Olivier B. Bargain

Research Fellow

Université de Bordeaux

olivier.bargain.eco@gmail.com

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Research Interests

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.

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IZA Publications

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8007

Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin

published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7862

Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (2), 351-373