Research
Publications in refereed journals
What lies behind France’s low level of income inequality? with Bozio Antoine, Tô Maxime and Puschnig Lukas, Fiscal Studies, Forthcoming.
- Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the U.S. with Bozio Antoine, Bertrand Garbinti, Goupille-Lebret Jonathan and Piketty Thomas, AEJ Applied Economics, Vol. 16, N°2, April 2024.
- CEPR Discussion paper #15415, October 2020
- WIL working paper, September 2018
- IPP-WIL Policy Brief, September 2018
- Selected press coverage: Le 1 hebdo, Le Monde, France info
The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France with Antoine Bozio and Thomas Breda, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 226, October 2023, 104986.
Designing Housing Benefits: An Application with French Data with Antoine Bozio, Marion Monnet and Lucile Romanello; Economie et Prévision, No 211-212, 2018
Portée et limites du modèle Taxipp pour l’analyse redistributive des prélèvements obligatoires with Antoine Bozio and Quentin Lafféter; Economie et Statistique, No. 481-482, pp. 39-53, December 2015.
French public finances through the financial crisis: it’s a long way to recovery with Mathias André, Antoine Bozio and Louise Paul-Delvaux, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2015.
- The inner quality of an article: Will time tell? with Ho Fai Chan, Lionel Page and Benno Torgler, Scientometrics, Vol. 104, Issue 1 pp 19-41, July 2015.
Working papers
- Is Charitable Giving Political? New Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns, with Julia Cagé (Science po).
- Tax Incidence Among the Working Superrich. Evidence From the French 75% Tax on Millionaires,
Work in progress
- The Effect of Tax Incentives on Firms’ Charitable Donations in France; with Julia CAGE, Agathe DENIS and Camille URVOY.
- Wage Incidence: Evidence from a Sectoral Tax in France, with Sophie Cottet
- Journalism Quality, with Elliott Ash, Julia Cagé and Nicolas Hervé
- Institutional Determinants of Tax Complexity: Evidence from the US State Legislated Text, with Elliott Ash
Projects
- Project partner “Institutional Foundations of Industrialization, Financialization, and Globalization of the Swiss Economy. Evidence from 140 Years of the Commercial Registry”. Sinergia Project joint with Elliott Ash (ETH), Marco d’Ambros (USI) and Tina Freyburg (UNISG). [Project description].
- Project partner “Tax-benefit design and family composition: trading off efficiency and equity”. ARC Project (Saint-Louis University Bruxelles) joint with Marc Bourgeois (Liège University), Koen Declercq (USLB), Sabine Garoy (Liège University) Hélène Latzer (USLB), Tom Truyts (USLB).
Reports and policy briefs
Inequality in France: 1968–2022 with Antoine Bozio, Lukas Puschnig and Maxime Tô, Report in the context of the Institute for fiscal studies Deaton Review, 2023.
Reforming French housing benefits, with Antoine Bozio, Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet, Marion Monnet and Lucile Romanello, Rapport IPP 10, 2015.
French budget 2016 : the difficult control of public spending, with Mahdi Ben Jelloul, Antoine Bozio, Sophie Cottet, Marion Monnet and Lucile Romanello, IPP Policy Brief, n°21, novembre 2015.
Reforming French housing benefits: why not merging benefits?, with Antoine Bozio, Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet, Marion Monnet and Lucile Romanello, IPP Policy Brief, n°18, June 2015.
1914-2014: one hundred years of French income tax, with Mathias André, IPP Policy Brief, n°13, July 2014.
French Budget 2014: the impact of the new tax measures?, with Antoine Bozio and Marianne Tenand, IPP Policy Brief, n°9, November 2013.
- Press coverage: Liberation, Le Parisien
Book
- Les allocations logement. Comment les réformer ?, with Antoine Bozio, Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet, Marion Monnet and Lucile Romanello, Editions Rue d’Ulm, Presses de l’Ecole normale supérieure, Collection Cepremap, 2015