Sciences-Po Paris & CNRS
Department of Economics
28 rue des Saints-Pères, F403a
75007 Paris
claire.montialoux@sciencespo.fr
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences-Po Paris and a CNRS researcher. I am labor economist studying how labor market policies and institutions affect wage inequality, in a global and historical perspective. I am affiliated with the CEPR, IZA, and RF-Berlin.
TEACHING
- Sciences Po: Graduate Topics in political, public, and labor economics (with Antoine Ferey and Roberto Galbiati), Fall 2026
- Sciences Po: EAP: Graduate Labor Market Inequality, Spring 2024-
- Sciences Po: FAC: Graduate Economics of Discrimination (with Ghazala Azmat), Spring 2023-
- UC Berkeley: Stone Center Summer School on Inequality, Summer 2025-
PUBLICATIONS
- Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (with Ellora Derenoncourt), 2021, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(1):169-228. [Slides]. [Appendix & data webpage].
- The Pass-Through of Minimum Wages into US Retail Prices: Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data (with Tobias Renkin and Michael Siegenthaler), September 2020, Review of Economics and Statistics. [Appendix].
WORKING PAPERS
- [NEW] The Effects of a Shorter Workweek on Employment, Output, and Productivity (with Pauline Carry, Elio Nimier-David, Nina Roussille, and Alexandra Roulet), NBER Working Paper #35917, October 2026.
- [UPDATED] Minimum Wages and Informality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gerard), NBER Working Paper #34445, July 2026.
- What Do (Thousands of) Unions Do? Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gerard), NBER Working Paper#34139, August 2025.
WORK IN PROGRESS
- Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector (with Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gérard, and Lorenzo Lagos).
- Equalizing the Great Equalizer: The Long-Run Consequences of School Funding Reforms (with Sebastian Otero and Roberto Hsu Rocha).