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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: Wellbeing Seminars
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
Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States

01 February 2024

Xavier Jaravel and Danial Lashkari

How should we measure changes in consumer welfare given observed data on prices and expenditures? This article proposes a nonparametric approach that holds under arbitrary preferences that may depend on observable consum... 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...
CEP discussion papers
The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

20 October 2023

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

How much do consumption patterns matter for the impact of international trade on inequality? In neoclassical trade models, the effects of trade shocks on consumers' purchasing power are governed by the shares of imports ... Read more...
POID Working Papers
The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

01 June 2023

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

How much do consumption patterns matter for the impact of international trade on inequality? In neoclassical trade models, the effects of trade shocks on consumers' purchasing power are governed by the shares of imports ... 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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Blog
Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

24 December 2017

Alexander Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over one million inv... Read more...

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