Xavier Jaravel

Professeur d'Économie à la LSE et Président du Conseil d'Analyses Économiques

Domaine d'expertise

  • Empirical Methods
  • Croissance Inclusive
  • Inventeurs
  • Economie publique

Biographie

Xavier is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and President of the French Council of Economic Analysis.

His research focuses on inflation, innovation, inequality, international trade, and applied econometrics. He studies how economic shocks and public policies affect households, firms, consumers, and inventors, with a broader interest in inclusive growth and the democratization of innovation.

He is also affiliated with CEPR, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, STICERD and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE.

He holds a PhD from Harvard University. He received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics in 2019, the Prix du meilleur jeune économiste in 2021, and the Prix du livre d’économie in 2023 for Marie Curie habite dans le Morbihan.

Dernières publications

    • IA

    • Travail et emploi

    • Croissance

    • Politiques publiques

    • Working Paper

    The Direct and Indirect Effects of Automation on Employment: A Survey of the Recent Literature

    In this article, we survey the recent literature and discuss two contrasting views on the direct and indirectimpacts of automation on employment. A first view predicts that firms that automation reduceemployment (a negative “direct effect”), even if this may ultimately result in new job creations takingadvantage of the lower equilibrium wage induced by job destructions […]

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    2022

    • Automatisation

    • Travail

    • Productivité

    • Publication

    Modern Manufacturing Capital, Labor Demand, and Product Market Dynamics: Evidence from France

    This paper estimates the labor and product market effects of a fall in the cost of investments inmodern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies. Causal effects areestimated with a shift-share IV design leveraging pre-determined supply linkages and produc-tivity shocks. At both the firm and industry levels, we find that capital investments lead tohigher labor demand, […]

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    • IA

    • Travail et emploi

    • Productivité

    • Publication

    How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France

    Using French firm-level data on AI adoption from 2017–2020, we find that, first, firms adopting AI are larger and more productive and skill intensive. Second, difference-in-difference estimates reveal an increase in firm-level employment and sales after AI adoption, suggesting that the induced productivity gains allow firms to grow and outweigh potential displacement effects. Third, occupations […]

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    May 2025

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    • Automatisation

    • Marché du travail

    • Productivité

    • Publication

    The Local Labor Market Effects of Modern Manufacturing Capital: Evidence from France

    Using an event study methodology and comprehensive micro data from the French manufacturing sector, we analyze the local labor market effects of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies. We estimate that commuting zones with higher investments in modern manufacturing capital and automation benefit from higher labor demand, with an increase in both […]

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    May 2023

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    Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

    We present five facts from an experiment on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of transitorytransfers: (1) the one-month MPC on a cash-like transfer is 23%; (2) it is substantially higher (61%) on atransfer administered via a card where the remaining funds expire after three weeks, inconsistent with money fungibility; (3) the consumption response […]

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  • Doctorat, Université d'Harvard
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