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Victor Gay
Assistant Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
I am on sabbatical leave at the Department of Economics of the University of Michigan during the academic year 2023-2024.
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Toulouse School of Economics (since Fall 2018)
- Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (since Fall 2018)
- Scientific Advisor, University Data Platform of Toulouse (PUD-T), PROGEDO data infrastructure (since Fall 2021)
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.
Departemental services (on leave in 2023-2024)
- TSE BID Seminar co-organizer (2020-2023)
- TSE BID Workshop co-organizer (2018-2023)
- IAST Research Methods Forum co-organizer (2020-2022)
- Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences co-organizer (2020-2023)
Funded projects
- ObARDI (PI) ANR-20-CE38-0015 (01-2021/01-2026) blog
- DeNazDB (Co-PI) ANR-21-FRAL-0005 (01-2022/05-2026)
PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018
Working Papers
(2023).
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline.
CEPR Discussion Paper 18607.
(2023).
The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France.
CEPR Discussion Paper 18608.
(2023).
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France.
CEPR Discussion Paper 18609.
Work in Progress
Journal Articles
(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.
BibTeX Article Appendix Data and Code Reproducibility certificate HAL DOI
(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.
BibTeX Article Appendix TRF-GIS Dataverse Slides HAL DOI Award
(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.
Replications
(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.
BibTeX Article Appendix Data and Code HAL DOI Original article
(2020).
Replication of: Park and Myers (2010). “Intergenerational Mobility in the Post-1965 Immigration Era: Estimates by an Immigrant Generation Cohort Method.” Demography, 47 (2), 369–92.
Part of the Center for Open Science (COS) SCORE project.
(2020).
Replication of: Mosimann and Pontusson (2017). “Solidaristic Unionism and Support for Redistribution in Contemporary Europe.” World Politics, 69(3), 448–92.
Part of the Center for Open Science (COS) SCORE project.
Book Chapters
(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.
(2021).
Un data paper en SHS : pourquoi, pour qui, comment ? .
Colloque #dhnord2021 - Publier, partager, réutiliser les données de la recherche : les data papers et leurs enjeux.
(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).
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