Publications

2025

The social and solidarity economy and social work in Belgium: a joint pathway for sustainable transitions (with N. Vallet, B. Sak, A. Moroglou & Y. Perifanos, Y.)  In Ecosocial Work and Sustainability Transitions. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. Retrieved Oct 21, 2025.

Home vs. Nursing Care: Unpacking the Impact on Health and Well-Being? (with E. Bassoli and M. Lefebvre)

Social Science and Medicine, Volume 385, 118533 .

Do European really feel better at home than in a nursing home? (with A. Laferrère)

American Journal of Epidemiology, forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf041  

[COVERAGE: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Vn8kQta81Css8mnFYPWde?si=c4fe341ef66747d0; https://share-eric.eu/research-results-details/life-satisfaction-can-rise-after-moving-into-a-nursing-home ]

Grandchild care and eldercare. A quid pro quo arrangement (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau)

 Economic Modelling, 146, 107006, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107006 

2024

Indicateurs de dépendance sur base de l’enquête SHARE: espérance de vie en bonne santé (with X. Flawinne and S. Perelman) 

Revue d’Economie Financière, 152, 37-55. 

Différences de mortalité en Ehpad et à la maison en Europe (with M. Lefebvre)

Revue d’Economie Financière, 152 , 101-112.

2023

Blood and Gender Bias in Informal Care within the Family? (with C. Canta and P.Pestieau)

Review of the Economics of the Household:  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09669-3

[COVERAGE: Conférence Caisse des Dépôts]

Nursing Homes and Mortality in Europe: Uncertain Causality (with X. Flawinne, M.Lefebvre, P. Pestieau and S. Perelman).

Health Economics, 32(1), 134-154, 2023. 

[COVERAGE: TSE-SCOREJournal, La libre, CNRS_Dialogues économiques]

2022

The increasing role and the diversity forms of Commons for production and preservation of essential goods and services. (with P. Bance)

 Annals of of Public and Cooperative Economics, 92(1), 5-12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12318 

2020

Long-term care insurance with family altruism: Theory and empirics. (with J. Klimaviciute and P. Pestieau)

The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 87(4), 895–918. DOI: 10.1111/jori.12284.

2019 

Family altruism and long-term care insurance. (with J. Klimaviciute and P. Pestieau)

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 44(2), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-018-00117-3 

2018

Inégalités face à la mort et la dépendance : enseignements à partir de l’enquête SHARE. (with M. Lefebvre & S. Perelman) 

Revue française d'économie, 33 (2), 75-111. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfe.182.0075

2017

Caring for elderly parents: is it altruism, exchange or family norm? (with J. Klimaviciute, S. Perelman and P. Pestieau) 

Journal of Population Economics, 30(3), 835-873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0635-2 

Other publications

• Paoloni, N. & Schoenmaeckers J. (2023). Le rôle de l’enseignant dans la mini-entreprise vectrice de développement des compétences terminales, Didactiques en Pratique, n°9.

• Paoloni, N. & Schoenmaeckers. J. (2023). Le parcours du Wikifin Lab : une expérience interactive pour contextualiser le cours de « Formation sociale et économique », Didactiques en Pratique, n°9.

• Sak, B. & Schoenmaeckers, J. (2022). The essential role of grassroots in health mutuals or how a social economy entity addresses the health crisis. Impresa Sociale 2022 (1). 

• Compère, C., Sak, B. & Schoenmaeckers J. (2021), Review of Mapping Exercises on Social and Solidarity Economy, UNTFSSE Knowledge Hub Draft Paper Series. Geneva: UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE).

• Kuypers, S., Decoster, A., Klimaviciute, J., Lefebvre, M., Marx, I., Perelman, S., Pestieau, P., Schoenmaeckers, J., Spiritus, K., Verbist, G. (2019). CRESUS: Measuring and mobilizing wealth for a cohesive, inclusive and fair society. Final Report. Brussels: Belgian Science PolicyOffice2019–68p. (BRAIN-be-(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks))

• Klimaviciute, J., Perelman, S., Pestieau, P. & Schoenmaeckers, J. (2017). Pourquoi s'occupe-t-on de ses vieux parents? In A., Vandenhooft, S., Carbonnelle, T., Eggerickx, V., Flohimont, & S., Perelman (Eds.), Vieillissement et entraide. Quelles méthodes pour décrire et mesurer les enjeux? (pp. 159-183). Namur, Belgique: PUN.

• Bonsang, E., & Schoenmaeckers, J. (2015). Long-term care insurance and the family: does the availability of potential caregivers substitute for long-term care insurance? Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society (pp. 369-380). De Gruyter.

• Schoenmaeckers, J. (2013). Filling in the gap: how to explain the divergence between subjective and objective health measures. In Börsch-Supan, A.; Brandt, M.; Litwin, H.;  Weber, G (Eds), Active Ageing and Solidarity between generations in Europe (pp. 187-198). Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.

• Pacolet, J., Perelman, S., De Wispelaere, F. & Schoenmaeckers, J. (2012). Social and Fiscal Fraud in Belgium: A Pilot Study on Declared and undeclared Income and Work : SUBLEC, Acco Leuven / Den Haag.

• Lambert, P., Perelman, S., Pestieau, P., & Schoenmaeckers, J. (2011). Health insurance coverage and adverse selection. In A., Börsch-Supan, M., Brandt, K., Hank, & M., Schröder (Eds.), The Individual and the Welfare State: Life Histories in Europe (pp. 225-231). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.