Xavier Jaravel

Associate and Professor of Economics

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 6698

Email:

x.jaravel@lse.ac.uk

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Economics of Environment and Energy
Public Economics
Cohesive Capitalism
Department of Economics

Biography

Xavier Jaravel's current research interests are:

Public economics
Economics of innovation
Economics of inequality
Macroeconomics

Xavier's latest projects include:

The unequal gains from product innovations
The distributional effects from trade

Latest

Upcoming: STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Emerging Technologies

10 December 2026

Danial Lashkari (LSE), Xavier Jaravel (LSE), Maarten de Ridder (LSE), Dimitris Papanikolaou (Northwestern), Gregor Schubert (UCLA), Laura Veldkamp (Columbia), Lukas Freund (Boston College), Tania Babina (Maryland), Chad Jones (Antrophic/Stanford - KEYNOTE SPEAKER), Chen Lian (Berkeley), Alex Imas (Deepmind)

The workshop will bring together leading papers on how new technologies, in particular on AI affects productivity growth and economic reallocation.... Read more...

POID Working Papers

Conversations at scale: robust AI-led interviews with simple open-source platform

05 June 2025

Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel

The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to conduct qualitative interviews at a large scale, with thousands of respondents, creating a bridge between qualitative and quantitative methods. In thi... Read more...

POID Working Papers

Distributional consumer price indices

05 June 2025

Xavier Jaravel

This paper develops a new public database to estimate inflation heterogeneity across socio-demographic groups in the United States in real time. These distributional CPIs (D-CPIs) are fully consistent with the methodolog... Read more...

Blog

Innovation's Unseen Frontier

01 March 2025

Xavier Jaravel

Notwithstanding Plato's 2,400-year-old proverb, necessity alone is not the mother of invention. It also requires opportunity. An individual's likelihood of becoming an innovator reflects parental background in terms of i... Read more...

STICERD Public Events and Lectures

The Lost Marie Curies

27 February 2025

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This is the inaugural lecture of Professor Xavier Jaravel. It is part of a series of inaugural lectures at LSE that provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of new professors. ... Read more...

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

in brief... Do try this at work: the AI chatbot that can interview at scale

20 February 2025

Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel

Large language models can conduct interviews at speed and at scale. Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel present a new open source platform to support this innovative form of qualitative research.... Read more...

Blog

The next innovation revolution should be democratisation

20 February 2025

Xavier Jaravel

Innovators are most likely to be men from privileged backgrounds. Xavier Jaravel argues that democratisation and widening of access to innovative careers worldwide is key to boosting long-term growth and addressing today... Read more...

Wellbeing Seminars

Perceptions of Meaning: Evidence From an AI-Led Survey

13 February 2025

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Blog

Distributional consumer price indices and the measurement of inequality

30 January 2025

Xavier Jaravel

Differences in consumption patterns between lower- and higher-income households suggest the potential for inflation inequality, but evidence on the scale and drivers of this disparity remains scarce. This column uses 'di... Read more...

Blog

What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

14 January 2025

Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

While many commentators warn that AI will undermine employment and offer only modest productivity gains, empirical studies continue to suggest otherwise. With the right policies in place, the technology holds immense pot... Read more...

Journal article

Five facts about MPCs: evidence from a randomized experiment

01 January 2025

Johannes Boehm, Etienne Fize and Xavier Jaravel

We present five facts from an experiment on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of transitory transfers: (1) the one-month MPC on a cash-like transfer is 23 percent; (2) it is substantially higher (61 percent) o... Read more...

Journal article

A practical guide to shift-share instruments

01 January 2025

Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull and Xavier Jaravel

A recent econometric literature shows two distinct paths for identification with shift-share instruments, leveraging either many exogenous shifts or exogenous shares. We present the core logic of both paths and practical... Read more...

Blog

The missing monetary-policy tool

16 December 2024

Johannes Boehm and Xavier Jaravel

Central banks should prepare - both legally and operationally - to carry out direct transfers to households when conventional monetary policy fails. Recent research shows that stimulus payments would increase consumption... Read more...

Related Events

Distributional Consumer Price Indices

29 October 2024

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

This event is a *Public Economics of Inequality Seminar*: This paper develops a new public database providing estimates of inflation heterogeneity across socio[1]demographic groups in the United States in real time. Thes... Read more...

Wellbeing Seminars

CANCELLED: Perceptions of Meaning: New Evidence from AI-Led Interviews

24 October 2024

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

16 November 2022

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e... Read more...

POID Research Seminar

Social push and the direction of innovation

06 September 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. Consistent with this channel, we document that innovators crea... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

10 March 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1994 and 2015 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated ... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

TBC

06 May 2020

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Labour and Education Seminars

Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

26 February 2019

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)