Publications and working papers

State of the art: Economic development through the lens of paintings (with C. Gorin and S. Heblich)—paper—slides—press—website, R&R, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Community-building and societal leaders: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine (with L. Panza)—paper, R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics.

The price of distinction (with R. Barnichon)—paper—website, R&R, Economic Journal.

The distributional consequences of trade: Evidence from the grain invasion (with S. Heblich and S. Redding)—paper—appendix—presentation, R&R, Journal of Political Economy.

Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China (with S. Heblich, M. Seror and H. Xu)—paper—appendix, forthcoming, The Review of Economic Studies.

Cool cities: The value of urban trees (with L. Han, S. Heblich and C. Timmins)—paper—appendix, forthcoming, American Economic Review: Insights.

The pick of the crop: Agricultural practices and clustered networks in village economies (with A. Groeger)—paper—voxdev, Journal of the European Economic Association, 24(1): 271–310, 2026.

The dynamics of informality and fiscal policy under sovereign risk (with F. Pappada)—paper—vox, Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 4(1): 97–134, 2026.

Migrants and firms: Evidence from China (with C. Imbert, M. Seror and Y. Zhang)—paper—appendix, American Economic Review, 112 (6): 1885–1914, 2022.

Menu of insurance for the unemployed (with R. Barnichon)—paper—appendix—replication, The Review of Economic Studies, 89(1): 118–141, 2022.

East side story: Historical pollution and persistent neighborhood segregation (with S. Heblich and A. Trew)—paper—press, Journal of Political Economy, 109(5): 1508–1552, 2021.

Environmental risk and the anchoring role of mobility rigidities (with R. Coulomb)—paper—appendix—replication, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(3): 509–542, 2021.

Under-employment and the trickle-down of unemployment (with R. Barnichon)—paper—appendix—replication, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11(2): 40–78, 2019.

War, migration and the origins of the Thai sex industry (with A. Brodeur and W. Lekfuangfu)—paper—appendix, Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(5): 1540–1576, 2018.

Protests and trust in the state: Evidence from African countries (with M. Sangnier)—paper—appendix, Journal of Public Economics, 152: 55–67, 2017.

Austerity and tax compliance (with F. Pappada)—paper, European Economic Review, 100: 506–524, 2017.

Star Wars: the empirics strike back (with A. Brodeur, M. Lé and M. Sangnier)—paper—appendix—replication—corrigendum, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(1): 1–32, 2016.

Internal labor migration as a shock coping strategy: Evidence from a typhoon (with A. Groeger)—paper—replication, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(2): 123–153, 2016.

Work in progress

Floating population: Migration with(out) family and Chinese economic development (with C. Imbert, J. Monras and M. Seror)—paper, CEPR Discussion Paper.

The death and life of Great British cities (with S. Heblich, D. Nagy and A. Trew)—paper—voxdev—slides, NBER Working Paper.

Invited contribution(s)

Urban economics in a historical perspective: Recovering data with machine learning (with P. Combes and L. Gobillon)—paper, Regional Science and Urban Economics (special edition), 2022.