Morgan Raux

Abstract: This paper investigates the enduring overrepresentation of aristocratic families in elite higher education. It analyses 269,917 graduates from ten leading French grandes écoles between 1911 and 2015, using surname-based indicators of nobility and a linkage to birth records. Despite a decline over time, descendants of aristocrats remain nine times more likely to gain admission than the rest of the population, even two centuries after the French Revolution. While historically most concentrated at Sciences Po Paris, their presence has converged across institutions, though business schools now exhibit the highest overrepresentation. The analysis also reveals a gender gap, with noble men benefiting more from this educational advantage. These findings highlight the persistence of historical hierarchies beyond the end of legal privileges, as noble families convert symbolic capital into academic credentials, ensuring continued access to elite status

De l'avantage d'être de noble lignage pour intégrer une (très) grande école en France (1891-1995)

Encore un travail incroyable de @stephanebenveniste.com !

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Call for papers: CREST – IFAU Workshop on Evaluating Labor Market Policies: Methods and Results - CREST

🚀 Call for Papers: CREST-IFAU Workshop on Labor Market Policy Evaluation 📊

🗓 June 12-13, 2025 – Paris (Palaiseau)
🎤 Keynote: Stéphane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)

📅 Submit by: March 10, 2025
📩 Send papers (PDF) to: workshops@ensae.fr

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📢 We’re Hiring! 2 Doctoral Researchers – Labor Econ

💡 Interested in how global megatrends shape labor markets?
📈 Background in Econ/ STEM?
🖥️ Love working with large-scale data?

If 3xYes, then join my Research Group @ihs.ac.at in the heart of Vienna! 🙂

Apply by March 7: lnkd.in/egzuWgmC #EconSky

Our @voxeu.org column on the Contribution of International Students to the creation of US Start-ups is just out. This piece describes our new @nberpubs.bsky.social WP co-written with Michel Beine and Giovanni Peri. www.nber.org/system/files...

Our @voxeu.org column on the Contribution of International Students to the creation of US Start-ups is just out. This piece describes our new @nberpubs.bsky.social WP co-written with Michel Beine and Giovanni Peri. www.nber.org/system/files...

Roughly 300,000 foreign-born students annually obtained visas to enrol in US graduate programmes over the last decade. This column finds that the small percentage of foreign students who remained in the US after earning master’s degrees made outsized contributions to the creation of new startups. As startups and new firms are engines of economic growth and technological innovation, the authors recommend reducing enrolment barriers while increasing access to financial grants and support for those who create local startups, and expanding policies that allow graduates to stay in the US after graduation.

The small % of foreign students who stayed in the US after earning master’s degrees made outsized contributions to the creation of new startups. Reducing enrolment barriers & increasing financial grants will aid #innovation.
M Beine, G Peri, @morganraux.bsky.social
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#EconSky

📢 Call for Poster Sessions for the 4th Migration and Family Economics Workshop, hosted by IÉSEG School of Management in

📍 Paris, on June 16-17, 2025.
Great opportunity for PhD students and postdocs.

📌 Deadline: April 13, 2025.

#📉📈EconSky please repost

With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the

3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

A higher share of foreign students in US master's programs substantially increased the start-up creation rate of the cohort, from Michel Beine, Giovanni Peri, and Morgan Raux https://www.nber.org/papers/w33314

Check it out! (ungated here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y1omw...)

Kirill, Xavier, and I tried hard to make this useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and even those who don't know they that they are users

How does digitalization reshape labor opportunities? We model occupations as multidimensional skill bundles, capturing its dual impact: shifts in demand and evolving skill distances.

New IZA WP with A. Dupuy and @morganraux.bsky.social 👉 docs.iza.org/dp17535.pdf

#EconResearch #FutureOfWork

Thanks a lot Michael!

Hi Michael, could you add me, please ?

Our latest research with Toman Barsbai and Christoph Winter is now forthcoming in JOLE! 📄

We explore how labor market conditions at arrival shape migrants’ integration, showing that arriving during recessions pushes migrants into lower-paying jobs—a persistent effect lasting over 10 years.

🔥🔥🔥Are you pissed about Armin Falk heading IZA? If yes, consider reading/sharing/signing this letter. To be clear I didn’t organize this letter, and I’m so pleased that instead of me it was more senior economists (some male) who stepped up to help with this effort. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me.

Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.

Hello Bluesky community! I’m starting to migrate from that other, messed up place. Please connect if we followed each other there, or if you want to discuss all things migration, global business, and anything else interesting.

Announcing the 2024 Migration & Organizations Conference, May 2024 at the Wharton School

Submissions due February 15—> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PhD students can apply for support—> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@profzeke.bsky.social #EconSky

The Job Market season of the online junior Migration seminar is here. Nice line up of presenters. 👇