Pauline Grosjean is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her research focuses on how culture and institutions shape long-term economic development. She has published research on a range of factors that are crucial for economic development, including cooperation and violence, trust, gender norms, support for democracy and for market reforms, immigration, preferences for education, and conflict.

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Political trenches: War can create both political solidarity and extreme polarisation
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New scores on old sores: The Morts Pour la France database on WWI fatalities in France
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Conflict, empires, and political preferences
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Racial prejudice, dog-whistle politics, and police behaviour
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Heroes and villains: How networks of influential individuals helped destroy one of the world’s most durable democracies and legitimise a racist, authoritarian state
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