Research

Publications

Electoral Turnovers, with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Pons. Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies. [with Online Appendix] [Replication package]

See also VoxEU column and press articles (Reason, Atlantico, Sciences Humaines, Le Figaro). 

Working papers

Can We Rebuild a City? The Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment

Best student paper at the 2025 European UEA meeting

Ambient Density and Urban Crime: Evidence from Smartphone Data, with Raphaël Lafrogne-Joussier.

Honorable mention at the 2023 European UEA meeting

The Lifecycle of Protests in the Digital Age, with Pierre Boyer, Germain Gauthier, Yves Le Yaouanq, and Benoit Schmutz-Bloch. 

See also IPP column and VoxEU podcast.

Ongoing projects

Incumbency Advantage at the Country Level, with Raphaël Descamps, Benjamin Marx and Vincent Pons.

Municipal Coordination, Zoning, and Inequality in Public Goods Access, with Laura Weiwu.

Data resources

National Elections Database, with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Pons.

A dataset of presidential and parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946.

Publications in French

Introduction aux sciences économiques, with Olivier Gossner and Jean-Baptiste Michau. Éditions Economica.

Initially the introductory economics textbook of Ecole Polytechnique, now published for a broader audience.

Les déterminants de la mobilisation des Gilets Jaunes (translated in English here), with Pierre Boyer, Thomas Delemotte, Germain Gauthier and Benoit Schmutz-Bloch. Revue Economique, 2020, 71, 1, pp. 109-138. 

See also IPP policy brief, op-ed in Le Monde, and press articles (France Inter, Le Figaro, Alternatives Economiques, Le Parisien, Libération).