Current Positions

Research fields Economic history, labor economics, political economy, economics of culture.

Funded projects

  • ObARDI (PI) ANR-20-CE38-0015 (01-2021/01-2026)
  • DeNazDB (Co-PI) ANR-21-FRAL-0005 (01-2022/05-2026)


PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018

Working Papers

(2024). The Road to Rebellion: Rural Uprisings and State-Building in the Run-Up to the French Revolution. TSE Working Paper 24-1557. Updated version: September 2024.

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(2024). Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France. CEPR Discussion Paper 18737. Updated version: August 2024.

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(2023). Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline. CEPR Discussion Paper 18607. Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy.

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Journal Articles

(2024). The Mosque Nearby. Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France. Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming.

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(2024). The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 49-60.

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(2024). The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France. Explorations in Economic History, 93, 101588.

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(2023). Morts Pour la France: A Database of French Fatalities of the Great War. Explorations in Economic History, 90, 101550.

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(2022). The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), 1209-1241.

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(2021). Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940). Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 54(4), 189-207.

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(2018). Decomposing Culture. An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household. Review of Economics of the Household, 16(4), 879-909.

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(2017). Unlikely Democrats. Economic Elite Uncertainty under Dictatorship and Support for Democratization. American Journal of Political Science, 61(3), 624-41.

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(2013). Do Female/Male Distinctions in Language Matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas. Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), 495-8.

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Book Chapters

(2024). A Data Paper in the Social Sciences: Why, For Whom, and How? [Un data paper en SHS : pourquoi, pour qui, comment ?]. In C. Kosmopoulos and J. Schopfel (Eds.), Publier, partager, réutiliser les données de la recherche : les data papers et leurs enjeux, forthcoming. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion.

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(2016). Language and Gender Roles among Immigrants to the U.S. A Historical Perspective. In P. Paolini (Ed.), I Mondi Delle Donne, 165-79. Roma: Edi Cusano.

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Conference Proceedings

(2022). Graphes de connaissances pour représenter et analyser l'évolution des territoires en Histoire. In Nicolas Lasolle, Olivier Bruneau, and Jean Lieber (Eds.), Actes des journées humanités numériques et Web sémantique, 23-37. Nancy, France.

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(2016). Migration As A Window Into The Coevolution Between Language And Behavior. In S.G. Roberts et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG 11), 1-8.

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Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

(2013). The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles. Berkeley Economic History Laboratory Working Paper 2013-03.

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Dissertation

(2018). The Legacy of the Missing Men: World War I and Female Labor in France Over a Century. Defended at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Committee: Richard Hornbeck (chair), Steven D. Levitt, Derek A. Neal, and James A. Robinson.

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