PhD program : Program
Program overview
PhD students are required to take doctoral courses at the beginning of their program. These courses are offered by PSE’s thematic groups and allow students to reach the frontiers of knowledge in their research field.
Each week, and throughout the duration of their PhD, students must attend research seminars. These seminars provide opportunities to present their work and engage with visiting researchers at PSE.
PhD students also have the opportunity to teach in one of PSE’s founding institutions and to conduct research stays at international universities through PSE’s mobility program.
In addition to regular supervision by their PhD advisor, students form an individual supervisory committee that meets annually to assess the scientific progress of their research and the conditions under which the thesis is being pursued.
PhD Defenses
- March 21, 2025
Jean-Laurent Cadorel
Essays in Economic and Financial History
Under the supervision of Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur and Angelo Riva
- March 12, 2025
Pierre Uginet
Multidisciplinary Insights into Environmental and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Asia: Quantitative Assessments of Scale Dependencies and Interactions
Under the supervision of Katheline Schubert and Daniel Schertzer
- March 4, 2025
Jeanne Bomare
Essays on International Taxation, Transparency and Offshore Real Estate
Under the supervision of Gabriel Zucman
- February 14, 2025
Monika Sztajerowska
Multinational Activity, International Agreements and Domestic Policies
Under the supervision of Anne-Célia Disdier
- December 20, 2024
Laurence Vardaxoglou
The Effect of Misinformation on Public Opinion and Behaviour
Under the supervision of Nicolas Jaquemet
- December 18, 2024
Léonard Bocquet
Essais sur la Dynamique de Réallocation des Travailleurs
Under the supervision of Agnès Bénassy-Quéré and Lionel Fontagné
- December 17, 2024
Rosanne Logeart
Lobbying Dynamics and Influence
Under the supervision of Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline
- December 17, 2024
Nicolas Hatem
Decentralized Energy Supply: Essays on Public Policies for the Energy Transition
Under the supervision of Carine Staropoli
- December 10, 2024
Sofiia Mun
Uncertainty Beyond Risk: Experimental Essays on Decision-Making Under Ambiguity
Under the supervision of Nicolas Jacquemet and Frédéric Koessler
- December 6, 2024
Kelsey Wright
Three Essays on “Big Push” Programs in Development Economics
Under the supervision of Karen Macours
- December 4, 2024
Simon Bunel
Essays on the impact of innovation and technical progress
Under the supervision of Philippe Aghion
- December 2, 2024
Matthew Fischer-Post
Essays on Inequality and Fiscal Policy
Under the supervision of Facundo Alvaredo
- November 29, 2024
Louis Sirugue
Intergenerational Mobility Across Origins in France
Under the supervision of Thomas Piketty
- November 15, 2024
Eléonore Richard
Mesurer la pauvreté : du revenu au ressenti. Contributions aux approches subjective et multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté
Under the supervision of Eric Maurin
- October 4, 2024
Côme Cheritel
Essays on climate change, uncertainty and population dynamics
Under the supervision of Katheline Schubert and Raya Muttarak
- October 1, 2024
Xavier Koch
Environmental Policy and Corporate Initiatives for Green Technological Change
Under the supervision of Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline
- September 20, 2024
David Leite
Essays in Public Economics
Under the supervision of Antoine Bozio
Kentaro Asai
Essays on Empirical Labor Economics
Under the supervision of Thomas Breda
Claire Lepault
Health Effects of Water Pollution and Heat Stress in India
Under the supervision of Hélène Ollivier and Philippe Quirion
- September 19, 2024
Thiago Scarelli
Occupational Choices and Liquidity Constraints in Developing Countries
Under the supervision of David Margolis
- September 3, 2024
Juan Camilo Medellin
Essays on Foreign Currency Hedging and Firm Dynamics
Under the supervision of Agnès Bénassy Quéré
- July 1, 2024
Zhexun Mo
A Few Essays on the Political Economy of Inequalities in Africa and China
Under the supervision of Denis Cogneau
- June 27, 2024
Tom Raster
Essays in Historical Political Economy : Trade, Innovation, and Forced Labor
Under the supervision of Thomas Piketty
Cécile Bonneau
Access to selective higher education : Income inequalities, financial barriers, gender gaps
Under the supervision of Julien Grenet and Gabrielle Fack
- June 25, 2024
Alvaro Zuniga Cordero
Three Essays on Income Inequality in Costa Rica
Under the supervision of Ariell Reshef
- June 12, 2024
Antonela Miho
Three Essays in Applied Economics : Media, Culture and Technology
Under the supervision of Ekaterina Zhuravaskaya
- June 7, 2024
Antoine Sigwalt
Fiscal Matters in the Euro Area : Sovereign Debt, Risk, and Fiscal Strategies
Under the supervision of Gilles Saint Paul and Axelle Ferrière
Marion Richard
Essays on conflict and spatial inequality in the Sahel
Under the supervision of Flore Gubert and William Pariente
- May 22, 2024
Duncan Webb
Essays in Development Economics
Under the supervision of Karen Macours and Suanna Oh
- April 22, 2024
Arthur Heim
Social Investment and the Changing Face of Poverty : Essays on the Design and Evaluation of Social Investment Policies in France
Under the supervision of Marc Gurgand
- March 29, 2024
Yuchen Huang
Meritocracy and Redistribution
Under the supervision of Claudia Senik
- January 29, 2024
Laure Goursat
Essays on Matching with Limited Information and Bounded Rationality
Under the supervision of Philippe Jehiel and Francis Bloch
- December 21, 2023
Andréa Renk
Essays on Institutional Change in India and Nepal
Under the supervision of Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann and Jean-Marie Baland
- December 12, 2023
Eric Vansteenberghe
Three Essays in Banking and Insurance
Under the supervision of Catherine Bobtcheff
Ismaël Yacoubou Djima
Three Essays on Development in Mali.Integrated Data Analysis of Agricultural Productivity, Caste-Based Migration, and Colonial Military Forced Labor Legacie
Under the supervision of Karen Macours
Etienne Madinier
Essays in political economy of media and social media
Under the supervision of Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
- December 8, 2023
Victor Cordonnier
Trois essais en Economie Agricole et Familiale en Afrique Sub-Saharienne
Under the supervision of Sylvie Lambert
- December 6, 2023
Amory Gethin
Essays on the Political Economy of Global Inequality
Under the supervision of Thomas Piketty
- November 7, 2023
Simon Lowe
Essays in empirical economics
Under the supervision of Luc Behaghel and Thomas Breda
- November 2, 2023
Ander Iraizoz Olaetxea
Essays in Empirical Public Economics
Under the supervision of Antoine Bozio
- October 13, 2023
Milena Suarez Castillo
Air pollution and health : causal approaches and inequalities
Under the supervision of Laurent Gobillon
- October 2, 2023
Christian Abele
Asymmetric Information in International Food Trade
Under the supervision of Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann