Olivier Bargain Birth: 11/05/1976 Aix-Marseille Université in Montpellier, France Château La Farge, Route des Milles Nationality: French 13290 Les Milles, France WEB: https://sites.google.com/site/bargainoliv E-mail: olivier.bargain[at]univ-amu.fr

P r o f e s s i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s

Academic positions

2015 -2020 Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, France (“délégation”)

2017 – Professor of Economics at the University of Bordeaux, France

2011 – 17 Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille University, France

2006 – 11 Assistant Professor in Economics (tenured in 2007) at University College Dublin, Ireland

2004 – 06 Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, Germany

Management & Advisory Responsibilities

Jan 2017 – Member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (CAE), Council of Economic Advisors to the French Prime Minister

2013 – 17 Member of the governing board of Aix Marseille School of Economics, 90 researchers, 35 PhD students and 10 post-docs.

2011 – 15 Member of the Council of GREQAM (Groupement de recherche en économie quantitative d'Aix-Marseille) and director of the department “ Public Intervention and Economic Philosophy”

2013 – Director of the Institute of Public Economics (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique, IDEP), an institute in charge of policy analysis in France and Europe (www.idep-fr.org)

2005 – 06 Deputy director of the IZA-World Bank ‘Employment and Development’ research program.

Editorial Responsibilities

2015 – Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality

2006 – 07 Coéditeur de la série d’ouvrages Research in Labor Economics (Elsevier, North-Holland)

Awards and Affiliations

2016 Christophe Baron’s prize of the best presentation at the American Wine Economics Association 2016 conference: http://www.wine-economics.org/about/christophe-baron-prize/

2015 Nomination to the 2015 prize for the best French young economist (under age 40) by Le Monde & Le Cercle des Economistes

2013 Marseilles City grant for hosting researcher (Bourse d'Installation de la ville de Marseille)

2012-20 Grant for academic excellence (Prime d’Excellence Académique)

2013 – Research Fellow of the SFI (Danish National Centre for Social Research)

2011 – Senior Research Fellow of the LISER Institute, Luxembourg

2008 – Research Affiliate of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

2007 – Research Fellow of the Geary Institute, Dublin

2006 – IZA Research Fellow, Bonn

2005 – Fellow of CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics), Italy

Visiting

2017 Short visiting at the London School of Economics

2010-12 Visiting researcher at IZA and LISER Institutes

2008 Visiting professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and at the University of Bonn

Fall 2007 Visiting professor at the University of Warsaw

Spring 2003 Visiting researcher, UQAM, Montreal

Other Academic duties

Coordination of Master programs:

2012 –15 Coordinator of the Master 2 “Program Evaluation” at Aix-Marseille Université

2007 – 08 Coordinator of the Master program in Economics at UCD

Organization of research seminar:

2012 –14 Coordinator of the seminar in Economic Philosophy at Aix-Marseille University

2007 – 08 Coordinator of the Economic seminar at the UCD School of Economics.

2005-06 Responsible of the internal seminar at IZA.

Conference organization and scientific committees:

2016 Organization of the Public Economics conference “Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet” (keynote lectures: Kaushik Basu, François Bourguignon, Pierre-André Chiappori, Kai Konrad)

2015 Organization of the Public Economics conference, “Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet” (keynote lectures: Marianne Bertrand, Hans-Werner Sinn, Richard Layard)

2014 Member of the selection committee of the Public Economics conference, “Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet”

2014 & 2016 Selection committee of GRETHA and DIAL conferences on Development Economics

2013 Selection committee of the IZA-World Bank conference

2012 Co-organizer of the workshop “Recent advance in labour supply modelling” (IZA, TEAGASC) Dublin, Mai 18-19 (keynotes: Richard Blundell, Raj Chetty).

2008-09 Scientific committee of the congress of the European Economic Association

July 2006 Organization of the session ‘Optimality of tax-benefit systems in Europe’ at the Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group conference (WPEG, University of Kent).

June 2006 Organization of a training program in labour economics for African PhD students in the framework of the World Bank/AERC Capacity Building project (Nairobi).

May 2006 Co-organizer of the IZA-World Bank conference ‘Employment and Development’ with S. Scarpetta, R. Holzmann and K. F. Zimmermann (Berlin).

Oct. 2005 Co-organizer of the IZA/CHILD/ZEW/CV Starr Center workshop ‘Interaction within the Family: Collective Approach and Bargaining Models’, with G. Violante, D. Del Boca and D. Beninger (Turin).

Dec. 2005 Co-organizer of the ESPRU/CHILD workshop ‘Discrete Choice Labour Supply Models’, Galway (with Eoghan Garvey and C. O’Donoghue).

Peer reviews for the following journals:

Actualité Economique, AEJ Economic policy, BE Journal of Policy Analysis, Cahiers d'économie et sociologie rurale, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economie et Statistiques, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Manpower, Industrial and Labor Relation Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of African Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and

Management, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Revue d'Economie Politique, Recherches Economiques de Louvain, Review of the Economics of Households, Research in Labor Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Scandinavian Journal of Economics,..

Recruitment / promotion committees

2013-2017 Recruitment committee at Aix-Marseille School of Economics

2014 – 15 Recruitment & promotion committees for Research Director positions ("DR") at the Institut de Recherche sur le Développement, IRD (Commission "Sciences Humaines et Sociales", CSS4)

Policy Advisory & Consulting

2016 Advisory to French Senate on the French in-work benefit (‘Prime d’Activité’)

2015 Advisory to the former Prime Minister J.M. Ayrault on a law proposal on the progressivity of the French flat tax ‘CSG’

2015 Advisory to the President’s staff on the reform of the income tax system suggesting a transition toward a withholding tax.

2014 Expert for the French tax commission - Conseil des Prélèvements Obligatoires - and co-author of a report on tax reforms ("Réformes de la CSG et de l'Impôt sur le Revenu")

2013 Expert for the Evaluation Committee on Social Assistance (Comité d’Evaluation du RSA) and the effect of the French minimum income on work incentives and youth employment

2012 Expert for the World Bank on labour supply and informality in ECCU5 countries, with a focus on Latvia

2012 Advisory for the construction of tax-benefit microsimulation for the Ministry of Labour, Santiago, Chile.

2010 Invited expert at the Commission on Child Income Support, Ministry of Social Affairs, Dublin, 15th April 2010

2005 –2008 Expert on France, Germany, Finland and Poland (annual monitoring report piloted by Applica and funded by the EU) for the Social Situation Observatory.

2002 - 2003 World Bank: short term consultancies on the design of efficient separation packages for public sector downsizing in Yemen (under the supervision of Martin Rama)

2001 Advisory on the French earned income tax credit (‘Prime pour l’Emploi’)

Trainings for international organizations

2015 Expert for a TOT (training of trainers) on policy evaluation for the World Bank CLEAR project, CESAG, Dakar, Senegal

2006 World Bank: organization of a training program in labour economics for African PhD students in Nairobi in the framework of the World Bank/AERC Capacity Building project.

Pre-academia jobs

1999 – 2000 Business analyst, Total, Exploration-Production, department of Corporate Strategy and Development, Aberdeen. Main tasks: assets valuation, tax optimisation, strategic planning, integration of Elf oil fields after the merger of Total-Fina and Elf.

1996 – 1998 Vice-President of ESCP-Consulting, Paris (10 associates, 200 interviewers, €500k annual turnover); marketing analyses for various French and international firms.

E d u c a t i o n

2000 - 2004 PhD in Economics, Paris School of Economics (EHESS-ENS-CNRS), with highest honors. Thesis: “Household labor supply and taxation: family and individual perspectives”. Jury: Alan

Duncan, François Laisney, Thierry Magnac, Alain Trannoy, François Bourguignon(supervisor)

1999 M.A. in Economics, Paris School of Economics (EHESS-ENS-CNRS). Thesis: "Poverty traps and tax reforms: a microsimulation analysis" (supervisor: F.

Bourguignon).

1998 M.A. in European Management (ESCP “grandes écoles” diploma) with major in Economics at HEC School of Management (coordinators: Francis Bloch and Hervé Crès) and exchange program in the MBA of the Helsinki School of Economics. Thesis: "Endogenous growth and financial intermediation" (supervisor: Jacques Olivier).

R e s e a r c h

Total record (excluding books and book chapters): 74 articles including 51 articles published in peer reviewed journals. Below I indicate ranks according to classification of the French science foundation CNRS (# rank 1 = 10 , # rank 2 = 18, # rank 3 = 11, # rank 4 = 2 , # unranked = 10) and AERES classification (# rank A: 27, # rank B: 11, # rank C: 3, # ranked in law: 2, # ranked in socio: 1, # unranked: 7)

Incentive Effects of Public Policies

1. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2017): “The Effect of Social Benefits on Youth Employment: Combining RD and a Behavioral Model”, forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

2. Bargain, O., and A. Peichl (2016): “Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison”, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5,10, 1-31

3. Bargain, O., K. Orsini and A. Peichl (2014): “Labour supply elasticities: A complete characterization for Europe and the US”, Journal of Human Resources, 49(3),723-838 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

4. Bargain, O., M Dolls, C. Fuest, D. Neumann, N. Pestel, A. Peichl, S. Siegloch (2013): “Fiscal Union in Europe? Efficiency, Equity and Stabilizing Effects of an EU wide income tax », Economic Policy, July 2103, 1-48 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

5. Bargain, O, L. Gonzalez, C. Keane, B. Özcan (2012): “Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland”, European Economic Review, 56(8), 1675–1691 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

6. Bargain, O., H. Immervoll and H. Vittamaki (2012): “No Claim, No Pain. Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (3), 375-395 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

7. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2011): “Caught in the trap? Welfare’s disincentive and the labor supply of single men”, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95(9-10), 1096-1110 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

8. Bargain, O., M. Caliendo, P. Haan and K. Orsini (2010): “`Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market”, Journal of Population Economics, 23(1), 323-351 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

9. Bargain, O. (2009): “Flexible labour supply models”, Economics Letters, 105, 103-105 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

10. Bargain, O. and K. Osini (2005): “In-work policies in Europe: Killing two birds with one stone?’’, Labour Economics, 13, 667-697 (CNRS: 2, AERES:A)

Distributional Impact of Tax-benefit Policies and Social Preferences

11. Bargain, O., T. Callan, K. Doorley and C. Keane (2016): “Changes in income distribution during the great recession and the role of tax-benefit policy: an International Perspective”, forthcoming in Fiscal Studies (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

12. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, H. Immervoll, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2015): “Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978-2007”, Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

13. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US”, Annales of Economics and Statistiques, 113/114 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

14. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ”, International Tax and Public Finance, 21, 845–873 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

15. Bargain, O. (2012): “Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations”, International Tax and Public Finance, 19(5), 708-731 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

16. Bargain, O. (2012): “The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour: A Shapley decomposition”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 74(6), 856-874 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

17. Bargain, O. and K. Doorley (2011): “In-work transfers for good and bad days. Simulations for Ireland”, Research in Labor Economics, 33, ch. 9, 307-339

18. Bargain, O. and C. Keane (2011): “Tax-Revealed Redistributive Preferences over Time: Ireland 1987-2005”, Labour : Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 24, 141–167 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

19. Bargain, O., H. Immervoll, A. Peichl, and S. Siegloch (2011): “'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany”, International Tax and Public Finance, 19(1), 118-138 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

20. Bargain, O. and T. Callan (2008): “Effects of Tax-benefit Changes on Inequality Trends in Europe: A Decomposition Approach”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 8(1), 1-22. (CNRS: 3, AERES:B)

21. Bargain, O. (2006): “Normative evaluation of tax policies: from households to individuals”, Journal of Population Economics, 12(4), 503-521 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

22. Bargain, O. and K. Osini (2005): “Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?”, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 25, 165-198

Well-being Measurement, Family Economics, Development, Migration

23. Bargain, O. and J. Zeidan (2017): “The direct effect of obesity on emotional well-being: Evidence from Mexico”, in revision for Health Economics (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

24. Bargain, O. P. Kwenda and M. Benhura (2017): “Gender Bias and the Intrahousehold Distribution of Resources: Evidence from African Nuclear Households in South Africa”, forthcoming Journal of African Economies (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

25. Bargain, O. and J. Zeidan (2016): “Stature, skills and life outcome: Evidence from Indonesia”, forthcoming in Journal of Development Studies (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

26. Bargain, O., O. Donni and P. Kwenda (2014): “Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty: Theory and evidence from Cote d’Ivoire”, Journal of Development Economics, 107, 262–276 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

27. Bargain, O., A. Decoster, M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2013): “Welfare, heterogeneity and responsibility: Evidence from Europe’’, Social Choice and Welfare, 41(4), 789-817 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

28. Akay, A., Bargain, O. and K. Zimmermann (2017): “Home sweet home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants”, Journal of Human Resources, 52, 2, 351-373 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

29. Akay, A., O. Bargain, C. Giulietti, J. Robalino & K. Zimmermann (2016): “Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China”, China Economic Review, 37(C), 191-207 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

30. Bargain, O. and D. Boutin (2015): “Remittance effects on child labor: Evidence from Burkina Faso”, Journal of Development Studies, 51/7, 922–938 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

31. Akay, A., Bargain, O. and K. F. Zimmermann (2012): “Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 81, 421– 441 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

Intrahousehold inequality and redistributive policies in rich countries

32. Bargain, O. and L. Martinoty (2016): “Crisis at home? Effect of the Mancession on intrahousehold distribution”, revised for the Journal of Population Economics (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

33. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2014): “Optimal commodity taxation and intrahousehold targeting”, Economica, 81, 48-62 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

34. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2012): “The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining”, European Economic Review, 56 (4), 792-813 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

35. Bargain, O. and O. Donni (2012): “Targeting and child poverty” (previous title: “Indirect taxation, targeting and child poverty”), Social Choice and Welfare, 39(4) 783-808 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

36. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2012): “The impact of tax-benefit reforms on labour supply in a simulated Nash-bargaining framework”, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 34(1), 77-86 (AERES: sociology-demography)

37. Bargain, O., O. Donni and M. Gbakou (2010): “The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland”, Economic and Social Review, 41, 1-20

38. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2007): “Does taxation affect intra-household distribution? A Simulation Approach”, Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 15 (Y. Amiel and J. Bishop, eds.)

39. Bargain, O. et al. (2004): “Does the representation of household behaviour matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies? An introduction”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 96-112 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

40. Vermeulen et al. (2004): “Collective models of labor supply with non-convex budget sets and non-participation: a calibration approach”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 113-127 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

41. Myck et al. (2004): “The Working Families' Tax Credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 129-158 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

42. Beninger et al. (2004): “Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries”, Review of Economics of the Household, 4, 159-180 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

Measure and Dynamics of Wage Inequality

43. Bargain, O, K. Doorley and P. van Kerm (2016): “The effect of the minimum wage on the gender wage gap in the UK and Ireland”, revision for the Review of Income and Wealth (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

44. Bargain, O. and P. Kwenda (2014): “The informal sector wage gap in Brazil and Mexico: new evidence using panel data”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63(1), 117-153 (CNRS: 1, AERES: A)

45. Bargain, O. and P. Kwenda (2011): “Earnings structures, informal employment and self-employment: new evidence from Brazil, Mexico & South Africa”, Review of Income and Wealth, 57, S100-S122 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

46. Bargain, O., S. Bhaumik, M. Chakrabarty and Z. Zhao (2009): “Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987-2004”, Review of Income and Wealth, 55, 562-587 (CNRS: 2, AERES: A)

International Economics and Wine Economics

47. Bargain, O. (2016): "The effect of FDI on Informality: New results from Mexico" , to be submitted to International Economics

48. Bargain, O., J.M.Cardebat and R. Chiappini (2016): “Wine in Blood? Determinants of French wine exports, gravity and genetics”, to be submitted to the Journal of International Economics

49. Bargain, O., J.M.Cardebat and A. Vignolles (2016): “Crowdfunding in wine: a super “en primeur” market? “, in revision for the Journal of Wine Economics (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

50. Bargain, O. and J.M.Cardebat (2016): “History matters, Gurus too. Standardized expert scores of Bordeaux fine wines, Chateau reputation effects and the traditional classifications“,submitted to the International Journal of Industrial Organization

Non-English publications

51. Bargain, O., A. Pacifico, A. Trannoy (2016) : “Fiscalité des familles aisés : vers une forfaitarisation de l’enfant“, Revue Française de Finances Publiques (AERES: droit)

52. Bargain, O. (2015) : “Que peut-on attendre de la Prime d’activité ?“, Revue Française de Finances Publiques (AERES: droit)

53. Bargain, O., and A. Vicard (2013): “L’impact du RMI/RSA sur l’emploi des jeunes: Etude de la discontinuité à 25 ans’’, Economie et Statistiques (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

54. Bargain, O., and A. Vicard (2012): “Le RMI puis le RSA découragent-ils certains jeunes de travailler ? », Insee Analyses, n° X, june 2012

55. Bargain, O., M. Myck, L. Socha and L. Morawski (2007): “As SIMPL as that: introducing a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Poland’’, published in Polish in Wiadomosci Statystyczne, the Journal of the Polish Statistical Society.

56. Bargain, O. and N. Moreau (2006) : “Effets d'une réforme fiscale sur l'offre de travail des ménages dans un cadre collectif simulé’’, Actualité Economique, 82, 1-2 (CNRS : 4, AERES: C)

57. Bargain, O. and I. Terraz (2003) : “Evaluation des effets incitatifs et redistributifs de la Prime pour l'Emploi et de ses alternatives’’, Economie et Prévision, 160/161, 121-149 (CNRS: 3, AERES: B)

58. Bargain, O. (2004) : “Aides au retour à l’emploi et activité des femmes en couple’’, Revue de l’OFCE, 88, 59-87. (CNRS: 4, AERES: C)

Book chapters

59. Bargain, O. (2014): "Decomposing inequality and poverty", Handbook on Microsimulation, C. O'Donoghue editor, preface of A. Atkinson.

60. C. O'Donoghue et al. (2002): “The impact of means tested assistance in Southern Europe” in V. Atella (ed.) Le Politiche Sociali in Italia ed in Europa Coerenza e Convergenza nelle Azioni 1999-2001. Bologna: il Mulino.

Books (as editor and coeditor)

61. “Microsimulation in action: policy analysis in Europe using EUROMOD”, Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 25

62. “Aspects of worker well-being” (with Salomon Polachek), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 26

On-going work

63. Bargain, O., H. Immervoll and E. Sommer: Micro-based Participation Elasticities: New International Evidence”, to be submitted to the Journal of Public Economics

64. Bargain, O. and J. Silva (2016): “Labor supply elasticities: evidence from Latin America”, to be submitted to the World Bank Economic Review

65. Bargain, O. and A. Jonassen (2015): “RD on Age-based Eligibility for Benefits: New Insights using Panel Administrative Data”, to be submitted to the Review of Economics and Statistics

66. Bargain, O., R. Blundell, G. Laroque, A. Peichl and A. Bozio: “Explaining different labor supply pattern in the US and Europe using grouping estimations: the role of tax-benefit policies”, mimeo

67. Akay, A., O. Bargain and P. Martinsson (2017): “Climate shocks and Insurance. The case of the forest industry in Sweden”, to be submitted the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

68. Akay, A., O. Bargain, P. Martinsson and C. Mellström (2017): “Subjective Well-Being and Natural Disasters: Evidence from Sweden”, to be submitted Ecological Economics

69. Bargain, O., A. Etienne and B. Melly: “The public pay gap in France: new evidence using panel data”, to be submitted to the Review of Economic Studies

70. Bargain, O., and A. Jonassen: “Labor supply effects of social assistance and the business cycle”

71. Akay, A., O. Bargain and X. Jara Tamayo (2017): “Fair welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity: subjective versus revealed preferences”, submitted to Social Choice and Welfare

72. Akay, A., O. Bargain and X. Jara Tamayo (2017): “Back to Bentham? Large scale comparison of decision and experience utility”, submitted to the Scandinavian Journal of Economics

73. Bargain, O., M. Dolls, A. Peichl, D. Neumann, S. Siegloch (2015): “Happy tax payers? Income taxation and subjective well-being”, in revision for the Journal of Public Economics

74. Bargain, O., F. Bourguignon and M.C. Chiuri: “Individual domestic productivity and time allocation within the household”

75. Bargain, O., G. Lacroix and L. Tiberti (2016): “Validating the collective model using direct sharing evidence”

76. Bargain, O., O. Donni and I. Hinteti: “Resource sharing in families and Barten scale economies: theory and evidence from the UK”

77. Bargain, O. and D. Boutin (2016): “Parental well-being and child labor”, submitted to World Development

78. Bargain, O., P. Kwenda, E. El Badaoui, E. Strobl and F. Walsh (2012): “The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self Employed Workers”

C o m m u n i c a t i o n s

Media presence

Numerous intervention in French media ; articles and interviews in news papers (including Le Monde, Libération, La Tribune, les Echos, Ouest France), magazines (including l’Express, Liaison Sociales) or reviews (Esprit) ; interviews regarding research articles in foreign newspapers (Wall Street journal, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Time, etc.). Some exemples:

July 2016 « Fiscalité : à quand un peu plus de transparence et d’équité ? », in the newspaper La Tribune, 06/07/2016 : http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/fiscalite-a-quand-un-peu-plus-de-transparence-et-d-equite-584560.html

May 2016 « Le RSA jeune mérite d'être essayé » : Online publication in the French review Esprit. http://esprit.presse.fr/news/frontpage/news.php?code=442 April 2016 Comments on the report of the deputy Christophe Sirugue regarding a simplification of minimum

incomes in France, in newspapers: Ouest France and l'Express : http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actualite-economique/un-nouveau-rsa-des-18-ans-assistanat-ou-geste-fort-contre-la-pauvrete_1784150.html http://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/social/pourquoi-les-jeunes-ne-beneficient-ils-pas-du-rsa-4171294

April 2016 Assessment of 80000 job creation and 0.4 point of GDP that could be due to the transition to the

withholding tax in France, commented in « L'impôt à la source pourrait stimuler l’activité », by Ingrid Feurstein from the newspaper Les Echos: http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/budget-fiscalite/021811350328-impot-la-retenue-a-la-source-pourrait-stimuler-lactivite-1211868.php?SrFE1Mogvmh1MchB.99

9th Dec 2015 Article "L’amendement Ayrault sur la fiscalité ne doit pas être repoussé" in Le Monde on the

changes in fiscal laws 2016 in France: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/12/09/l-amendement-ayrault-sur-la-fiscalite-ne-

doit-pas-etre-repousse_4828057_3232.html

7th Sept 2015 "Le bricolage fiscal est de retour" : article in Le Monde on recent tax cut announcements in France: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/09/07/le-bricolage-fiscal-est-de-retour_4748237_3232.html

8th July 2015 "Les petits pas du « grand soir » fiscal" : article in Le Monde on reforms of child benefit and joint taxation in France : http://www.lemonde.fr/acces-restreint/idees/article/2015/07/08/6d6b699a6b6d69c59565646a63976b_4674881_3232.html

23rd June 2015 "Retenue à la source : l'année blanche pour sauver la rose... et booster l'économie", article in La Tribune on tax witholding in France : http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/retenue-a-la-source-l-annee-blanche-pour-sauver-la-rose-et-booster-l-economie-486253.html

17th June 2015 "Prélèvement à la source : l’année blanche en 2016 pour éviter un quinquennat noir", article in Le Monde on withholding taxation reform in France : http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/06/17/prelevement-a-la-source-l-annee-blanche-en-2016-pour-eviter-un-quinquennat-noir_4655958_3232.html

18th May 2015 "La rhétorique politicienne décide des réformes", interview in Le Monde following a nomination for the young best economist prize " Le Cercle des Economiste-Le Monde": http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/05/18/olivier-bargain-la-rhetorique-politicienne-decide-des-reformes_4635490_3234.html

18th March 2015 "Pour un Smic et une prime d'activité propres aux jeunes“, article in les Echos and interview in the magazine Liaisons Sociales on how to adjust both minimum wage and minimum income with age in order to stimulate youth employment: http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/cercle-127948-pour-un-smic-jeune-compense-par-une-prime-dactivite-jeune-1103214.php

10th March 2015 "La Prime d’activité, entre espoir et regrets" (“French in-work benefits: between hopes and regrets”), article in Le Monde on recent reform announcements regarding in-work transfers: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/03/10/la-prime-d-activite-entre-espoirs-et-regrets_4590697_3232.html

2nd April 2013 Interview in Libération, following a Sciences Po-Libération workshop on “Happiness and Trust”: http://www.liberation.fr/evenements-libe/2013/04/02/nous-avons-mis-en-evidence-l-effet-positif-que-peut-avoir-l-impot-sur-le-bonheur_893008

25th Feb 2013 "L'impôt rend-il heureux?" (Tax makes you happy ?), an article in Le Monde about a study conducted with IZA colleagues on German taxation and well-being:

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/02/25/etre-taxes-nous-rend-heureux_1838216_3234.html

19th Dec 2012 "People Who Pay More Taxes Are Happier, Research Suggests", in: Wall Street Journal, with reference to IZA DP No. 6999, “Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being” and interview of IZA colleague

27th Sept 2012 “Le RSA ne décourage pas les jeunes de travailler” (“French social assistance does not discourage the youth to work”), article in Le Monde by Jean-Baptiste Chastand about my INSEE study with A. Vicard on the disincentive effect of social transfers in France

14th Nov 2012 “When divorce is looming, women work for longer”, Daily Telegraph, p.13, by Rosa Silverman, and “Women work more as risk of divorce gets higher”, Daily Mail, p.33, by Emine Simnaz, on our results regarding the effect of divorce on female labor supply in Ireland

20th June 2010 “Divorce gives women more work”, front page of Sunday Time, by Eithne Shortall, also about our study on divorce and female labor supply in Ireland

1st June 2002 "Deux économistes jugent la réforme de l'impôt inévitablement inéquitable" (“Two economists judge the income tax reform necessarily unfair”): article by V. Malingre in Le Monde about my study with F. Bourguignon on distributional consequences of candidate Chirac’s tax reform promises.

Refereed conference presentations

(70) American Economic Association and ASSA meeting, Chicago, 5-8th Jan. 2016; (69) LACEA conference, Medellin, 10-12 Oct. 2016; (68) Journées d’Economie de Lyon (JECO), 8-9 Oct. 2016; (67) Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), Tokyo, Sept. 2-5, 2016; (66) GENDER conference (grape.org.pl/events/GenderGaps/), Warsaw, July 1-2, 2016; (65) Conference of the American Association of Wine Economists, Bordeaux, 23-25th June 2016; (64) GRETHA Development conference, University of Bordeaux, France, June 2016; (63) Interdisciplinary Challenges of Wellbeing Research: Definitions and Methods, 28 jan. 2016; (62) Italian Development Economists Association (SITES), September 2015, Florence; (61) GRETHA Development conference, University of Bordeaux, France, June 2014 ; (60) IAE conference, Jordan, 10-14 June 2014; (59) Conference on "Recent advances in time use", Paris 1 (organizer: D. Hamermesh and E. Stancanelli), 23rd May 2014; (58) Advances in Family Economics and Applications to Developing Countries, EconomiX, University Paris 10 (organizer: E. Badaoui), December 12-13, 2013, Paris; (57) PoRESP Conference: Poverty and the Family, organized by CORE, IRES and ULB (organizer : F. Maniquet, 5-6 December 2013, Brussels; (56) Economics of Taxation workshop (organizers: E. Lehmann, E. Taugourdeau and R. Boadway), ENS Cachan-CREST, France, 1-2nd July 2013; (55) LAGV conference, Aix, France, 27-29th June 2013; (54) French Economic Conference (AFSE), Aix, France, 24-26th June 2013; (53) Economics of Taxation workshop (organizer: E. Jongen), CPB, The Hague, 25-26th May 2013; (52) IZA-WorldBank-OECD conference on Social Assistance, OECD, Paris, May 21-22, 2013; (51) Development conference, University of Bordeaux, France, 13-15 June 2012; (50) National Tax Association conference, New Orleans, 17-19 Nov. 2011; (49) Conference in honour of G. Becker, Paris, 6-8 October 2011; (48) 67th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Ann Arbor, August 2011 (presentation by coauthors); (47) New development in Welfare Economics, OECD, France, July 2011 (presentation by coauthors); (46) “Shocks in Developing countries”, DIAL, University Dauphine, Paris, June 30 2011; (45) IZA-World Bank conference on Employment and Development, Mexico, 30-31 May 2011; (44) National Tax Association conference, Chicago, 18-20

Nov. 2010; (43) ZEW workshop “Tax Policy”, Mannheim, October 2010; (42) 2nd CIER/IZA Annual Workshop: Research in Labor Economics, Bonn, 7-9 October 2010; (41) 66th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Uppsala, 23-25 August 2010; (40) Conference in Memorandum of Etta Chiuri, Bari, 1-3 July 2010; (39) IZA-OECD workshop on the redistributive effect of the crisis, Paris, 8-9 Feb. 2010; (38) IARIW conference, Kathmandu , 25-26 Sept.; (37) ESPE conference, Sevilla, 10-13th June 2009; (36) Conference on Development and Institution, CEDI, Brunel business school, 4-5 June, London; (35) IZA-World Bank conference on Employment and Development, Bonn, 4-5 May 2009; (34) Irish Economic Association meeting (IEA), 25-26 April 2009, Cork; (33) IRISS workshop, 24th Oct 2008, CEPS-INSTEAD, Luxembourg; (32) Conference of the French Economic Society (AFSE), Paris, 18th Sept. 2008; (31) Irish Economic Association meeting (IEA), 25-26 April 2008, Westport; (30) IARIW conference, Beijing, 19-22 September 2007; (29) UNU-WIDER conference, Helsinki, 7-8 September 2007; (28) IZA-World Bank conference on Employment and Development, Bonn, 8-9 June 2007; (27) Royal Economic Society, Warwick (RES), 12-13 April 2007 (26) Irish Economic Association meeting (IEA), 28-29 April 2007, Ireland; (25) 18th Annual EALE Conference, CEGEI, Prague, 21-23rd September 2002; (24) 62th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Cyprus, 27-31 August 2006; (23) Public Economic Theory conference (PET), Hanoi, 31st July to 3rd August 2006; (22) WPEG conference, university of Kent, 10-12th July 2006; (21) 20th ESPE conference, Verona, 22-24th June 2006; (20) Irish Economic Association meeting (IEA), 29-30 April 2006, Ireland; (19) Presentation at the workshop “Discrete Choice Labour Supply Models”, Galway, 8th-9th December 2005; (18) 20th Annual Congress of the EEA, Amsterdam, 26th August 2005; (17) 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, UCL London, 24th August 2005; (16) 1st meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Palma de Mallorca, July 20-22, 2005; (15) Public Economic Theory (PET) conference and `Journées d’Economie Publique L.A. Gerard-Varet’, GREQAM, Marseille, 16-18th June 2005; (14) 19th ESPE conference, Paris, 16-18th June 2005; (13) Accepted paper for the 17th EALE Conference, San Fransisco [no presentation]; (12) `22ème Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée’, Hammamet, 26-27th May 2005; (11) Invited presentation at the conference “Changing Social Policies for Low-Income Families and Less-Skilled Workers in the EU and the US”, National Poverty Center and the European Union Center, University of Michigan, April 8; (10) Accepted paper for the Royal Economic Society, Nottingham, 21-23 March 2005 [no presentation]; (9) ‘The Rationale of Parenthood Choices’ conference of the Applied Econometrics Association, Pau, 4-5 Feb. 2005; (8) XII Encuentro de Economía Pública, Palma de Mallorca, February 3-4, 2005; (7) `Journées CIRPEE’, Montreal, 15-16th October 2004; (6) Invited presentation at CESifo Summer Institute (‘Taxation and the Family’ session), Venice, 25-26th July 2003; (5) `Journées d’Economie Publique L.A. Gerard-Varet’, GREQAM, Marseille, 16-17th May 2003; (4) `Journées CIRPEE’, Montreal, 23rd November 2002l (3) 14th Annual EALE Conference, Sorbonne, Paris, 19-22nd September 2002; (2) 17th Annual Congress of the EEA and 57th ESEM, Venice, 22-28th August 2002; (1) `19ème Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée’, Rennes and StMalo, 6-7th June 2002.

Invited seminar (or small workshop) presentations

(50) Free University of Brussels, 25th April, 2016; (49) Barcelona GSE summer Forum, workshop on Migration, 8-9 June, 2016; (48) Montpellier (LAMETA), 22 Jan., 2016; (47) ISER, Essex University, Oct. 12, 2015; (46) Paris I Sorbonne, April 2, 2015 ; (45) Université Louvain la Neuve, CORE workshop on well-being measurement, march 2015 (org: François Maniquet) ; (44) University of Montpellier, 20th March 2014; (LAMETA); (43) University of Lille 1, 18th March 2014; (42) University of Cergy-Pontoise (THEMA), 13th March 2013; (41) University of Nantes, 6th of Feb. 2014; (40) Political Economy Seminar, Paris School of Economics, 27th November, 2013; (39) DIAL, Paris, 26th september 2013; (38) Universitad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 17th April 2012; (37) DEFI, Aix-en-Provence, 12th Jan. 2012; (36) GREQAM, Marseille, 12th Jan. 2012; (35) University La Sapienza, Rome, May 26th, 2011; (34) RWI, seminar, Essen, 29 Nov. 2010; (33) 4th November, seminar, 2010, CEPS-INSTEAD, Luxembourg; (32) IZA, 18th Oct. 2010, brownbag seminar; (31) IZA, 11th March 2010, brownbag seminar; (30) U. of Leuven, 15th October 2009; (29) U. of Verona, 22th June 2009; (28) CEPS-INSTEAD, 14th May. 2009, Luxembourg; (27) Internal seminar IZA, Bonn, 7th May 2009; (26) Internal seminar IZA, Bonn, 28th Nov. 2008; (25) BETA, Strasbourg, 27th Oct. 2008; (24) CREST, 9th Oct. 2008; (23) Economic theory seminar, University of Toulouse, 7th Oct. 2008; (22) IZA, 11th Sept. 2008; (21) ESRI, Dublin, 17th April 2008; (20) Free University of Berlin, 7th November 2007; (19) Warsaw University, 26th October 2007; (18) Invited seminar presentation, U. of Verona, 10th June 2007; (17) Geary Institute 15 May, 2007; (16) University Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, 12th March 2007; (15) University of Bilbao, 19th Jan. 2007; (14) University of Tilburg, 27th Sept. 2006; (13) University of Leuven, 29th May 2006; (12) University of Maynooth, Ireland, 17th February 2006; (11) University College Dublin, 10th October 2005; (10) IFS, London, 21st February 2005; (9) DIW, Berlin, 27th January 2005; (8) University of Turin, 2nd December 2004; (7) Laval university, January 2004; (6) Sherbrook university, January 2004; (5) IZA, January 2004; (4) Free University of Brussels, January 2004; (3) Royal Holloway University of London, 1st October 2003; (2) Laval University, 27th March 2003; (1) UQAM, 26th March 2003.

Keynote lectures and other communications

(30) Keynote at EUROMOD 20th Anniversary, September 2016, ISER, University of Essex; (29) Keynote at the “International Microsimulation Association” Conference, September 2015, LISER, Luxembourg; (28) Keynote at the conference "Making Work Pay: the case of Western Balkan countries", Belgrade University, 5th September 2013; (27) Invited roundtable, Banque de France-AMSE workshop on Labor Markets, November 2012, Marseille; (26) Keynote at the EUROMOD conference, Bucharest, 11-12th October 2012; (25) Invited training on “Make Work Pay” policy, DG Employment, Brussels, 29th Feb. 2012; (24) Organizer at IZA workshop on labor supply and taxation; (23) attendance at IZA workshop on Welfare and Happiness, Bonn, 20-21 October 2011; (22) invited presentation at RSA committee, Paris, 28th Sept. 2011; (21) invited attendance at the workshop on family economics, June 1-2 2009, IFS, London; (20) Invited presentation at a family economics workshop, University of Verona, 16th May 2008; (19) Invited presentation on 'taxation and the low-paid in Ireland', roundtable on tax reform and poverty in preparation of the work of the Commission on taxation, Dublin, 12th May, 2008; (18) Invited presentation at the workshop on public sector pay, Office of Manpower Economics, London, 14th September 2007; (17) Invited presentation at the Workshop in Applied Microeconomics, U. of St Andrews, 12-13 September 2007; (16) COST meeting, St Gallen, 10-11 May 2007; (15) Invited presentation at University of Verona, 11th June 2007; (14) Seminar at Paris 1 Sorbonne, workshop on collective model (C. Sofer); (13) Presentation on the Polish tax-benefit system, Praxis center, Tallinn, Estonia, 24th March 2006; (12) German Science Foundation conference, Bonn, 6th October 2005; (11) Invited discussant of the session Labor Markets (chairman: J. Pisani-Ferry) at French Economic Society (AFSE), 15th September 2005; (10) IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting, Buch Ammersee, 30th June-1st July 2005; (9) Meeting of the Social Situation Observatory, Tarki, Budapest, 18th April 2005; (8) Conference of the Global Development Network, Dakar, 23-26th January 2005; workshop on Labor Market Policies; (7) Invited discussant at the IZA Prize Conference "Frontiers in Labor Economics", Berlin, 24th October 2004; (6) Invited presentation at the European Commission, DG Research, Brussels, 27th September 2004, on the Micro Analysis of the European Social Agenda; (5) Invited presentation at the workshop on the Economics of the Family (Ekert-Jaffé organizer), INED, Paris, December 2003; (4) Invited presentation at the workshop on the Economics of the Family (Browning, Chiappori and Weiss organizers), Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, University of Copenhagen, 25-26th August 2003; (3) Invited expert for a debate on French tax-credit at OFCE ("Table ronde sur la Prime pour l’emploi"), Paris, 16th June 2003; (2) Presentation at the conference on the French experience of tax-benefit microsimulation, CNAF, Paris, 17th October 2002; (1) Summer school of the Universitat de les Illes Balears, June 2001.

T e a c h i n g & S u p e r v i s i o n

PhD supervision (date of jury for those who graduated)

2016-17 Jordan Loper (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University): “Essays on migration and power in the household, with application to Indonesia” (co-supervision with Roberta Ziparo, follow up by Christian Schluter after I moved to Bordeaux)

2015-19 Laila AitBihiOuali (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University): “Essays on labor market flexicurity”

2014-18 Audrey Etienne (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University): “Cooperatives and other essays on public versus private wage setting”

2014-? Adrien Pacifico (PhD student at Aix-Marseille University): “Essays on tax optimality and frequency” (co-supervision with Alain Trannoy)

2014 Jinan Zeidan (PhD from Aix-Marseille University, June 2014): “Essays on subjective well-being in developing countries” (now post-doc at McGill University, Canada)

2013 Claire Keane (PhD from University College Dublin, Sept. 2012): “Taxation and the Irish labour market” (now researcher at the ESRI, Dublin)

2012 Karina Doorley (PhD from University College Dublin, May 2012): “Three essays on employment and fiscal policy” (now researcher at IZA, Bonn).

2011 Prudence Kwenda (PhD from University College Dublin, May 2011): “Three essays on inequality and poverty in developing countries” (now lecturer at the University of South Africa)

2011-12 In collaboration with Andreas Peichl, informal supervision of a team of PhD students at IZA: Mathias Dolls (now researcher at ZEW, Mannheim), Dirk Neumann (now post-doc in Louvain), Sebastian Siegloch (now researcher at IZA, Bonn).

Referee at HDR jury (French degree for research supervision)

Oct. 2016 Isabelle Chort, Dauphine

Dec. 2015 Marie-Anne Valfort, Paris I Sorbonne

Oct. 2015 Nicolas Hérault, Melbourne University, HDR at Bordeaux Université

Sept. 2015 Mathieu Lefebvre, HDR at Strasbourg Université

Referee at PhD viva

2017 Jérôme Valette, CERDI (supervisor : Simone Bertoli)

2017 Brice Fabre, Paris School of Economics (supervisor : François Bourguignon)

2017 Alexander Wolf , Free University of Brussels (supervisor : Bram de Rock)

2016 Sylvain Chareyron, University Paris Est (supervisor : Yannick L’Horty and François Legendre)

2015 Imen Hentati, University Cergy-Pontoise (supervisor : Olivier Donni and Adel Karaa)

2015 Silvia Salazar, University Paris 1 Sorbonne (supervisor : François Gardes)

2014 Samia Badji, University Cergy-Pontoise (supervisor : Christelle Dumas, Olivier Donni)

2014 Tugba Zeydanli, Paris School of Economics (supervisor: Jean-Marc Bonnisseau and Pedro Vicente)

Regular university lectures

2015-16 Welfare Economics and the Political Economy of Redistribution (Master 2 AMSE), Policy Evaluation (Master 1 AMSE), Experience in Evaluation (Master 1 Applied Eco)

2014-15 Welfare Economics and the Political Economy of Redistribution (Master 2 AMSE), Econometric of the Labor market (Master 2 AMSE), Topics in Economics (1st year), Microeconometrics of Development (Master 2 AMSE), Policy Evaluation (Master 1 AMSE), Experience in Evaluation (Master 1 Applied Eco), Aix-Marseille

2012-15 Microeconometrics of Development (Master 2 AMSE, 24h), Policy Evaluation (Master 1 AMSE, 24h), Methods in Public Policy Evaluation (3rd year, Licence AES, 24h), Aix-Marseille

2011-12 Microeconomics (2nd year, 48h), Quants (3rd year, 24h), Topics in Economics (1st year, 24h), Aix-Marseille

2010-11 Labour economics (2nd year), Public economics (3rd year), Development economics (MA), UCD 2006-09 Economics of human behaviour (3rd year), Public economics (3rd year), Development economics

(MA), UCD 2006-07 Advanced microeconomic (PhD), UCD

Occasional lectures

Dec. 2011 Training on “Family Economics”, CEPS-INSTEAD, Luxembourg Dec. 2010 Training on “Applied Optimal Taxation”, CEPS-INSTEAD, Luxembourg Nov. 2008,09 Applied Public Economics (MA/PhD), University of Bonn Dec. 2007 Family economics, Geary Institute Oct. 2007 Household modelling (MA), Warsaw university

2006 Labour Economics (PhD), AERC, Nairobi. 2003-4 Family Economics (BA), ENSAE, Paris 2001-2 Economic policy (international students), ESCP-EAP, Paris.

Tutorials

2002-04 Econometrics, Macro- and Microeconomics (3rd year and MA), University of Cergy-Pontoise 2000-01 Firm theory (3rd year), University Paris II (Panthéon-Assas); Macroeconomics (1st year),

University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

R e s e a r c h f u n d i n g

As Principal Investigator

2017 Contract by the « Délégation Nationale à la Lutte contre la Fraude (DNLF) et Direction Générale des Entreprises (DGE) » (€14 K) to study tax evasion behavior in France

2016-17 Research funds (€18 K) by the city of Marseille to finance the ‘Institut d’Economie Publique’

2013 Research project "Decomposing changes in income distribution during the great the role of tax-benefit policy: an International Perspective", financed by the Observatoire National sur la Pauvreté et l'Exclusion Sociale (French Ministry of Social Affairs) (€20 K)

2009 Flagship award of the Combat Poverty Institute on ‘Working poor and in-work transfer policies’ (€40 K) – 1 year project

2008-09 Award of the Irish Research Council in Human and Social Sciences on ‘Optimal tax and social preferences in Ireland’ (€50 K.) – 2 year project

2007-08 Flagship award of the Combat Poverty Institute on ‘Child poverty: new measures, comparisons and policy implications tax’ (€40 K) – 1 year project

2006-07 SIMPL II (labour supply and taxation in Poland), co-organized with M. Myck (DIW) , L. Morawski and M. Socha (University of Warsaw); financed by Polish Ministries of Social Affairs, Labour and Finance (€100 K.) – 1 year project

2005-06 SIMPL (design of a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Poland), co-organized with M. Myck (DIW, University of Warsaw); financed by Polish Ministries of Social Affairs, Labor and Finance (€45 K.) – 1 year project

As Associate Investigator

2017 ANR Proposal FAMINEQ, coordinated by Olivier Donni (€342 360)

2011-13 NEUJOBS: FP7 project on taxation and labor supply – coordinator: IZA (€800 K.):

2008-09 Award of the Irish Research Council in Human and Social Sciences on ‘Inequalities and the New Economy’, coordinated by Brian Nolan (€200 K.):‘Optimal tax and social preferences in Ireland’

2007-09 ‘Distributive and efficiency concerns in tax-benefit policy design: empirical evidences, technical development and normative evaluations’ funded by the ANR (French national agency for research), in collaboration with T. Piketty, A. Spadaro and P.Y. Geoffard (€100 K).

2006-08 ICUE (Improving the Capacity and Usability of EUROMOD): a EU-funded project (DG research); coordinated by O. Lelkes at the European Center, Vienna..

2005-08 AIMAP (Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies): a 3-year EU-funded STREP project within FP6 (€1.5 M); coordinated by H. Sutherland at the University of Essex.

2004-2005 Member of the project “Guaranteed Income, a fundamental step in social policy in Europe’’, a CHILD project financed by Compagnia di San Paolo, coordinated by U. Colombino, University of Turin.

2002-2004 MICRESA (Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda), funded by the EC’s IHP program (€1.15 M.); coordinated by H. Sutherland at the University of Cambridge.

1999-2002 EUROMOD (a 15-country Europe-wide benefit-tax model), funded by the EC’s TSER program (1.18 M. Ecu); coordinated by H. Sutherland at the University of Cambridge.

2001 Member of the project “Welfare analysis of fiscal and social security reforms in Europe: does the representation of family decision process matter?”, financed by the EU, General Directorate for Employment and Social Affairs, grant VS/2000/0778; coordinated by F. Laisney at the ZEW, Germany.