Fabrice Murtin
Biographic Data
| ID | 270214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabrice Murtin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Murtin |
| SIGNATURE | MURTIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5479-9191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What explains trust in institutions? Multi-disciplinary evidence from an international survey
In many countries, trust in institutions has eroded, undermining civic engagement, social cohesion, and political stability. This study analyzes the determinants of trust in government, civil servants, the judicial system, and the police, drawing on representative samples from six OECD countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) between 2017 and early 2020. It employs survey data, experimental methods, a…
Educational inequalities in deaths of despair in 14 OECD countries: A cross-sectional observational study
BACKGROUND: Deaths of despair are a key contributor to stagnating life expectancy in the USA, especially among those without a university-level education, but these findings have not been compared internationally. METHODS: Mortality and person-year population exposure data were collected in 14 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and cause of death. The sample i…
Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies
This paper examines the determinants of early school leaving (ESL) in a panel of 371 regions of OECD countries observed between 1998 and 2019. The empirical analysis includes both local factors previously emphasized by micro‐economic studies and national‐level factors such as education policies. We find that labor market opportunities for young people, as captured by the youth unemployment rate or the size of low‐skill sectors, can pull students …
The determinants of trust: Findings from large, representative samples in six OECD countries
Trust is key for economic and social development. But why do we trust others? We study the motives behind trust in strangers using an experimental trust game played by 7236 participants, in six samples representative of the general populations of Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA. We examine the broadest range of potential determinants of trustor sending to date, including risk tolerance, preferences for redistribution, and co…
Changes in longevity inequality by education among OECD countries before the Covid-19 pandemic
Not applicable
The Geography of Multi-dimensional Poverty in France
Educational inequalities in longevity in 18 OECD countries
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educational attainment, and, for 17 countries, cause of death were collected from national sources, with similar treatment applied to all countries in order to derive comparable measures of longevity at age 25 and 65 by gender and education. These estimates show that, on average, the gap in life …
Well‐being during the Great Recession: New evidence from a measure of multi‐dimensional living standards with heterogeneous preferences
We develop a distribution‐adjusted welfare measure that aggregates income, unemployment, and longevity using individual weights that reflect heterogeneous preferences. The measure is implemented for 28 OECD countries for 2008–2013 to gauge the welfare effects of the Great Recession. Estimated shadow prices of one percentage point of unemployment and one year of longevity average 3.1 percent and 5.7 percent of household income, respectively. We fi…
Where are the highest living standards? Measuring well-being and inclusiveness in OECD regions
This paper assesses the levels and trends in living standards across regions in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from the early 2000s to 2012. It applies a measure of welfare called multidimensional living standards (MDLS) at the regional level. The MDLS builds on the equivalent-income approach by combining monetary income with non-monetary (health and jobs) outcomes and taking into account how such outcomes…
A rational, economic model of paygo tax rates
The effects of input tariffs on productivity: Panel data evidence for OECD countries
The democratic transition
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and to a weaker extent per capita income levels, are strong determinants of the quality of pol…
Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000
This paper analyzes the long-term economic determinants of the demographic transition using a large panel of countries since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of economic development. As predicted by unified growth theory, I find that primary schooling, rather than income or health-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regar…
The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010
Inégalités et pauvreté depuis trois siècles
Les inegalites sont plus aujourd’hui que dans le passe au cœur des debats aussi bien dans les pays avances qu’en Chine. On s’indigne a propos d’ecarts de revenus toujours plus grands dans ces pays tandis que le discours ancien sur les inegalites croissantes de revenu moyen entre pays est encore repete par les organisations internationales et les media. Cependant, comme nous le montrerons, pour la premiere fois depuis trois siecles les inegalites …
The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe, 1950-2000: Expansion and Convergence of Schooling
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over 1950–2000. We show that a convergence process has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenon is the existence of decreasing aggregate returns to education that have limited the extension of compulsory schooling. Then we test whether convergence holds when confronted with other explanations describ…
American education in the age of mass migrations 1870–1930
What Determines Productivity in Senegal? Sectoral Disparities and the Dual Labour Market
This paper analyses the output gap between the formal and informal sectors in Senegal using a matched employer–employee database. While the production process in some informal sub-sectors is similar to the one in the formal sector, there is evidence that the economy is deeply cleaved between productive and non-productive firms within the informal sector and between voluntary and involuntary jobs on a labour market which proves to be dual. We find…
The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe, 1950-2000: Expansion and Convergence of Schooling
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over 1950–2000. We show that a convergence process has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenon is the existence of decreasing aggregate returns to education that have limited the extension of compulsory schooling. Then we test whether convergence holds when confronted with other explanations describ…
Where are the highest living standards? Measuring well-being and inclusiveness in OECD regions
This paper assesses the levels and trends in living standards across regions in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from the early 2000s to 2012. It applies a measure of welfare called multidimensional living standards (MDLS) at the regional level. The MDLS builds on the equivalent-income approach by combining monetary income with non-monetary (health and jobs) outcomes and taking into account how such outcomes…
The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010
Inégalités et pauvreté depuis trois siècles
Les inegalites sont plus aujourd’hui que dans le passe au cœur des debats aussi bien dans les pays avances qu’en Chine. On s’indigne a propos d’ecarts de revenus toujours plus grands dans ces pays tandis que le discours ancien sur les inegalites croissantes de revenu moyen entre pays est encore repete par les organisations internationales et les media. Cependant, comme nous le montrerons, pour la premiere fois depuis trois siecles les inegalites …
What Determines Productivity in Senegal? Sectoral Disparities and the Dual Labour Market
This paper analyses the output gap between the formal and informal sectors in Senegal using a matched employer–employee database. While the production process in some informal sub-sectors is similar to the one in the formal sector, there is evidence that the economy is deeply cleaved between productive and non-productive firms within the informal sector and between voluntary and involuntary jobs on a labour market which proves to be dual. We find…
American education in the age of mass migrations 1870–1930
The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe, 1950-2000: Expansion and Convergence of Schooling
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over 1950–2000. We show that a convergence process has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenon is the existence of decreasing aggregate returns to education that have limited the extension of compulsory schooling. Then we test whether convergence holds when confronted with other explanations describ…
The Kuznets curve of human capital inequality: 1870–2010
Inégalités et pauvreté depuis trois siècles
Les inegalites sont plus aujourd’hui que dans le passe au cœur des debats aussi bien dans les pays avances qu’en Chine. On s’indigne a propos d’ecarts de revenus toujours plus grands dans ces pays tandis que le discours ancien sur les inegalites croissantes de revenu moyen entre pays est encore repete par les organisations internationales et les media. Cependant, comme nous le montrerons, pour la premiere fois depuis trois siecles les inegalites …
Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000
This paper analyzes the long-term economic determinants of the demographic transition using a large panel of countries since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of economic development. As predicted by unified growth theory, I find that primary schooling, rather than income or health-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regar…
The democratic transition
Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and to a weaker extent per capita income levels, are strong determinants of the quality of pol…
A rational, economic model of paygo tax rates
The effects of input tariffs on productivity: Panel data evidence for OECD countries
Where are the highest living standards? Measuring well-being and inclusiveness in OECD regions
This paper assesses the levels and trends in living standards across regions in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from the early 2000s to 2012. It applies a measure of welfare called multidimensional living standards (MDLS) at the regional level. The MDLS builds on the equivalent-income approach by combining monetary income with non-monetary (health and jobs) outcomes and taking into account how such outcomes…
Well‐being during the Great Recession: New evidence from a measure of multi‐dimensional living standards with heterogeneous preferences
We develop a distribution‐adjusted welfare measure that aggregates income, unemployment, and longevity using individual weights that reflect heterogeneous preferences. The measure is implemented for 28 OECD countries for 2008–2013 to gauge the welfare effects of the Great Recession. Estimated shadow prices of one percentage point of unemployment and one year of longevity average 3.1 percent and 5.7 percent of household income, respectively. We fi…
Educational inequalities in longevity in 18 OECD countries
This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data on mortality rates by age, gender, educational attainment, and, for 17 countries, cause of death were collected from national sources, with similar treatment applied to all countries in order to derive comparable measures of longevity at age 25 and 65 by gender and education. These estimates show that, on average, the gap in life …
Changes in longevity inequality by education among OECD countries before the Covid-19 pandemic
Not applicable
The Geography of Multi-dimensional Poverty in France
Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies
This paper examines the determinants of early school leaving (ESL) in a panel of 371 regions of OECD countries observed between 1998 and 2019. The empirical analysis includes both local factors previously emphasized by micro‐economic studies and national‐level factors such as education policies. We find that labor market opportunities for young people, as captured by the youth unemployment rate or the size of low‐skill sectors, can pull students …
The determinants of trust: Findings from large, representative samples in six OECD countries
Trust is key for economic and social development. But why do we trust others? We study the motives behind trust in strangers using an experimental trust game played by 7236 participants, in six samples representative of the general populations of Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA. We examine the broadest range of potential determinants of trustor sending to date, including risk tolerance, preferences for redistribution, and co…
Educational inequalities in deaths of despair in 14 OECD countries: A cross-sectional observational study
BACKGROUND: Deaths of despair are a key contributor to stagnating life expectancy in the USA, especially among those without a university-level education, but these findings have not been compared internationally. METHODS: Mortality and person-year population exposure data were collected in 14 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and cause of death. The sample i…
What explains trust in institutions? Multi-disciplinary evidence from an international survey
In many countries, trust in institutions has eroded, undermining civic engagement, social cohesion, and political stability. This study analyzes the determinants of trust in government, civil servants, the judicial system, and the police, drawing on representative samples from six OECD countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) between 2017 and early 2020. It employs survey data, experimental methods, a…
Economics (15 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Population (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Inequality (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works)