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I am a fourth-year doctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST). My research investigates the rise in union dissolution and the emerging social stratification of union dissolution risks, examining both cultural and economic drivers.
My primary goal lies in refining and testing the “interaction effect hypothesis” formulated by Andrew Cherlin (2014). The underlying rationale of this hypothesis is that the emerging social stratification of union dissolution is observable only once traditional norms mandating long-term or lifelong commitment in all intimate partnerships are no longer strictly enforced.
Ph.D. Dissertation Overview
My dissertation is structured around three key studies:
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The Two Dimensions of the Retreat from Marriage – Using a census-based panel dataset at the commuting-zone level spanning 1975–2018, I analyse the contribution of manufacturing decline to the rise in divorce and single motherhood, and how Catholic religiosity temporarily delayed this trend.
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The Moderating Role of Traditions – Drawing on the Trajectoires et Origines surveys on immigration, I assess the moderating role of traditions in the emergence of a negative association between education and union dissolution by comparing children of Muslim-origin immigrants and the French majority population across cohorts from 1948 to 1989.
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A Stalled Gender Revolution—Except in the Working Class? – Using full-population French administrative employer-employee data, I assess the contribution of minimum wage increases and manufacturing decline to the narrowing of gender pay gaps within the working class.