I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict within the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and a research fellow at the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum, as part of the ERC GENPOP. My research spans political economy, (macro) development and economic history.
I am interested in a variety of issues related to long-run economic and institutional development, including the political economy of taxation, military recruitment and resistance to state expansion, the interaction between demographic transition and structural change, and historical living standards.
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News:
July 15-16: I will attend the NBER SI Political Economy.
July 27-31: I will attend the WEHC in Lund.
Research
(Current projects)
Some past events
- April 24-25, 2025. I presented “Political Costs…” at the CEPR Economic History Symposium in Gerzensee.
- March 19-21, 2025. I presented “Political Costs…” at the CESifo Public Economics Conference in Munich. The paper was nominated for the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award!
- Feb 7-8, 2025. I presented “Political Costs…” at the CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Workshop in Heidelberg.
- 21 Nov 24. I presented “Political Costs” at the Collegio Carlo Alberto PhD workshop.
- 9 Oct 24. I presented “Political Costs” at the LSE econ history graduate seminar.
- 21-22 May 24. I organized the Advanced Methods (hybrid) Workshop in Lyon. Program.
- Apr-Jul 24. At the invitation of Davide Cantoni, I visited the Department of Economics at LMU.
- 14-15 Sep 23. I organized a workshop on advanced data collection methods at ENS de Lyon.
- 30 Mar 23. I presented an earlier version of ‘Lewis and Malthus’ at the Long Run Dynamics in Economics Workshop at PSE.
- 23 Mar 23. I presented an earlier version of ‘Lewis and Malthus’ at the Lewis Lab Graduate Workshop in Manchester.
- 8 Mar 23. I presented an earlier version of ‘Malthus in the Raj’ at the Graduate ESH Seminar in Oxford.
About me
While being a civil servant scholar at École normale supérieure, I completed a Master’s degree in economics at Paris School of Economics. Before that, I followed a liberal arts curriculum, including a Bachelor degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. Since starting my PhD at ENS de Lyon thanks to a government scholarship, I have visited the Harris School in Chicago, the University of Oxford, and LMU. Since 2024, I am a research fellow at the University of Bologna.
My surname is pronounced /ɑ̃gø.aʁ/. Originally from Normandy, it is related to a surname found throughout the Germanic language area (with variants such as Engelhardt or Inglehart) and was probably introduced into northwest France as a result of medieval Norman settlement.
.tf is the Internet domain for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, which happened to be available.
My CV
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- Political Economy
- Growth and Macro Development
- Economic History
ENS Graduate Degree, 2021
École normale supérieure - PSL
Master's Degree in Economics (APE), 2020
Paris School of Economics
Bachelor of Philosophy, 2017
Pantheon-Sorbonne University