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Victor Gay
Assistant Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Université Toulouse Capitole
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics
- Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Research fields Economic history, political economy, labor economics.
Funded projects
PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018
Working Papers
(2025).
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline.
CEPR Discussion Paper 18607. Updated version: April 2025. Accepted at the Journal of Political Economy.
(2025).
The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics.
I4R Discussion Paper 209.
(2025).
The Road to Rebellion: Rural Uprisings and State-Building in the Run-Up to the French Revolution.
TSE Working Paper 24-1557. Updated version: February 2025. Revision requested (2nd round) by the American Political Science Review.
(2024).
Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France.
CEPR Discussion Paper 18737. Updated version: August 2024.
Journal Articles
(2024).
The Mosque Nearby. Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France.
Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming.
(2024).
The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France.
Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 49-60.
(2024).
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France.
Explorations in Economic History, 93, 101588.
(2023).
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (2009).
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2, 1-15.
(2023).
Morts Pour la France: A Database of French Fatalities of the Great War.
Explorations in Economic History, 90, 101550.
(2023).
The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor.
The Economic Journal, 133(654), 2303-2333.
(2023).
Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits.
PLoS ONE, 18(1), e0279864.
(2022).
The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation.
Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), 1209-1241.
(2021).
Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940).
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 54(4), 189-207.
(2019).
No Better Time Than Now. Future Uncertainty and Private Investment Under Dictatorship.
Economics & Politics, 31(1), 71-96.
(2018).
Decomposing Culture. An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household.
Review of Economics of the Household, 16(4), 879-909.
(2017).
Unlikely Democrats. Economic Elite Uncertainty under Dictatorship and Support for Democratization.
American Journal of Political Science, 61(3), 624-41.
(2013).
Do Female/Male Distinctions in Language Matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas.
Applied Economics Letters, 20(5), 495-8.
Book Chapters
(2025).
A Data Paper in the Social Sciences: Why, For Whom, and How? [Un data paper en SHS : pourquoi, pour qui, comment ?].
In C. Kosmopoulos and J. Schopfel (Eds.), Publier, partager, réutiliser les données de la recherche : les data papers et leurs enjeux, 66-74. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion.
(2025).
Measuring Female Labor in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century [La mesure du travail des femmes dans les recensements de la population au tournant du 20e siècle].
In A. Trannoy and A. Virmani (Eds.), Economistes et historiens, dialogue de sourds ?, 65-78. Paris: Odile Jacob.
(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.
Conference Proceedings
(2022).
Graphes de connaissances pour représenter et analyser l'évolution des territoires en Histoire.
In Nicolas Lasolle, Olivier Bruneau, and Jean Lieber (Eds.), Actes des journées humanités numériques et Web sémantique, 23-37. Nancy, France.
(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.
Non Peer-Reviewed Publications
(2022).
ObARDI : un projet interdisciplinaire pour comprendre la construction de l'État moderne (1661-1789).
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 41.
(2019).
Review of Roger L. Ransom (2018) Gambling on War : Confidence, Fear and the Tragedy of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviewed for EH.net.
(2013).
The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles.
Berkeley Economic History Laboratory Working Paper 2013-03.
Teaching
Dissertation
(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.
Contact
- victor.gay@tse-fr.eu
- T.458, 1 Esplanade de l'Université
31080 Toulouse - @victorgayeco