Paul Maarek

Biographic Data

ID1010638
NAMEPaul Maarek
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEMaarek
SIGNATUREMAAREK P
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Paris-Panthéon-Assas
ORCID0000-0001-6593-4179
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS22
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The youth dividend

    Open AccessRédha Chaba, Michael T Dorsch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2026

    This paper revisits the political economy of transitions to democracy. We extend a canonical rational choice model of democratization by introducing demographic structure, arguing that it shapes the material incentives for political mobilization. Younger cohorts benefit from democratic change over a longer horizon and face lower costs of participation, as they are less economically and socially integrated. As a result, increases in the youth shar…

  • Less but better? The influence of gender on political activity

    Open AccessNicolas Frémeaux, Paul MaarekARTICLEJournal of Economic Behavior &…2025References: 19

  • Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities

    Open AccessCristina Corduneanu-Huci, Michael T Dorsch et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2024

    This paper provides a political-economic analysis of policy evaluation. We focus on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) as a subset of policy evaluations and argue that they are used instrumentally by decision-makers in order to improve perceptions of reforms and help secure policy legacy. We theorize that this ’credibility premium’ is more valuable for incumbents in politically polarized societies, which we empirically examine using two methods.…

  • Can donors prevent aid misallocations? Evidence from Chinese and World Bank aid

    Open AccessPierre André, Paul Maarek et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2024Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Education, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation

    Pierre André, Paul MaarekARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2023References: 38

    We estimate whether opening of new schools increases educational attainment and affects civic engagement, political participation, and political selection in Malian villages. We compare the differences in educational attainment between individuals below and above the age of 9 as of school opening date by using a donut regression discontinuity design. Opening of schools drastically increases school enrollment. Using this exogenous variation in sch…

  • What, Where, Who, and Why? An Empirical Investigation of Positionality in Political Science Field Experiments

    Open AccessCristina Corduneanu-Huci, Michael T Dorsch et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2022Cited by: 2References: 22

    International audience

  • Economic downturns, inequality, and democratic improvements

    Open AccessMichael T Dorsch, Paul MaarekARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2020

  • Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution

    Open AccessMichael T Dorsch, Paul MaarekARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review2019Cited by: 16References: 71

    Despite strong theoretical reasons to expect that democratization equalizes income distributions, existing empirical studies do not find a statistically significant effect of democratization on measures of income inequality. This paper starts from the simple observation that autocracies are heterogeneous and govern quite extreme distributional outcomes (also egalitarian). Democratization may drive extreme income distributions to a "middle ground.…

  • Rent‐Sharing and Workers' Bargaining Power

    Open AccessP Askenazy, Gilbert Cette et al.ARTICLEScandinavian Journal of Economics2017

    In this paper, we study how rents are shared between capital and labour, using industry‐level panel data for 19 OECD countries from 1988 through to 2007. The first step is an explanation of the rent‐creation process. We provide evidence of a significant impact of regulation on value‐added prices at the industry level relative to the value‐added price for the overall economy (rent). In the second step, we dissect the value‐added sharing process. B…

  • Macro shocks and costly political action in non-democracies

    Open AccessMichael T Dorsch, Karl Dunz et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2015Cited by: 2References: 32

  • Currency Crises and the Labour Share

    Open AccessPaul Maarek, Elsa OrgiazziARTICLEEconomica2013Cited by: 1References: 27

    This paper analyses the impact of currency crises on the labour share and identifies two main types of channel: within‐ and across‐sector effects. First crises erode the bargaining power of workers so that within sectors, crises lower the labour share. Nevertheless, structural changes occurring during currency crises may change the aggregate level of the labour share if sectors differ in their capital intensities. We perform estimations on manufa…

  • Rent Building, Rent Sharing

    Open AccessP Askenazy, Gilbert Cette et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012

  • Rent Building, Rent Sharing - A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis

    Open AccessPhilippe Askenazy, Gilbert Cette et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012

  • FDI and the labor share in developing countries

    Bruno Decreuse, Decreuse Decreuse et al.ARTICLEMunich Personal RePEc Archive…2008

    This paper addresses the impact of FDI on the labor share of income in developing countries.\nWe propose a theory that relies on the impacts of FDI on productive heterogeneity between firms\nin a frictional labor market. We argue that FDI have two opposite effects on the labor share: a\nnegative force originated by market power and technological advance, and a positive force due to\nincreased labor market competition between firms. Then, we test …