Research in progress

Urbanisation in France over the last 250 years, series of projects with Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Clément Gorin, and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud. Measuring land use changes by (machine) learning from historical maps, Emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities, Structural transformation and urbanisation.

How to Define an African City? Comparing Recently Developed Methods of Defining Urban Areas, with Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts and Benjamin Stewart.

Estimating Urban Poverty consistently across Countries, with Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts and Benjamin Stewart.

Housing costs of agglomeration and real income changes from migration in China, with Ziyang Chen, Sylvie Démurger, and Xiuyan Liue.

Real income inequality and within- and between-city sorting, with Mylène Feuillade, Laurent Gobillon, Aurélie Sotura, and Tanguy van Ypersele.

Aggregate productivity gains from agglomeration economies, with Clémence Berson, Laurent Gobillon, and Aurélie Sotura.