Noah's PhD is focused on social mobility in post-Revolutionary France, elite persistence, and elite change. Together with Aurelius Noble he works on a big digitisation project of the "Tables des Successions et Absences", the French estate tax register. This will allow the study of the transmission of wealth in 19th century France.
Noah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and "History, Society and Politics" from the University of Zurich and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford, Balliol College.
Noah is interested in wealth inequality, social mobility, status transmission, different forms of capital, the persistence of the ancien régime elite, and using machine learning to make new datasets accessible.
Provisional dissertation title
- Essays on social mobility in 19th century France
Dissertation supervisors
- Professor Neil Cummins, Professor Mohamed Saleh
Curriculum Vitae