Job market candidates

Placement officer: Timothée Demont (timothee.demont@univ-amu.fr) and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi (paolo.melindi-ghidi@univ-amu.fr)

Bakhtawar Ali

PhD candidate
I 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.
Fields of interest
Development Economics, Political Economy, and Law and Economics
References
Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia), Sultan Mehmood (New Economics School), Avner Seror (Aix-Marseille University), Marc Sangnier (Aix-Marseille University)
Contact
bakhtawar.ali@univ-amu.fr
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Aliénor Bisantis

PhD candidate
I 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.
Fields of interest
Labor Economics and Gender (primary), Economics of Sciences, Behavioral and Experimental Economics (secondary)
References
Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Patricia Cortés (Boston University), José de Sousa (Paris Panthéon–Assas University), and Roberta Ziparo (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Contact
alienor.bisantis@univ-amu.fr
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Afonso Câmara Leme

Postdoctoral fellow
I 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.
Fields of interest
Labour and Education economics
References
Ana Balcão Reis (Nova SBE), Luis Catela Nunes (Nova SBE), Habiba Djebbari (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Roberta Ziparo (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Contact
afonso.camara-leme@univ-amu.fr
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Laura Daniela Contreras Portela

PhD candidate
My 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.
Fields of interest
Development and Labor Economics
References
Lorenzo Rotunno (IMF), Federico Trionfetti (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Rodrigo Oliveira (UNU-WIDER), Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)
Contact
laura.contreras-portela@univ-amu.fr
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Arnaud Deseau

Postdoctoral fellow
I 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.
Fields of interest
Development, Economic History, Law and Economics
References
David de la Croix (UCLouvain), Cecilia García Peñalosa (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Hélène Latzer (Université Paris 1-Sorbonne)
Contact
arnaud.deseau@univ-amu.fr
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Lucie Giorgi

PhD candidate
I am an applied microeconomist currently studying how institutions and culture shape family formation, labor market outcomes, and life trajectories.
Fields of interest
Applied Microeconomics, Family and Labor Economics, Gender Norms
References
Habiba Djebbari (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Eva Raiber (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Anders Stenberg (Stockholm University)
Contact
lucie.giorgi@univ-amu.fr
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Nastasia Henry

PhD candidate
I am a macroeconomist exploring how heterogeneity across households and countries affects the distributional and aggregate consequences of trade and monetary policies.
Fields of interest
International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
References
Jordi Galí (CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Céline Poilly (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Alain Venditti (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Céline Gimet (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Contact
nastasia.henry@univ-amu.fr
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Natalia Andrea Labrador Bernate

PhD candidate
My 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.
Fields of interest
Development Economics and Household Economics
References
Habiba Djebbari (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Contact
natalia.labrador-bernate@univ-amu.fr
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Santiago Lopez Cantor

PhD candidate
I 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.
Fields of interest
Public Economics, Political Economy, and Microeconomic Theory
References
Renaud Bourlès (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Pierre Boyer (École Polytechnique), Gregory Ponthiere (ENS Rennes)
Contact
santiago-alejandro.lopez-cantor@univ-amu.fr
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Betül Türküm

Postdoctoral fellow
I 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.
Fields of interest
Economics of Education, Labor, Migration, Family Economics
References
Sule Alan (University of Essex), Andrea Ichino (University of Bologna), Eva Raiber (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Contact
betul.turkum@univ-amu.fr
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Ernesto Ugolini

My 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.
Fields of interest
International Trade and Political Economy
References
Renaud Bourlès (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Lorenzo Rotunno (IMF), Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Jan David Bakker (Bocconi University)
Contact
ernesto.ugolini@univ-amu.fr
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