Sciences-Po Paris & CNRS
Department of Economics
28 rue des Saints-Pères
75006 Paris
claire.montialoux@sciencespo.fr

CURRICULUM VITAE

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences-Po Paris and a CNRS researcher. I am labor economist studying how labor market policies and institutions affect wage inequality, in a global and historical perspective. I am affiliated with the CEPR and IZA. My PhD dissertation was awarded the W.E. Upjohn Institute Award 2020.

TEACHING

EAP: Graduate Labor Market Inequality , Spring 2024
FAC: Graduate Economics of Discrimination (with Ghazala Azmat), Spring 2025, 2024, 2023
MPA: Program Evaluation Methods, Spring 2024, 2023
PP249: Statistics for Program Evaluation,  Fall 2022
PP200B: Introduction to Policy Analysis,  Spring 2021

PUBLICATIONS

WORKING PAPERS

  • What Do (Thousands of) Unions Do?  Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gérard), August 2025.
  • Minimum Wages and Informality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gérard), August 2025.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Revisiting the Workweek Reduction Debate: Lessons from France’s 35-Hour Policy (with Pauline Carry, Elio Nimier-David, Nina Roussille, and Alexandra Roulet).
  • Equalizing the Great Equalizer: The Long-Run Consequences of School Funding Reforms (with Sebastian Otero and Roberto Hsu Rocha).
  • State Unemployment Insurance Rules: a New Long-Run Database (1937-2020)”, with Ellora Derenoncourt and Monica Essig Aberg.