Camille Hémet

Welcome to my webpage!

I am a full professor of economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  and at Paris School of Economics. I am also a CEPR research affiliate. Since January 2024, I have been in charge of the "Police and Justice" research group at the Institute for Public Policies.

I obtained my PhD in Economics from Sciences Po in November 2013 before working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economics of Barcelona (University of Barcelona) until August 2015. I was then an assistant professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure from 2015 to 2021.

My research focuses on local social interactions (e.g. neighbor effects) and how they play a role in various dimensions of individual economic activity broadly defined (from schooling decision to housing conditions, labor market, crime and voting outcomes). I am also interested in the economics of crime, not only through the lens of neighborhood effects and spatial inequalities, but also from the perspective of the criminal justice system, where I am particularly interested in the effect of incarceration on long-run economic outcomes.

As part of my interests in urban economics, I am coordinating a pluridisciplinary research group on "Cities, Histroy and Society" at PSE. The program is here.

You can find my CV here (in English, updated in July. 2025) ou ici en français (février 2026).