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Xavier Jaravel

Xavier Jaravel

Associate and Professor of Economics

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 6698
Email:
x.jaravel@lse.ac.uk
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Economics of Environment and Energy
Public Economics
Cohesive Capitalism
Department of Economics

Biography

Xavier Jaravel's current research interests are:

  • Public economics
  • Economics of innovation
  • Economics of inequality
  • Macroeconomics

Xavier's latest projects include:

  • The unequal gains from product innovations
  • The distributional effects from trade

Latest

Upcoming: STICERD Public Events and Lectures
The Lost Marie Curies

27 March 2025

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This is the inaugural lecture of Professor Xavier Jaravel. It is part of a series of inaugural lectures at LSE that provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of new professors. ... Read more...
Upcoming: Wellbeing Seminars
Perceptions of Meaning: Evidence From an AI-Led Survey

13 February 2025

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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Blog
What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

14 January 2025

Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

While many commentators warn that AI will undermine employment and offer only modest productivity gains, empirical studies continue to suggest otherwise. With the right policies in place, the technology holds immense pot... Read more...
Blog
The missing monetary-policy tool

16 December 2024

Johannes Boehm and Xavier Jaravel

Central banks should prepare - both legally and operationally - to carry out direct transfers to households when conventional monetary policy fails. Recent research shows that stimulus payments would increase consumption... Read more...
Blog
Design-based fiscal stimulus transfers: Evidence and macro implications

16 November 2024

Johannes Boehm and Xavier Jaravel

In recent years, and during Covid-19 in particular, many countries have experimented with innovative approaches to fiscal stimulus. This column reports on an experiment in France in which individuals were given a debit c... Read more...
Blog
AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale

30 October 2024

Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of qualitative enquiries, Friedr... Read more...
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Distributional Consumer Price Indices

29 October 2024

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This event is a *Public Economics of Inequality Seminar*: This paper develops a new public database providing estimates of inflation heterogeneity across socio[1]demographic groups in the United States in real time. Thes... Read more...
Wellbeing Seminars
CANCELLED: Perceptions of Meaning: New Evidence from AI-Led Interviews

24 October 2024

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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CEP discussion papers
Five facts about MPCs: Evidence from a randomized experiment

10 May 2024

Johannes Boehm, Etienne Fize and Xavier Jaravel

We present experimental evidence on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of transitory transfers, distributing prepaid debit cards with different features. The one-month MPC is substantially higher with a card ex... Read more...
POID Working Papers
Five facts about MPCs: Evidence from a randomised experiment

09 May 2024

Johannes Boehm, Etienne Fize and Xavier Jaravel

We present experimental evidence on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of transitory transfers, distributing prepaid debit cards with different features. The one-month MPC is substantially higher with a card ex... Read more...
Journal article
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

25 April 2024

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

What is the nature of the distributional effects of trade? This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality,” i.e. inequality that occurs among workers with the ... Read more...
Journal article
Revisiting Event Study Designs: Robust and Efficient Estimation

06 February 2024

Kirill Borusyak, Xavier Jaravel and Jann Spiess

We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous causal effects. We show that conventional regression-based estimators fail to provide unbiased estimates of... Read more...
Journal article
Design-based identification with formula instruments: A review

27 January 2024

Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull and Xavier Jaravel

Many studies in economics use instruments or treatments that combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables via a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments and measures of social or sp... Read more...
Journal article
The Local Labor Market Effects of Modern Manufacturing Capital: Evidence from France

01 May 2023

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

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 te... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

16 November 2022

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e... Read more...
POID Research Seminar
Social push and the direction of innovation

06 September 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. Consistent with this channel, we document that innovators crea... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

10 March 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1994 and 2015 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated ... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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06 May 2020

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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Labour Markets Workshops
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

26 February 2019

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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