Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern, and Female Empowerment
with Matthew Curtis, Marc Goñi, and Joanne Haddad.
This work was honored with the Louis Henry Award at ESHD 2025.
Inheritance and Migration: Evidence from 19th Century Italy
with Thomas Baudin, Tommaso D'Amelio, and Simone Moriconi.
The Global Fertility Transition: Lessons and Puzzles
with Anne Hannusch and Pauline Rossi, in preparation for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of inheritance
with Sébastien Fontenay, and Marc Goñi. CEPR DP 20275.
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility Cycles: Baby Boom and Busts in Twentieth Century America
with Bastien Chabé-Ferret. CEPR DP13374. Revision requested at the Journal of Economic Growth.
Bastien Chabé-Ferret's presentation.
Housing inequality in Belgium: Novel estimates and a policy application
with Gerard Domenech-Arumi. Dataverse.
Revolutionary transition: Inheritance change and fertility decline. Journal of Political Economy, accepted. [with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi].
Online Appendix, Replication Data
The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France. Journal of Historical Geography, 84:49-60, 2024. [with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi]. Dataverse.
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France. Explorations in Economic History, 93, 101588, 2024. [with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi]. Dataverse.
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.
Inégalités en Belgique. Un paradoxe? joint with André Decoster, Koen Decanq, Bram De Rock, Paula Gobbi, and contributions of Ella-Marie Assal, Bart Capéau, Micael Castanheira, Laurens Cherchye, Gerard Domènech-Arumí, Sarah Kuypers, Giovanni Paolo Mariani, Sakura Panagamuwa Gamage, Erik Schokkaert, Stijn Van Houtven, Jonas Vanderkelen, Gerlinde Verbist, Frederic Vermeulen, Kobe Wolfs. Racine.
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].
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]