Jose De Sousa

Recent Publications

Tastes, Geography and Culture (with Eve Colson-Sihra and Thierry Mayer). Accepted at the Journal of Urban Economics. 

• • • • The line:  In 1974, geography predicts food tastes; by 2005, culture does.

      • Replication package is here. 

      • In the news: CEPR VoxTalks & CEPR DP 20563

The Nobel Journey of an Economics Detective: Finding Gold in Gender Data, Revue d'économie politique, 135(2), 237-269, 2025.

• • • • The line: Review of contributions to gender economics by Claudia Goldin (Nobel 2023).

      • The .tex for Figure 4. Replication package. Slides are available upon request.

Reproducibility in Management Science, Fisar, M. Greiner, B. Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproductibility Collaboration, Management Science,  70(3): 1 343-1356, 2024.

• Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

Trust and Specialization in Complexity: Evidence from U.S. States (with Amelie Guillin, Julie Lochard, and Arthur Silve), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 216:332-353, December 2023. Ungated version.

• • • The line: Trust favors specialization in complex products.

    • Replication package is here

    • In the news: VoxEU CEPR column

From Micro to Macro Gender Differences: Evidence from Field Tournaments (with Guillaume Hollard), Management Science, 69(6): 3358-3399, June 2023. Ungated version.

• • • The line: A small gender gap in performance can accumulate over time, causing women to reduce their efforts and quit competitions.

    • Replication package is here

    • In the news: VoxEU CEPR column, Sciences Po Liepp Policy Brief #62

Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination (with Pierre Deschamps), European Economic Review, 135, 2021.

• The line: When monopsony power is low because of relaxed labor mobility constraints, firms cannot act on their prejudice and racial discrimination disappears.

• The Online Appendix with formal proofs of the theoretical predictions from a Search Model of Discrimination. 

• The Replication Files exploiting an exogenous mobility shock on the European football labor market.

Export Decision under Risk (with Anne-Celia Disdier and Carl Gaigne), European Economic Review, 121, 2020,

• • • The line: The most productive exporters are more affected by a higher industry-wide expenditure volatility than the least productive exporters.

    • The Online Appendix. 

    • Replication files and supplementary data including an update version of Trade Prod CEPII.

    • In the News: Comment l’incertitude façonne les décisions des entreprises en matière d’exportation ?

    • The working paper version: a trade model with risk aversion.

Terror networks and trade: Does the neighbor hurt? (with Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier), European Economic Review, 107, 27-56, 2018.

• • • The line: Network-related terrorism redistributes trade flows across countries, including those countries that are not a direct source of terror.

    • Download the replication files.