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Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier B. Bargain
Research Fellow
University of Bordeaux
olivier.bargain.eco@gmail.com External Homepage

Olivier is Professor of Economics at the University of Bordeaux and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. 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 has been expert for several international organizations and ministries on social, fiscal and labor market policies. He is the coordinator of the project HOPE (Understanding Human Well-being and Behaviour for better Policies & Societies), one of the 'broad research programs' funded by IDEX Bordeaux. He was researcher at IZA in 2004-06.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12017
Learning from the
Olivier B. Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura
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 B. Bargain, Audrey Etienne, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11653
Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing
Olivier B. 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. 11597
Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. 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 B. 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 B. 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 B. 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 B. Bargain, Xavier Jara
published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9163
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207
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