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I was a doctoral researcher at Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and will begin my role as the head of the family studies section at INSEE in October.

My dissertation investigates the causes of the rise in union dissolutions in France and the growing class inequality in exposure to these events. In a theoretical first chapter, I incorporate individualization theories into William J. Goode’s model, positing that the diffusion of separations to lower-education strata requires the breakdown of traditional values. The second chapter, using survey data on children of immigrants, tests this theory, showing that among foreign-born endogamous couples—the most exposed to traditional values—the less educated have remained as unlikely to separate as their higher-educated counterparts, despite greater hardships. The third chapter, using census data, demonstrates that Catholic religiosity slowed the rise in divorce in France. The final chapter shows that increases in female labor force participation, driven by structural employment shifts, raised the rates of single motherhood and divorce.