & Policy 2021, avec Elise Coudin et Mathilde Poulhes

What Makes a Good High School? Measuring School Effects beyond the Average Economics and Statistics n° 528-529 - 2021 with Pauline Givord

Rigidités nominales et réelles des salaires en France: quel rôle des accords collectifs? Revue Française d’Economie, Volume 34, pp. 45-89 2019, with Erwan Gautier and Sébastien Roux

On social optimal routing under selfish response IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2018 with Walid Krichene and Alexandre Bayen

Policy

Estimation de l’efficacité vaccinale contre les formes graves de Covid-19, Dossier de la Drees 90 with Hamid Khaoua and Noémie Courtejoie

Empirical assessment of principles of access and scenarios with MNOs Eurostat Work Package, 2021 avec Mathilde Poulhes et Benoît Loutrel

Retour partiel des mouvements de population avec le déconfinement Insee Analyse n°54, 2021 avec Lino Galiana, François Sémécurbe, Élise Coudin, Marie-Pierre de Bellefon

Lockdown movement DataViz InseeFrLab Github

Contribution au rapport d'évaluation du CICE. Documents de travail Insee G2018/03; G2018/11 and France Stratégie Reports, avec Rémi Monin

Le rôle des accords collectifs sur la dynamique des salaires Insee références Emploi, chômage, revenus du travail, 2018 avec Erwan Gautier et Sébastien Roux

Effets du crédit d’impôt pour la compétitivité et l’emploi sur les prix pratiqués par les entreprises, Insee références Les entreprises en France 2018 avec Rémi Monin

• 2025/03/11 The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management publishes “Air pollution and children health inequalities”
• 2024/08/06 Health Economics publishes “Air pollution, viral spread and health outcomes”
• 2024/02/08 The working Paper “Air Pollution and Children’s Health Inequalities” is on medrxiv
• 2024/01/04 The Drees publishes a summary of “Air Pollution and Children’s Health Inequalities” in French
• 2023/12/11 Publication au Journal of Official Statistics
• 2023/10/13 PhD Defense
• 2023/09/01 CV
• 2022/09/08 Fuzzy Matching of Scanner Data and Open Food Facts