Céline Antonin

Researcher at OFCE and Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po

Area of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Education
  • Labor

Biography

Céline is a researcher at Sciences Po’s OFCE, an adjunct professor at Sciences Po, and an associate researcher at the Collège de France. She is also a member of the French National Productivity Board.

Her academic research focuses on innovation, labor markets, and issues related to human capital and education.

Alongside her academic work, she is the co-author, with Philippe Aghion and Simon Bunel, of The Power of Creative Destruction, which was awarded the Prix Turgot Collectif and the AFSE Essay Book Prize in 2021. More recently, she has developed an interest in crypto-assets and their implications for the monetary and financial order, co-authoring Crypto-assets: A Threat to the Monetary and Financial Order with Nadia Antonin.

Last publications

    • AI

    • Employment

    • Growth

    • Policy

    • 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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    Published

    2022

    • Automation

    • Labor

    • Productivity

    • 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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    • Automation

    • Labor market

    • Productivity

    • 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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    Published

    May 2023

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    • AI

    • Automation

    • Employment

    • Growth

    • Policy

    • Publication

    Artificial Intelligence, Growth and Employment: The Role of Policy

    In this survey paper, we argue that the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on growth and employment depend to a large extent on institutions and policies. We develop a two-fold analysis. In a first section, we survey the most recent literature to show that AI can spur growth by replacing labor by capital, […]

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    Published

    December 2019

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    • AI

    • Climate

    • Energy

    Green AI in Industry: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Water Treatment Sector

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Education

  • PhD, Paris School of Economics
  • ENSAE
  • Sciences Po
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