Paul Maarek

Political Economy, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Economics

• Less but Better? The Influence of Gender on Political Activity. 2025, with Nicolas Frémeaux, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (forthcoming)
• Can donors prevent aid misallocations? Evidence from Chinese and World Bank aid. 2024, with Pierre André and Fatoumata Tapo. World Development (forthcoming)
• Policy learning in polarized polities: The case of randomized controlled trials. 2023, with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci and Michael Dorsch. Journal of Development studies.
• Education, social capital and political participation: Evidence from school construction in Malian villages. 2023, with Pierre André, Economic Development and Cultural Change  
• What, where, who, and why? An empirical investigation of positionality in political science field experiments. 2022, with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci and Michael Dorsch., PS: Political Science & Politics
• Polarization, Employment and Minimum Wage: Evidence from European Local Labor Markets. 2021, with Elliot Moiteau, Labour Economics
• The Politics of Experimentation: Political Competition and Randomized Controlled Trials. 2021, with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci and Michael Dorsch. Journal of Comparative Economics
• Economic Downturns, Inequality and Democratic Improvements. 2020 , with Michael Dorsch, European Journal of Political Economy
• Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution. 2019, with Michael Dorsch. American Political Science Review
• Rent Extraction, Revolutionary Threat and Coups in Non-Democracies. 2018, with Michael Dorsch. Journal of Comparative Economics
• Income  taxation and the diversity of consumer goods: A political economy approach. 2018, with Renaud Bourles and Michael Dorsch. Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Labor share and Development. 2017, with Elsa Orgiazzi. World Bank Economic Review (accepted)
• Can the HOS model explain Changes in the Labor Share: A tale of Trade and Wage Rigidities. 2017 , with Bruno Decreuse.Economic Systems
• Rent Sharing and Workers Bargaining Power: An empirical Cross Country/Cross Industry Panel Analysis. 2017, with Philippe Askenazy and Gilbert Cette. Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Development and Regulation Under the Threat of Revolution. 2016, with Michael Dorsch and Karl Dunz . Journal of Comparative Economics
• FDI and the labor share in developing countries: A theory and some evidence. 2015, with Bruno Decreuse. Annals of Economics and Statistics
• Macro Shocks and Costly Political Actions in Non-Democracies. 2015, with Michael Dorsch and Karl Dunz. Public Choice
• Inefficient Predation and Political Transitions. 2014, with Michael Dorsch.  European Journal of Political Economy   
• A note on Economic Inequality and Democratization. 2014, with Michael Dorsch.  Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
• Currency Crises and the Labor Share. 2013, with Elsa Orgiazzi. Economica