Pauline Grosjean
School of Economics - PhD Economics, Toulouse School of Economics | MA Economics and Finance, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Cachan | BA Economics and BA History, University Paris X Nanterre
Pauline Grosjean is a Scientia Professor in the School of Economics at UNSW,a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at Toulouse School in Economics in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her research studies the historical and dynamic context of economic development. In particular, she focuses on how culture and institutions interact and shape long-term economic development and individual behaviour. She has published research that studies the historical process of a wide range of factors that are crucial for economic development, including cooperation and violence, trust, gender norms, support for democracy and for market reforms, immigration, preferences for education, and conflict.
From This Author
Five economic policy priorities for Australia’s next government
As Australia heads toward its next election, key economic policy reforms will be crucial to financial stability, productivity growth, and global trade competitiveness
Will purges make America great again?
There are important historical lessons for the US administration in its mission to purge US government ranks, writes UNSW Business School's Pauline Grosjean
Should we arrest social media CEOs or regulate their platforms?
Four economists have dismantled the mechanisms that lead young people to use social networks, even against their will, writes UNSW Business School’s Pauline Grosjean
Slow gender gap progress puts focus on childcare support
Childcare support and access are crucial to closing the gender pay gap, and policies focusing solely on parental leave are insufficient to realise pay equity
When innovation reinforces gender and salary inequalities
The ecosystem of entrepreneurial innovation accentuates the differences in income between men and women, writes UNSW Business School’s Pauline Grosjean
How pay transparency laws have reduced salaries by 2 per cent
Good intentions, unintended consequences? UNSW Business School’s Pauline Grosjean examines why pay transparency can have perverse effects
Robotisation benefits productivity and all jobs at pioneering firms
Research into robotisation and employment shows that technical innovation benefits pioneering companies over competitors, writes UNSW Business School’s Pauline Grosjean
Will pressures on workers mean more union strikes?
With education, aged care, and health workers joining the ranks of those protesting for better work conditions, is there a renewed interest in unions and industrial action?
Why too many men in the past cast a modern shadow
Norms and beliefs about 'proper' male conduct have deep historical roots
What drives middle-class support for political Islam in democracies?
Economic self-interest – not ideology – explains middle-class support for Islamic political parties in post-Arab Spring democratic elections