Louis Sirugue
Doctorant
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Campus Jourdan – 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
Bâtiment Oïkos, 5e étage, bureau 70
louis.sirugue psemail.eu
Groupes de recherche :
Travail et économie publique
- Microeconométrie
- Mobilités économiques et sociales
- Inégalités de revenus et de patrimoines
Directeur de thèse : Piketty Thomas
Codirecteur : Simon Patrick
Année académique d'inscription : 2020/2021
Titre de la thèse : Inequality of opportunity across origins in France and the implications of collecting ethnic data
Affiliations
- PSE · Paris School of Economics
- CNRS · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- EHESS · Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- ICM · Institut Convergences Migrations
Research interests:
- Intergenerational mobility
- Discrimination
- Residential segregation
An introduction to my PhD thesis:
By OECD standards, France is characterized by a relatively low level of intergenerational income mobility. As immigrants tend to face more precarious socio-economic conditions than natives, this intergenerational inertia ranks among the main plausible causes of the ethnic gap. But despite similar educational investments, second-generation immigrants consistently earn less even conditionally on parental income. I investigate the sources of this inequality of opportunity focusing on the potential role played by spatial segregation. I rely on an algorithm that infers individuals' genealogical origins based on their last name to estimate segregation indices that are precise enough so that their variation can be used for causal identification.