Olivier Bargain

Research Fellow

Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

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Olivier is Professor of Economics at the University of Bordeaux and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is also a Research Fellow at IZA and LISER. His research covers topics in development, public and labor economics. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and coeditor of the book series Research in Labor Economics. Former member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the French Prime Minister, he is now director of the research department 'Behavior, Organizations and Policy Evaluation' at Bordeaux University.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15867
Dynastic Measures of Intergenerational Mobility
Olivier Bargain, Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15374
Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Olivier Bargain, Jordan Loper, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14967
Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic
Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain, Tanguy Bernard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14406
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
published as 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 865 - 905
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14233
Another Brick in the Wall. Immigration and Electoral Preferences: Direct Evidence from State Ballots
Olivier Bargain, Victor Stephane, Jérôme Valette
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13297
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
published as 'Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America' in: World Development, 2021, 142, 105422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017
Learning from the
Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Kwenda, Miracle Ntuli
published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11924
Public Sector Wage Gaps over the Long-Run: Evidence from Panel Administrative Data
Olivier Bargain, Audrey Etienne, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11653
Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix, Luca Tiberti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597
Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed
published as 'Global terror, well-being and political attitudes' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, Article 103394
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11534
Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Olivier Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502
Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland
Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10908
'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10907
Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara
published online as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 22 June 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9163
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8007
Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Olivier Bargain, Delphine Boutin
published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7862
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (2), 351-373
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7737
Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, Claire Keane
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7698
Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl
published as 'Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5, 10 (2016)
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