Mathilde Emeriau

Mathilde Emeriau serves as an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at Sciences Po, based at the médialab research center. Previously, she held a faculty position in the Government department at the London School of Economics.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Political Science from Stanford University
• Master's degree in Economics from the Paris School of Economics

Emeriau's research centers on immigrant integration dynamics in France using advanced quantitative causal inference methods. She leverages government surveys, original data collection, and archival sources through randomized experiments, event studies, and regression discontinuity designs. Her work addresses critical intersections of migration policy, xenophobic violence, and institutional decision-making in asylum systems.

Analysis of her recent publications reveals a cohesive focus on migration policy evaluation in French contexts, with methodological rigor across historical and contemporary settings. Key themes include how external shocks (shipwrecks/terrorist attacks) influence asylum outcomes, long-term integration effects of xenophobic violence, bias mitigation in bureaucratic processes, and policy instrument efficacy. Her Ugandan study extends this framework to development contexts, examining voter responses to anti-poverty interventions.

Emeriau actively contributes to interdisciplinary policy research through the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) and the Project Liberty Institute (formerly McCourt Institute), applying computational social science approaches to complex governance challenges.