2023 AFSE PhD Prize - Award and special mentions
The 2023 AFSE PhD Prize has been awarded to Mathilde Munoz (PhD 2022), post-doctoral fellow at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California, Berkeley and the special mentions have been awarded “ex-aequo” to Lydia Assouad (PhD 2022), Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics, and to Yohan Renard, lecturer and researcher at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL and a member of the joint research unit Laboratoire d’Economie de Dauphine (LEDA). Yohan Renard will join the Paris School of Economics as a post-doctoral researcher in Spring 2023.
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Mathilde Munoz is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley. She will be joining the faculty of UC Berkeley in July 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Economics.
Her thesis, entitled “Essays on taxation and international worker mobility in Europe” and conducted under the supervision of Thomas Piketty (PSE, EHESS, WIL) focuses on the interaction between globalization and redistribution, by studying, with a special focus on Europe, how trade and migration flows respond to international differences in personal taxes and labor market regulations, and by estimating how those flows shape inequalities within and across countries.
Lydia Assouad is now an Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, department of International Development. In 2024, she will also become an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of development economics, political economy and economic history, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
Her thesis, entitled “Essays on the Political Economy of Development of the Middle East”, has been conducted under the supervision of Thomas Piketty (PSE, EHESS, WIL) and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE, EHESS).
Yohan Renard is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL, and a member of the joint research unit Laboratoire d’Economie de Dauphine (LEDA). He will join the Paris School of Economics as a post-doctoral researcher in Spring 2023. His research covers topics in applied microeconomics at the intersection of health and development economics. It explores several issues such as access to healthcare, determinants of human capital formation, as well as the health and economic consequences of the construction of infrastructures.
His thesis, entitled “Improving Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa; Three essays in Microeconometrics”, has been conducted under the supervision of Marta Menéndez and Elodie Djemaï, Associate Professors at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL.