Pierre-André Chiappori

Pierre-André Chiappori is a French-Monégasque economist currently E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on household behavior, general equilibrium and mathematical economics. Chiappori studied at École normale supérieure (Paris) between 1974 and 1979. During that period, he also studied at various Parisian universities, receiving degrees in mathematics, statistics, and economics. He graduated with a Ph.D. in economics from the University Paris I in 1981. Chiappori's first academic post was as an assistant professor at his alma mater, University Paris I. He then became a Maître de conférences at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1985, followed by an appointment at the CNRS and the Ecole Polytechnique. The ENSAE appointed him to professor of economics in 1992, he held this post while also being a senior researcher at the CNRS. He left France for a professorship at the University of Chicago in 1997, and took up his current position at Columbia University in 2005, after a year-long stay at the same university as a visiting professor. He has served various journals in an editorial capacity, such as the Review of Economics of the Household, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of the European Economic Association. He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association in 1995 and 2004, respectively. In 2015 he was made fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.