Marion Mercier is a tenured researcher at the CNRS and a member of the Department of Economics at Université Paris-Dauphine (DIAL-LEDa, Université PSL). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. Her research is in the field of development economics and tackles questions related to violence, political economy, international migration and social norms. She is also a corresponding researcher at IRES (Belgium) and an affiliated researcher at IZA (Germany), CEPREMAP (France) and ICMigrations (France).