Victor Gay

Assistant Professor

Toulouse School of Economics

Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

Université Toulouse 1 Capitole

Current Positions (since Fall 2018)

Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics
Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

Principal investigator ANR grant ObARDI 2021-2025 (ANR-20-CE38-0015)

My research is at the crossroads of economic history, labor economics, and the economics of culture. I focus primarily on the economic history of France, and develop data infrastructures based on novel archival material.

Academic event organizer (2020-2021)

TSE BID Seminar and BID Workshop (with A. Tapsoba)
IAST Epistemology Workshop (with M. Derex)
Big Data in Economic History Conference (with M. Saleh)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (with J. Peña)

Curriculum vitae

PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018

Working Papers

Victor Gay (2021). The Legacy of the Missing Men. The Long-Run Impact of World War I on Female Labor Force Participation.

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Articles

Victor Gay (2021). Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940). Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, forthcoming.

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Victor Gay, Jörn Boehnke (2020). The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), forthcoming.

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Victor Gay, Michael Albertus (2019). No Better Time Than Now. Future Uncertainty and Private Investment Under Dictatorship. Economics & Politics, 31(1), 71-96.

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Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Amir Shoham (2018). Decomposing Culture. An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household. Review of Economics of the Household, 16(4), 879-909.

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Victor Gay, Michael Albertus (2017). Unlikely Democrats. Economic Elite Uncertainty under Dictatorship and Support for Democratization. American Journal of Political Science, 61(3), 624-41.

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Victor Gay, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Amir Shoham (2013). Do Female/Male Distinctions in Language Matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas. Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), 495-8.

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Data Projects

The TRF-GIS

The Third-Republic France Geographic Information System (1870–1940)

The WWI MPF Database

The World War I military fatalities database

Language Structures

Grammatical Gender Structures database

Other Publications

Roger L. Ransom (2019). Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear and the Tragedy of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed for EH.net.

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Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut (2016). Language and Gender Roles among Immigrants to the U.S. A Historical Perspective. In P. Paolini (Ed.), I Mondi Delle Donne, 165-79. Roma: Edi Cusano.

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Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut (2016). Migration As A Window Into The Coevolution Between Language And Behavior. In S.G. Roberts et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG 11), 1-8.

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Victor Gay, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Amir Shoham (2013). The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles. Berkeley Economic History Laboratory Working Paper 2013-03.

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Dissertation

Victor Gay (2018). The Legacy of the Missing Men: World War I and Female Labor in France Over a Century. Defended at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Committee: Richard Hornbeck (chair), Steven D. Levitt, Derek A. Neal, and James A. Robinson..

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