Alexandra Roulet

Associate Professor at INSEAD

Area of Expertise

  • Inclusive Growth
  • Labor
  • Public

Biography

Alexandra is Professor of Economics at INSEAD.

Her research focuses on labor economics, including employment, unemployment, health, gender, and the changing nature of work.

A graduate of École Normale Supérieure in Paris, she earned her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2017. She is the co-winner of the 2017 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, and in 2024 received the Prix du meilleur jeune économiste, awarded by Le Cercle des économistes and Le Monde.

She co-directs with Philippe Aghion the CEPR Research Policy Network on “Growth, Innovation and Social Model in Europe.” She also served as economic advisor to President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from June 2022 to September 2023, and is currently a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis and of the Pension Surveillance Committee.

Last publications

    • Competition

    • Environment

    • Innovation

    • Publication

    Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?

    We investigate the effects of consumers’ environmental concerns and market competition on firms’ decisions to innovate in “clean” technologies. Agents care about their consumption and environmental footprint; firms pursue greener products to soften price competition. Acting as complements, these forces determine R&D, pollution, and welfare. We test the theory using panel data on patents by […]

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    1, March 2023

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    • AI

    • Employment

    • Productivity

    • 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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    Gender differences in job search: trading off commute against wage

    We relate gender differences in willingness to commute to the gender wage gap. Using French administrative data on job search criteria, we first document that unemployed women have a lower reservation wage and a shorter maximum acceptable commute than their male counterparts.We identify indifference curves between wage and commute using the joint distributions of reservation […]

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Education

  • PhD, Harvard University
  • Ecole Normale Supérieure
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