Publications

Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay (2025). State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution. TSE Working Paper 24-1557. Final version: September 2025. Conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review.

Working Paper Appendix

Victor Gay (2025). The Jean Nicolas Database. The French Rebellion, 1661-1789. TSE Working Paper 25-1647. Updated version: September 2025. Revision resubmitted to Data & Corpus.

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Sandra Brée, and the POPP team [11 researchers, including Victor Gay] (2025). Paris 100 Years Ago: More People than Today—and Mostly Born Elsewhere . Population & Sociétés, 636, 1-4.

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Sandra Brée, Victor Gay, Marion Leturcq, and the POPP team [7 researchers] (2025). POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926-36). Working paper. Updated version: September 2025. Revision resubmitted to Historical Life Course Studies.

Working Paper

Raphael Franck, and Victor Gay (2025). Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France. CEPR Discussion Paper 18737. Updated version: August 2025.

Working Paper Appendix

Margot Dazey, and Victor Gay (2025). The Mosque Nearby. Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France. Comparative Political Studies, 58(9), 2000-48.

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Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus C. Pörtner, and the Many-Economists Research Collective [146 researchers, including Victor Gay] (2025). The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. NBER Working Paper 33729.

Working Paper

Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, and Marc Goñi (2025). Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline. CEPR Discussion Paper 18607. Updated version: April 2025. Accepted at the Journal of Political Economy.

Working Paper Appendix Data and Code

Victor Gay (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.

Book chapter (English) Book chapter (French) video

Victor Gay (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.

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Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, and Marc Goñi (2024). The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 49-60.

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Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, and Marc Goñi (2024). The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France. Explorations in Economic History, 93, 101588.

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Victor Gay (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.

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Victor Gay, and Pauline Grosjean (2023). Morts Pour la France: A Database of French Fatalities of the Great War. Explorations in Economic History, 90, 101550.

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Victor Gay (2023). The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor. The Economic Journal, 133(654), 2303-33.

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David le Bris, and Victor Gay (2023). Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits. PLoS ONE, 18(1), e0279864.

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Victor Gay, and Sébastien Poublanc (2022). ObARDI : un projet interdisciplinaire pour comprendre la construction de l'État moderne (1661-1789). Les Cahiers de Framespa, 41, 1-12.

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Jörn Boehnke, and Victor Gay (2022). The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), 1209-41.

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Lucas Bourel, Nathalie Jane Hernandez, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Victor Gay, and Sébastien Poublanc (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.

Conference Proceeding

Victor Gay (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.

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Victor Gay (2021). Covid-19: «Comme si nous vivions la grippe espagnole de 1918 et la Grande dépression de 1929». L’Opinion.

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Victor Gay (2021). What can history teach us about Covid-19?. TSE Mag, 21, 30-1.

Article

Victor Gay (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.

OSF

Victor Gay (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.

OSF

Victor Gay (2020). Comment la grippe espagnole a augmenté la méfiance. Le Point - Phébé.

Article

Victor Gay (2019). War and the sexes. IAST Connect, 14, 16-7.

Article

Victor Gay (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.

Book review

Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay (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 (2019). War and gender roles. TSE Mag, 18, 7.

Article

Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, and 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 (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.

Dissertation Appendix Data Appendix Video

Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay (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, Daniel L. Hicks, and 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.

Conference Proceeding

Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, and 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.

Book Chapter Appendix

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

Article DOI

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

Working Paper