Alexandra ROULET

Bio

A member of the Cercle des économistes, Alexandra Roulet teaches at INSEAD. She is a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (CAE). Between June 2022 and September 2023, she served as macroeconomics and public policy advisor to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), she defended her thesis at Harvard University in 2017. His academic publications appear in the best international journals (Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics). She received the Best Young Economist Award in 2024.

She has also published books for non-academic audiences, notably Améliorer les appariements sur le marché du travail at the Presses de Sciences Po, which received the 2019 award for best economics book from AFSE (French Association of Economic Sciences), in the pocket category.

As a labor economist, his research has focused on the links between unemployment and health, the effects of unemployment insurance, and the wage gap between men and women. On the latter subject, she demonstrated that, in addition to differences in working time, occupations or sectors, other factors come into play such as the differentiated valuation of commuting time. She collaborates with France Travail on the evaluation of certain devices and is also currently working on an assessment of the 35-hour reform.

His field of competence is broad. For example, she conducted research with Philippe Aghion on the effects of creative destruction on subjective well-being, also with Angus Deaton, and on the determinants of green innovation. It is collaborating with the General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI) on the effects of artificial intelligence on employment.