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Olivier Bargain

Olivier Bargain

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
38
Citations
6738
World Ranking
2540
National Ranking
62

Overview

Olivier Bargain is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, particularly in areas intersecting sociology, political science, and economics. Their research output spans various interdisciplinary subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their scholarly work has focused on several key topics, including:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Bargain has published research in frequent venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development, Harvard Dataverse, and the AEA Randomized Controlled Trials series. These platforms reflect their engagement with both working papers and peer-reviewed journals in economics and social sciences.

Recent publications highlight their interest in public health policies, poverty, and economic behavior, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable papers include:

  • "Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19," 2020, Journal of Public Economics
  • "Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America," 2021, World Development
  • "Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of Covid-19," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Global terror, well-being and political attitudes," 2020, European Economic Review
  • "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing," 2021, The Economic Journal

Their research network includes frequent collaboration with several coauthors, counting multiple joint publications. Key collaborators include:

  • Ulugbek Aminjonov
  • Luca Tiberti
  • Maira Colacce
  • H. Xavier Jara
  • Alpaslan Akay

Olivier Bargain's work integrates quantitative methods and empirical investigation to explore how economic and social policies affect individual and household decisions, with a strong emphasis on compliance behavior and welfare outcomes. Their output reflects consistent contributions to the ongoing dialogue on social science issues, particularly those arising from contemporary global challenges.

Best Publications

  • Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19

    Olivier Bargain;Ulugbek Aminjonov

  • Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

    Olivier Bargain;Ulugbek Aminjonov

  • Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the United States: New Results

    Olivier Bargain;Kristian Orsini;Andreas Peichl

  • Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the United States: New Results

    Olivier Bargain;Kristian Orsini;Andreas Peichl

  • Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach

    Olivier Bargain;Tim Callan

  • Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

    Alpaslan Akay;Olivier Bargain;Klaus F. Zimmermann

  • In-work policies in Europe: killing two birds with one stone?

    Olivier Bargain;Kristian Orsini

  • The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

    Olivier Bargain;Prudence Kwenda

  • No claim, no pain: Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data

    Olivier Bargain;Herwig Immervoll;Heikki Viitamäki

  • EARNINGS STRUCTURES, INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT, AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT: NEW EVIDENCE FROM BRAZIL, MEXICO, AND SOUTH AFRICA

    Olivier Bargain;Prudence Kwenda

  • Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data

    Olivier Bargain;Blaise Melly

  • Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

    Olivier Bargain;Kristian Orsini;Andreas Peichl

  • Fiscal union in Europe? Redistributive and stabilizing effects of a European tax-benefit system and fiscal equalization mechanism

    Olivier Bargain;Mathias Dolls;Clemens Fuest;Dirk Neumann

  • “Making work pay” in a rationed labor market

    Olivier Bargain;Marco Caliendo;Peter Haan;Kristian Orsini

  • Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America.

    Olivier Bargain;Ulugbek Aminjonov

  • Expenditure on children: A Rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies and parents' bargaining $

    Olivier Bargain;Olivier Donni

  • Labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US

    Olivier Bargain;Kristian Orsini;Andreas Peichl

  • 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

  • Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland *

    Olivier Bargain;Libertad González;Claire Keane;Claire Keane;Berkay Özcan

  • Intrahousehold distribution and poverty: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire ☆

    Olivier Bargain;Olivier Donni;Prudence Kwenda

  • Collective models of labor supply with nonconvex budget sets and nonparticipation: A calibration approach

    Frederic Vermeulen;Olivier Bargain;M. Beblo;D. Beninger

  • Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations

    Olivier Bargain

  • Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise

    Olivier Bargain;Nicolas Moreau

  • The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self-employed Workers

    Olivier Bargain;Eliane El Badaoui;Prudence Kwenda;Eric Strobl

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Neumann
Dirk Neumann University of Freiburg
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Clemens Fuest
Clemens Fuest Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University
Marco Caliendo
Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam
Solomon W. Polachek
Solomon W. Polachek Binghamton University

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