Projects

This project is extracted from my doctoral thesis. I focus on a phenomenon that has received little attention: why do socio-demographic groups with higher average wages also exhibit greater internal wage dispersion? For instance, while it is well known that men, on average, earn higher wages than women, it is less known that men also experience higher levels of internal inequality. In other words, men's wages are more unequal among themselves than women's wages are among women. This pattern is not only true for gender-based wage inequalities but also extends to other variables such as education level, age groups, and so on. The question is: why? Are the two phenomena related? I claim that they are and identify some of the mechanisms behind this phenomenon. [R&R]

Even though sociological theories claim that individuals' lives are structured by several factors like gender, social class, education and so on, literature shows that individuals' life courses are extremely hard to predict ex ante? In this interdisciplinary collaborative project we explore some of the origins of this unpredictability. [More to come]

In this new project at LABSS, we explore the relationships between inequality and CO2 emissions. Counterintuitively, inequality can have beneficial impact in fighting climate change which suggests that reducing simultaneously inequality and CO2 emissions may turn out to be difficult. We analyze the conditions under which this is possible. [More to come]

In June 2024, I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a symposium on the work of Raymond Boudon (an important French sociologist of the 20th century whose work is often unknown or misunderstood), and its lessons for contemporary sociology (see the program here), featuring an impressive panel of speakers. I discussed formal models in Boudon's work. I wrote an article based on this presentation, which will be published as a book chapter in a forthcoming collective volume at Sorbonne University Press. [Forthcoming]