Welcome to my personal website!
I am an applied economist interested in environment, natural resources, migration and education.
I completed my Ph.D. in March 2023 at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. I worked under the supervision of Fabrice Etilé (PSE/INRAE) and François Libois (PSE/INRAE). In my thesis, I study the determinants and consequences of the industrial exploitation of natural resources in Africa, at the micro and macro level.
On another spectrum, I am also interested in education policies and large-scale assessment and have joined the PISA team at the OECD since January 2023 to work on the analysis of the PISA 2022 results (Volume II - Learning During – and From – Disruption, as well as the country note for France).
I am on the 2023/2024 Job Market. My Job Market Paper shows that industrial mining in Africa increases by 25% the 2 year-old mortality rates downstream, providing indirect evidence of water pollution.
Research interests : Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Economics of Migration, Health Economics, Economics of Education.
You can contact me at: irene.hu[at]psemail.eu