Garance Genicot

Her research lies at the intersection of development economics and political economy, focusing on how inequality, aspirations, and social interactions shape economic behavior, mobility, and conflict. Her work has contributed to the development of aspiration-based models of behavior under inequality, the analysis of social networks in informal risk sharing, and the study of identity and conflict in economic environments. Her work has been published in leading journals including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies.

She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She currently serves as President of Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD) and is an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review and a former Co-Editor of Quantitative Economics.