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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, Marc Goñi (2024). Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline. CEPR Discussion Paper 18607. Updated version: December 2024. Revision resubmitted to the Journal of Political Economy.

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Victor Gay (2024). 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, forthcoming. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion.

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Michael Albertus, Victor Gay (2024). The Road to Rebellion: Rural Uprisings and State-Building in the Run-Up to the French Revolution. TSE Working Paper 24-1557. Updated version: September 2024. Revision requested at the American Political Science Review.

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Raphael Franck, Victor Gay (2024). Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France. CEPR Discussion Paper 18737. Updated version: August 2024.

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Margot Dazey, Victor Gay (2024). The Mosque Nearby. Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France. Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming.

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Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, 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, 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, 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), 2303-2333.

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

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

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Jörn Boehnke, Victor Gay (2022). The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), 1209-1241.

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Lucas Bourel, Nathalie Jane Hernandez, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Victor Gay, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Michael Albertus, 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.

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

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Michael Albertus, 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, 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.

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Victor Gay, Daniel L. Hicks, 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.

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

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

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