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. neighborhood 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. 

NEWS: 

Since January 2024, I have been in charge of the "Police and Justice" research group at the Institute for Public Policies.

Opinion piece related to our work on the long-run effects of incarceration in Denmark, in Les Echos, June 2023 (in French)

Podcast on Cities and Social Cohesion, providing a general overview of some of my research projects, dedicated to a large audience.