Thomas Le Barbanchon
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Thomas Le Barbanchon is an Associate Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi. Previously he worked as an economist at the French Statistical Institute and at the Ministry of Labor.
His research is in labor economics, with a focus on job search and matching, gender studies, discrimination and social insurance. He is the author of numerous articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, among others. Between 2021 and 2024 he is Elected board member of The Review of Economic Studies and Associate Editor of The Journal of the European Economic Association.
He got a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2012, a M.Sc. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He was Visiting Associate Professor (IRS) at Princeton University and at Harvard University.
Latest publications
Job search, unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies in Handbook of Labor Economics - Vol.5
Christian Dustmann, Thomas Lemieux (Eds),Elsevier, chap. 6, pp.435-580, 2024
The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, vol.15, no. 1, pp.383-410
Electoral Competition, Voter Bias, and Women in Politics
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, vol.20, no. 1, pp.352-394
Job search during the COVID-19 crisis
Journal of Public Economics, 2021, vol.194, pp.104349
Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute against Wage
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, vol.136, no. 1, pp.381-426
Unemployment insurance and reservation wages: Evidence from administrative data
Journal of Public Economics, 2019, vol.171, pp.1-17
Grants & Honors
Bocconi Impact Award for the research "The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits" with Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2022