Research
Work in progress
Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of inheritance
with Sébastien Fontenay, and Marc Goñi. ECARES working paper 2024-01.
Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern, and Female Empowerment
with Matthew Curtis, Marc Goñi, and Joanne Haddad.
Working Papers
Revolutionary transition: Inheritance change and fertility decline
with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi. CEPR DP18607. Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy.
Housing inequality and how fiscal policy shapes it: Evidence from Belgian real estate
with Gerard Domenech-Arumi.
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility Cycles: Baby Boom and Busts in Twentieth Century America
with Bastien Chabé-Ferret. CEPR DP13374. Bastien Chabé-Ferret's presentation.
Published Papers
The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France. Journal of Historical Geography, 84:49-60, 2024. [with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi]. CEPR DP18608. Dataverse.
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France. Explorations in Economic History, 93, 101588, 2024. [with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi]. Dataverse.
Housing, neighborhoods, and inequality. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. June 2023. [with Gerard Domenech-Arumi and Guillaume Chapelle].
Economics and Family Structures. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press. 2023, March 22. [with Thomas Baudin and Bram De Rock]
Population Homeostasis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economics and Human Biology, 45, 101102, 2022. [with David de la Croix]
Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility The Economic Journal, 131(637):2089-2118, 2021. [with Marc Goñi]
Endogenous Childlessness and Stages of Development. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(1), 83-133, 2020. [with Thomas Baudin and David de la Croix]
David de la Croix presenting at CEAR-HCEO-MOVE Workshop on Family Economics 2015.
Childcare and Commitment within Households. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 176, Pages 503–551, 2018.
Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave. Canadian Journal of Economics. 51(1), 236-274, 2018. [with Juliane Parys and Gregor Schwerhoff]
Population Density, Fertility, and Demographic Convergence in Developing Countries. Journal of Development Economics. 127, July, 13-24, 2017. [with David de la Croix]
Having a Second Child and Access to Childcare: Evidence from European Countries. Journal of Demographic Economics. 83(2), 177-210, 2017. [with Hippolyte d'Albis and Angela Greulich]
Fertility and Childlessness in the United States. American Economic Review, 105(6), 1852-82, 2015. [with Thomas Baudin and David de la Croix]
Short article for the LSE’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy.
A Model of Voluntary Childlessness , Journal of Population Economics, 26(3):963–982, 2013.
Articles in Books and Journals (Soft-refereeing)
Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey, in Human Capital and Economic Growth: The Impact of Health, Education and Demographic Change , A. Bucci, A. Prskawetz, and K. Prettner eds, Palgrave - MacMillan. with Thomas Baudin and David de la Croix]
Family planning is not (necessarily) the priority institution for reducing fertility. Chapter 24 in Institutions for Future Generations edited by Axel Gosseries and Iñigo González-Ricoy. Oxford University Press. 2016. [with Thomas Baudin]
L’expansion de l’éducation en Afrique annonce-t-elle sa transition démographique? Dounia, 7, 33-50, 2014. [with David de la Croix]