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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) Blog
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 (2021-2022)
- TSE BID Seminar and BID Workshop (with A. Tapsoba)
- IAST Epistemology Workshop (with M. Derex)
- Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (with J. Peña)
PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018
Working Papers
(2021).
The Legacy of the Missing Men. The Long-Run Impact of World War I on Female Labor Force Participation.
R&R at The Economic Journal.
Articles
(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.
(2020).
The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation.
Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), forthcoming.
(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.
Other Publications
(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.
(2019).
Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear and the Tragedy of the First World War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed for EH.net.
(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.
(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.
(2013).
The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles.
Berkeley Economic History Laboratory Working Paper 2013-03.
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
Teaching
2020-2021
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