A New Academic Year, New Faces at CREST
Each year, CREST and the Department of Economics at IP Paris welcome a new cohort of researchers who bring fresh perspectives, curiosity, and energy to our community. This fall, we are delighted to welcome new researchers, PhD students, and visiting scholars from around the world.
Their arrival marks an important moment in the life of our laboratory: an opportunity to grow, to renew exchanges across disciplines, and to continue building a dynamic and diverse research environment. Whether they join us for a few months or several years, these newcomers contribute to the intellectual richness and collaborative spirit that define CREST and the Department of Economics at IP Paris.
We are pleased to introduce the researchers joining CREST this year, each bringing their unique background and expertise to one of our two research areas: economics and sociology.
Researchers
Philippe Coulangeon is a CNRS Research Director, affiliated with the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at Sciences Po Paris.
His work lies at the intersection of cultural sociology and the sociology of social inequalities. He studies the stratification of cultural practices and tastes, the dynamics between mass and elite culture, artistic professions, and the democratization of culture. More recently, he has incorporated environmental issues into his analyses.
Fanny Landaud is a CNRS researcher and an IZA Research Fellow since 2019.
Her research focuses on applied microeconomics — particularly labor, education, family, and health economics — with a special interest in the determinants and consequences of socioeconomic and gender inequalities in education and the labor market.
Enrico Rubolino was a researcher at the University of Lausanne.
His research focuses on public and labor economics, with a particular emphasis on behavioral responses to tax policy, gender inequality, intergenerational mobility, and educational outcomes.
Clémentine Van Effenterre was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto.
Her research lies at the intersection of labor economics, applied microeconomics, and political economy. She studies how norms, institutions, and policies shape labor market outcomes — focusing on topics such as maternal employment, gender gaps in science and technology, and how having daughters influences political attitudes. She also hosts the InequaliTalks podcast, dedicated to economics and inequality.
PhDs
This year, we are welcoming a new cohort of PhD students who are beginning their research journey within our vibrant academic community.
Sixteen new PhD students are joining our department across our two research areas.
Fourteen will join the Economics team and two the Sociology team.
Invited researchers
The IP Paris Department of Economics is also hosting several visiting researchers this year for research stays that foster international collaboration.
Yang Chen (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) is joining the Economics group to work with Julien Combe on microeconomic theory and matching theory.
Simon Luck (University of Bologna, Italy) is joining the Sociology group with Étienne Ollion to work on using natural language processing to study the role of news media in political representation and decision-making processes.
Jules Verin (ENS Lyon, France) will work with Bertrand Garbinti in Economics on wealth accumulation, life cycle, and taxation.
Väinö Yrjänäinen (Uppsala University, Sweden) is joining Étienne Ollion’s team to work on the use of word embeddings and transformer models in computational social sciences.