I am an applied economist whose research spans three areas: long-run growth, income inequality, and gender inequality. My research relies on a mix of applied theory and empirical methods to explore policy-relevant issues.
Some of my recent work uses administrative data to document the extent to which the gender wage gap varies across geographical locations, as well as to examine the dynamics of earnings inequality across individuals and between women and men when we look at lifetime earnings rather than annual earnings. My research on long-run growth puts together novel datasets using historical data to address a variety of questions. I currently focus on the aspects that affected fertility and gender attitudes in 19th century Europe.
I obtained my DPhil at the University of Oxford, I am currently Professor of Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and hold the chair Gender, Growth and Development at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
I have been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (https://www.cae-eco.fr/en/ ), an independent advisory group that reports to the French Prime Minister, and of the European Economy Advisory Group based in Munich ( https://www.cesifo.org/en/european-economic-advisory-group ). I am associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality (https://link.springer.com/journal/10888) and have been council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (http://www.ecineq.org/), of which I am currently president-elect.