Publications

Victor Gay, Benjamin Milner (2026). World War I and Female Labor Force Participation: The Case of England and Wales. TSE Working Paper 26-1766.

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Raphael Franck, and Victor Gay (2026). Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France. Journal of Historical Political Economy, 6(2), 113-141.

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Michael Albertus, and Victor Gay (2026). State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution. American Political Science Review, 120(3), 1031-58.

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Eva Davoine, Joseph Enguehard, Victor Gay, and Igor Kolesnikov (2026). Mapping the Grandes Gabelles in Early Modern France. Explorations in Economic History, 102, 101785.

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Victor Gay (2026). Essays in Economic History and Political Economy. Accreditation to supervise research (HDR). Toulouse School of Economics, Université Toulouse Capitole. Committee: Paul Seabright (chair), Julia Cagé, Claude Diebolt, Pauline Grosjean, and Mara Squicciarini.

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Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi, and Marc Goñi (2026). Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline. Journal of Political Economy, 134(6), 1666–713.

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Olivia Miske, Brian A. Nosek, Timothy M. Errington, and the SCORE research collective [124 researchers, including Victor Gay] (2026). Investigating the Reproducibility of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Nature, 652, 126–34.

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Sandra Brée, Victor Gay, Marion Leturcq, Baptiste Coulmont, Yoann Doignon, Thomas Constum, Thierry Paquet, Pierrick Tranouez (2026). POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926-1936). Historical Life Course Studies, 16, 3-28.

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Victor Gay (2025). The Jean Nicolas Database. The French Rebellion, 1661-1789. Data & Corpus, 1, 15892.

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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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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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Victor Gay (2025). Un data paper en SHS : pourquoi, pour qui, comment ? [A data paper in the social sciences: why, for whom, how?]. 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.

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Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus C. Pörtner, and the Many-Economists Collaborative on Researcher Variation [146 researchers, including Victor Gay] (2025). The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. NBER Working Paper 33729. Accepted at the Journal of Economic Literature.

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Victor Gay (2025). La mesure du travail des femmes dans les recensements de la population au tournant du 20e siècle [Measuring women's labor in the population censuses at the turn of the twentieth century]. In A. Trannoy and A. Virmani (Eds.), Économistes 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, Sébastien Poublanc (2023). Espaces construits par la puissance publique et espaces vécus par les justiciables dans le royaume de France (1661-1789) [Constructed spaces by public authorities and experienced spaces by litigants in the Kingdom of France (1661-1789)]. In Actes du congrès de la Fédération historique de la région Occitanie, in press.

Conference Proceeding

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) [ObARDI: an interdisciplinary project to understand the construction of the Modern State (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 [Knowledge graphs for representing and analyzing the evolution of territories in history]. 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.

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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, 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.

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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. Dissertation. Department of Economics, the University of Chicago. Committee: Richard Hornbeck (chair), Steven D. Levitt, Derek A. Neal, and James A. Robinson.

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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.

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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.

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