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Victor Gay
Assistant Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Current Positions
- Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics (since Fall 2018)
- Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (since Fall 2018)
- Scientific Advisor of the University Data Platform of Toulouse (PUD-T) of the 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 (2022-2023)
- TSE BID Seminar (with A. Tapsoba) since 2020-2021
- TSE BID Workshop (with A. Tapsoba) since 2018-2019
- IAST Research Methods Forum (with M. Derex) since 2020-2021
- Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (with J. Stieglitz) since 2020-2021
Funded projects
- ObARDI (PI) ANR-20-CE38-0015 (01-2021/01-2025) blog
- DeNazDB (Co-PI) ANR-21-FRAL-0005 (01-2022/05-2025)
PhD in Economics, The University of Chicago, 2018
Working Papers
(2022).
The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor.
Conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal.
Articles
(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.
Other Publications
(2022).
ObARDI : un projet interdisciplinaire pour comprendre la construction de l'État moderne (1661-1789).
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 41.
(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.
(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