I am a Post-doctoral researcher in economics at ENS de Lyon, in the Department of Economics and the Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict (CERGIC) and an affiliate of Bocconi’s Gender Lab.

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📢 News: 📢 My paper “Automating Inequality: Gender Bias in AI-mediated Labor Markets” (with G. Gauthier, D. Nozza & P. Profeta) received a Minor Revise & Resubmit at PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

  • My research interests are in applied labour, public, digital and urban economics.

  • A key aspect of my research is the use of text analysis methods (NLP) to collect new data, like CVs, job descriptions, and job vacancies.

  • My ongoing projects focus on spatial disparities in gender wage gaps, gender differences in the job search and generative artificial intelligence algorithmic bias.

  • In 2023, I have received funding from the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) foundation to develop my research agenda at Bocconi University on Gender Bias in Generative Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with Paola Profeta. This research agenda is further supported by the Women and Science Chair (Dauphine-PSL) Grant.

  • Before, I was a PhD candidate in economics at the Aix Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) and at the Labour Chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE)

  • In 2019, I started my PhD on the supply side effects on gender wage inequality, supervised by Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa and Christian Schluter. I defended my thesis in October 2023.

  • I am also on X and BlueSky.

🏆 News: 🏆 image-right My Job Market Paper “What do women want in a job?” was awarded the Young Researcher Prize 2026 at the 5th Workshop in Gender and Economics (University of Luxembourg), the Etta Chiuri Prize 2025 by the Italian Society of Public Economics, and was runner-up for the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in Labor Economics .

image-left Check the fantastic program of our last 2026 workshop: With the Axa Gender Lab of Bocconi, the London School of Economics WISPPRH and NYU Abu Dhabi, we organize a joint workshop on gender economics each year. Thanks to everyone who participated online and in person at the London School of Economics. See the 2026 program here and previous editions here.

Upcoming presentations: Labour Seminar Series at Aalto University & Innovation Seminar Collège de France - INSEAD

Contact: kenza.elass@ens-lyon.fr