Julia Cagé is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) – where she also leads the Research and Policy Network on “Media Plurality” – and at the CESifo. She is the recipient of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project on “Elections, Ecological Inference and Social Capital in Historical Perspective” (ECOSOCIAL) (2026-2030). She previously received an ERC starting grant for the project PARTICIPATE. In 2023, she received the Best Young French Economist Award and in 2025 the EEA-Yrjö Jahnsson Award (best European economist under the age of 45). She is particularly interested in media economics, political participation and political attitudes. Her work has been published in leading journals in Economics, including the Review of Economics Studies and the American Economic Review, and she has already authored several books translated in more than fifteen different languages.
