Thomas Monnier – Job Market Candidate 2025


Personal website:

https://tlmonnier.github.io/

Contact:

thomas.monnier@ensae.fr

Research fields:

Primary fields: Development Economics
Secondary fields: Urban Economics

Presentation: 

I am a PhD candidate at CREST, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris working under the supervision of Prof. Benoît Schmutz since September 2021.

My research lies at the intersection of urban, labour, and development economics. More specifically, I focus on how informal housing and informal employment relate to key challenges faced by cities in the developing world (e.g. disaster risk management, climate change, migration). I am also interested in spatial sporting and residential segregation.

Job Market Paper:

The Informality Trade-Off: Wages and Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries