Placement officers : Timothée Demont (timothee.demont@univ-amu.fr) and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi (paolo.melindi-ghidi@univ-amu.fr)
Bakhtawar Ali
PhD studentI am a development economist with an interest in political economy. I use microdata and modern empirical methods to study how law, politics, and norms shape institutions and economic development.
Aliénor Bisantis
PhD studentI am an applied microeconomist and my research lies at the intersection of labour economics and the economics of science, with a particular focus on gender issues. More specifically, I study the mechanisms that generate gender gaps in academic and competitive environments.
Afonso Câmara Leme
Postdoctoral fellowI am an applied microeconomist focusing on Labour and Education economics. In my research I explore how policies affecting education and labour market institutions shape firms’ behaviour, workers’ outcomes, and the allocation of human capital.
Laura Daniela Contreras Portela
PhD studentMy research examines how place-based policies, trade, and technological change affect firms, workers, and households in developing economies. I use geocoded microdata and empirical and structural approaches to study how heterogeneity shapes economic and social outcomes.
Arnaud Deseau
Postdoctoral fellowI am a development economist studying the determinants of long-run economic prosperity through a historical perspective. I combine tools from applied econometrics and growth theory with original datasets that I assemble from archival and historical records.
Lucie Giorgi
PhD studentI am an applied microeconomist currently studying how institutions and culture shape family formation, labor market outcomes, and life trajectories.
Nastasia Henry
PhD studentI am a macroeconomist exploring how heterogeneity across households and countries affects the distributional and aggregate consequences of trade and monetary policies.
Natalia Andrea Labrador Bernate
PhD studentMy research analyzes how climate change, through more frequent and extreme weather events, exacerbates gender gaps in paid and unpaid work in low- and middle-income countries.
Santiago Lopez Cantor
Associate facultyI am a microeconomic theorist working at the intersection of public economics and political economy. My primary research interests are the interactions between public policies and inequalities, mediated by social norms and behavioral biases.
Betül Türküm
Postdoctoral fellowI am an applied economist working at the intersection of education, labor, migration, and family economics. I apply quasi-experimental methods to large-scale observational data and design and implement field surveys to identify causal relationships with significant policy relevance.
Ernesto Ugolini
Associate facultyMy research examines how globalization reshapes economic and political outcomes through its interaction with domestic institutions and geography. I combine quantitative modeling with applied econometric methods.










