Skin Tone Penalties: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Colorism in Football

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at PSE and EHESS. My research spans the political economy of development and social economics, examining how colonial-era segregation shapes modern urban outcomes, affecting places through land prices and people’s human capital through neighborhood social capital. I also study how skin tone shapes economic disparities, showing evidence of intergenerational disparities between skin tone groups across multiple countries, and using natural experiments with novel machine-assessed measures to estimate causal skin tone discrimination.