Project - Health and autonomy
Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state (PENSINEQ)The main research objective is to document how inequalities in ageing – such as those between the rich and the poor and those between men and women (…)
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Project - Pensions
Deaton Review Country Studies : A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of Inequalities in Incomes and Outcomes over Five DecadesIssues Inequalities are at the forefront of today’s public and policy debates. It’s important to tackle this issue with a larger scope to understand inequality not just (…)
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Project - Tax system
Evaluation of in-work benefits increasesMotivation: During the last decades, in-work benefits have get a growing place in tax and benefit systems. These benefits, targeting the working population, aim at increasing financial (…)
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Project - Firms
Impact of the wealth tax (ISF) on the economic environmentMotivation: Implemented from 1988 to 2017, the wealth tax (ISF) was the only tax on the net stock of wealth in France that was both progressive and (…)
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Project - Employment
Understanding the functioning of the labour market through skills measurementMotivation: Several explanations have been put forward to explain the relatively high level of unemployment in France. Besides labour market rigidities, the structural lack of certain skills, often referred to (…)
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Project - Pensions
Microsimulation of complementary pensions in the private sector in the long runMotivation: The organisation “Agirc-Arrco”, which manages complementary pensions of employees in the private sector in France, allocates 77 billion euros of pensions per year, and covers 70% (…)
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Project - Tax system
New tools to simulate the French tax and benefit systemMotivation: This project aims at developing a new microsimulation tool of the French tax and benefit system based on extensive administrative data. The underlying motivation is that (…)
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Project - Pensions
From one generation to the next : gender pension gaps in the private and public sectorMotivation: Pension inequalities between men and women became an important issue in France. Women’s pensions are on average lower by 40% to men’s among private sector retirees. (…)
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Project - Pensions
Dynamic microsimulation of the pension regime of French local government workers and public hospital employeesMotivation: The pensions of French local government workers and public hospital employees cost around € 15 billion annually. Given the volume of this public spending, it is (…)
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Project - Employment
Evaluating the effect of part-time work on job seekers’ unemployment durationMotivation : In France, like in many countries, job seekers have the possibility to cumulate the income from a part-time job with some of their unemployment benefits, (…)
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Project - Health and autonomy
TAXIPP-LIFE microsimulation modelThe TAXIPP-LIFE model provides projects the French population over the long-term (50 years projections), modelling individual trajectories, and changes to the tax and benefit system, as well (…)
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Project - Pensions
PENSIPP – dynamic micro-simulation model of the French pension systemMotivation: PENSIPP is a simulator that calculates the pensions of the French pension system. It allows to measure the impact of past reforms on the one hand, and (…)
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Project - Firms
Economic impact of the French Research Tax Credit (CIR)Motivation: With an annual tax expenditure of over 6 billion euros, the French Research Tax Credit (credit d’impôt recherche, CIR) is the main policy to support innovation (…)
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Project - Housing and regional development
Housing benefits reform and income measurement for social benefitsMotivation: The French housing benefits reform, entering into force on January 1st 2021, consists in making these transfers depend on income of the last twelve months, rather (…)
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Project - Housing and regional development
Reallocation of local taxes and local tax base updatingMotivation: The French government announced in 2017 the housing tax (HT) removing on primary residences for 80% of households, before deciding to completely remove this tax. This (…)
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Project - Firms
The Heterogeneity of Implicit Tax Rates on Profits in France: Descriptive Findings and Explanatory FactorsMotivation: The French statutory corporate income tax (CIT) rate, i.e. the rate set by the law that applies to corporate income, is among the highest in the (…)
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Project - Firms
The impact of CIFRE PhDs (Industrial Research Training Conventions) on firms’ R&D, the employment of PhD graduates, and public-private research partnershipsMotivation : what are the effects of such an atypical innovation policy which subsidizes firms to associate a PhD student to their research activities, thus bonding public and (…)
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Project - Education
Improving social diversity in middle schools : an evaluation of a new school choice mechanism in ParisEnjeux : Face au constat du creusement des inégalités sociales entre les établissements d’enseignement secondaire, le ministère de l’Education nationale a engagé en 2016 une démarche visant renforcer (…)
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Project - Firms
Corporate governance and firm performance« Effects of a change in management, ownership or control on firms’ performances » Motivation: Since 2003, several fiscal measures have been put into place in order to reduce (…)
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Project - Education
Social Diversity in Selective Higher Education in France« Have French selective higher education programs diversified their recruitment process since the 2000’s ? » Motivation: In the early 2000s, several studies and reports have highlighted that (…)
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Project - Tax system
Simulation of basic income« Mieux connaître les bas revenus et simuler la mise en place d’un revenu de base » Enjeux : En 2016, l’idée d’un revenu de base, aussi appelé revenu universel, (…)
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Project - Health and autonomy
Policies for longer working lives« Policies for longer working lives: understanding interactions with health and care responsibilities » Motivation: Study the link between working lives, health, and caring responsibilities. It should (…)
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Project - Environment
Estimating the effects of State aid provided by ADEME“Estimating the effects of State aid provided by ADEME on the R&D and corporate performance” Motivation: The Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) is one (…)
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Project - Housing and regional development
Evaluation of French Homeownership policiesMotivation : Since 1945, supporting homeownership is an important part of the French housing policy. Several tools aiming at helping households in the purchase of their property are (…)
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Project - Tax system
Assessing the gender impact of tax and benefit reformsMotivation: Even though most of the taxes’ and benefits’ rules apply to men and women equally, we can expect some taxes or benefits to affect men and (…)
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Project - Health and autonomy
Old-age Dependency and Long-Term Care Chair« Modelling long-term care at old age – Chair » Chair being established Motivation : The French live longer and longer in good health so far, but a (…)
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Project - Tax system
Labour market responses to taxes: a structural approachMotivation: Fiscal policy has been used for more than twenty years in France with the objective to foster employment of low-wage workers. Meanwhile, the average tax burden (…)
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Project - Environment
Modeling French fuel taxesMotivation: The fuel taxation system is a key element of the French tax system for several reasons. First, the TICPE (tax on energetic products, whose fuel taxes (…)
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Project - Employment
The Impact of Gender Diversity on Firm PerformanceMotivation : Even if nowadays women study on average longer and are more qualified than men, they remain largely disadvantaged on the labor market: they usually have lower-pay (…)
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Project - Housing and regional development
Reforming French housing benefitsMotivation: French housing benefits are a very substantial part of both housing policy and social policy. They aim both to improve the affordability of housing for low (…)
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Project - Employment
Estimating the impact of the new offering of services to job-seekers at Pôle EmploiMotivation: This project studies the support and placement services offered by Pôle Emploi, and in particular, the new services offered to job-seekers in 2013. Project: Since the (…)
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Project - Education
Evaluation of a Summer school programme supported for underachieving kindergarten pupilsMotivation: In France, every year there are 120,000 students leaving second grade without knowing how to read. In order to tackle this problem, mostly prevalent amongst disadvantaged (…)
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Project - Education
Evaluation of an in-service teacher training on reading at preschool« Evaluation of an in-service teacher training on reading at preschool (5 year olds) » Motivation: The LECTURE program aims at improving the teaching skills of Kindergarten (…)
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Project - Health and autonomy
SIEL BLEU project – Fonds Danone pour l’EcosystèmeMotivation: The general motivation of the project is to evaluate the impact of workout programs dedicated to elderly people. Project: This project aims at evaluating the workout (…)
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Project - Pensions
Estimating retirement models for French civil servantsMotivation : This project aims to estimate models of retirement decisions on the population of French civil servants. Project : The aims of this project is to (…)
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Project - Competition policy
Impact of open access policy in humanities and social sciencesMotivation : What is the optimal embargo time for publication in humanities and social science? After how long would it be best to implement open access to publications (…)
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Project - Pensions
Reforming family-related pension benefitsMotivation : The aim of this project is to analyse the family-related pension benefits within the French pension system and to simulate various policy changes using the dynamic (…)
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Project - Pensions
Analysis of non-statutory employment in the French public sectorMotivation: Non statutory employment represents a significant and growing share of public sector employment in France. The objective of the project is to analyse the determinants to (…)
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Project - Competition policy
What evolution for the unit cost of financial intermediation in Europe?Motivation : This project aims at providing new evidence on the evolution of the unit cost of financial intermediation in Europe. Because the output of financial intermediation (…)
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Project - Education
Impact evaluation of student assignment procedures“Impact evaluation of student assignment procedures on the social and educational diversity of high schools in the Île-de-France region” The social and educational diversity of public and (…)
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Project - Firms
The impact of the research tax credit« The Impact of the research tax credit on R&D and innovation: evidence from French firms » Motivation: The “Crédit impôt recherche (CIR)” is a research tax (…)
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Project - Education
Impact evaluation of social and educational programmes for disadvantaged students (PRE)Motivation : Those programmes take care of children that face family, social or school issues and they organize multidimensional interventions towards children and their family. It is (…)
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Project - Tax system
The Impact of Social Security Contributions on Earnings« The Impact of Social Security Contributions on Earnings: Evidence from administrative data in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK » Motivation: Incidence of social security contributions, (…)
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