Alexandra ROULET

Bio

Member of the Circle of Economists, Alexandra Roulet teaches at INSEAD. She is a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Council for Economic Analysis (CAE). Between June 2022 and September 2023, she served as advisor to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and to Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), she defended her thesis at Harvard University in 2017. His academic publications are published in the leading international journals (Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics). She was awarded the Best Young Economist in 2024. She has also published books for non-academic audiences, including Améliorer les appariements sur le marché du travail at Presses de Sciences Po, which received the 2019 award for best economics book from AFSE (French Association of Economic Sciences), pocket category. As a labour economist, her research has focused on the links between unemployment and health, the effects of unemployment insurance and the gender pay gap. On the latter subject, it has shown that, in addition to differences in working hours, occupations or sectors, other factors come into play, such as the differentiated valuation of commuting time. She is collaborating with France Travail on the evaluation of certain schemes and is also currently working on a review of the 35-hour reform. Its field of competence is wide. For example, she conducted research with Philippe Aghion on the one hand on the effects of creative destruction on subjective well-being, also with Angus Deaton, and on the other hand on the determinants of green innovation. It collaborates with the General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI) on the effects of artificial intelligence on employment.