Dr. Antoine Boucher is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Andreas Fuchs) at Göttingen University. He is involved in the project "Economic and Ideological Causes of Political Radicalization and Violence" within the Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture. He holds a master’s degree in Development Economics from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and defended his PhD thesis, "Three Essays in Applied Political Economy," in November 2023 at the Université Paris Dauphine. His thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Lisa Chauvet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Dr. Marin Ferry (Université Gustave Eiffel).