I am a Professor at the Economics Department in Sciences Po Paris.
I am the recipient of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project on “Elections, Ecological Inference and Social Capital in Historical Perspective” (ECOSOCIAL) (2026-2030).
I previously hold an ERC Starting Grant for the project PARTICIPATE (“Campaign finance, Information and Influence: A Comprehensive Approach Using Individual-Level Data and Computer Sciences Tools”) (2021-2025) (legal information).
I am a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (Economic History, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics Programs) and at the CESifo Research Network.
I am the leader of the CEPR’s Research and Policy Network on “Media Plurality”.
I received the Best Young French Economist Award in 2023 and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2025.
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789-2022.
Avec Thomas Piketty, Le Seuil, 2023.
English translation: A History of Political Conflict. Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789-2022. Harvard University Press, 2025.
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“Political Bias in the Media. Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020” (with M. Hengel, N. Hervé and C. Urvoy). Revise & Resubmit American Economic Review.
“Political Determinants of the News Market: Novel Data and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India” (with G. Cassan and F. Jensenius). Revise & Resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association.
“Do the Rich Substitute Political Giving for Charitable Giving?” (with M. Guillot). Journal of Public Economics, Accepted. (The paper was previously circulated under the title “Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns.”)
NEW “It Takes Money to Make MPs: New Evidence from 150 Years of British Campaign Spending” (with Edgard Dewitte)
The Journal of Economic History, Accepted.
NEW “Political Inequality“
Annual Review of Economics, 2024, 16: 455-490.
NEW “Firm Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban“ (with Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury and Elisa Mougin)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16(3): 217-56.
NEW “Media Competition and News Diets” (with Charles Angelucci and Michael Sinkinson)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16(2): 62-102.
NEW “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France” (with Anna Dagorret, Saumitra Jha and Pauline Grosjean)
American Economic Review, 2023, 113(7): 1888-1932.
NEW “The Heterogeneous Price of a Vote: Evidence from Multiparty Systems, 1993-2017” (with Yasmine Bekkouche and Edgard Dewitte)
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206.
NEW “The Production of Information in an Online World” (with Nicolas Hervé and Marie-Luce Viaud)
Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87(5): 2126-2164.
NEW “Media Competition, Information Provision and Political Participation: Evidence from French Local Newspapers and Elections, 1944-2014”
Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 85.
NEW “Newspapers in Times of Low Advertising Revenues” (with Charles Angelucci)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11(3): 319-364.
Le prix de la démocratie, Fayard, 2018
Prix Pétrarque de l’Essai France Culture-Le Monde.
English translation: The Price of Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2020.