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François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon

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Economics and Finance
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
71
Citations
32272
World Ranking
438
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 1986 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

François Bourguignon is affiliated with the Paris School of Economics in France, where their research focuses primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work extensively covers topics in international development and aid, poverty, education, child welfare, income inequality, fiscal policy, economic growth, religion and development, as well as intergenerational and educational inequality studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Inequality bands: seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America, 2024, Oxford Open Economics
  • Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation, 2020, The Economic Journal
  • Aid allocation: The role of external discipline, 2021, International Economics
  • On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves, 2023, The Journal of Economic Inequality
  • Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Bourguignon has published frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Oxford Open Economics
  • The Economic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic Inequality
  • International Economics

Their collaborations include multiple works with:

  • Jean-Philippe Platteau
  • Selim Raihan
  • Facundo Alvaredo
  • Francisco H. G. Ferreira
  • Nora Lustig

Bourguignon's book publications are associated with renowned presses, including Cambridge University Press for "Institutional Challenges at the Early Stages of Development" (2023) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for "Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?: The Institutional Diagnostic Project" (2024).

Their research spans several subfields such as sociology and political science, development, safety research, economics and econometrics, and information systems. The interdisciplinary approach reflects an integration of economic analysis with social and institutional considerations.

Bourguignon's work has been recognized by professional societies, including election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1986 and as a Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty

    François Bourguignon;Satya R. Chakravarty

  • Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992

    François Bourguignon;Christian Morrisson

  • DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES

    Francois Bourguignon

  • Incomes and Outcomes: A structural Model of Intra-Household Allocation

    Martin Browning;François Bourguignon;Pierre Chiappori;Valérie Lechene

  • The Poverty-growth-inequality triangle

    François Bourguignon

  • The Comparison of Multi-Dimensioned Distributions of Economic Status

    A. B. Atkinson;F. Bourguignon

  • Oligarchy, democracy, inequality and growth

    François Bourguignon;Thierry Verdier

  • SELECTION BIAS CORRECTIONS BASED ON THE MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL: MONTE CARLO COMPARISONS

    François Bourguignon;Martin Fournier;Marc Gurgand

  • Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil

    François Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Marta Menéndez

  • The Globalization of Inequality

    François Bourguignon

  • Microsimulation as a Tool for Evaluating Redistribution Policies

    François Bourguignon;Amedeo Spadaro

  • Aid Effectiveness – Opening the Black Box

    François Bourguignon;Mark Sundberg

  • Inequality and development: the role of dualism

    François Bourguignon;Christian Morrisson

  • Conditional cash transfers, schooling, and child labor : micro-simulating Brazil's bolsa escola program

    Francois Bourguignon;Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Phillippe G. Leite

  • Income distribution, development and foreign trade: A cross-sectional analysis∗☆

    F. Bourguignon;C. Morrisson

  • Intra Household Allocation of Consumption: a Model and some Evidence from French Data

    F Bourguignon;PA Chiappori;M Browning;Lechene

  • Empirical studies of earnings mobility

    A. B. Atkinson;François Bourguignon;Christian Morrisson

  • The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Francois Bourguignon;Nora Lusting

  • Introduction: Income distribution and economics

    A.B. Atkinson;F. Bourguignon

  • Handbook of income distribution

    Anthony B Atkinson;Anthony B Atkinson;François Bourguignon

  • The growth elasticity of poverty reduction : explaining heterogeneity across countries and time periods

    François Bourguignon

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
Thierry Verdier
Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Jean-Philippe Platteau University of Namur
Anthony B. Atkinson
Anthony B. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science
Pierre-André Chiappori
Pierre-André Chiappori Columbia University
Satya R. Chakravarty
Satya R. Chakravarty Indian Statistical Institute
Holly Sutherland
Holly Sutherland University of Essex
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Finn E. Kydland
Finn E. Kydland Norwegian School of Economics
Gary S. Fields
Gary S. Fields Cornell University

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