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"David de la Croix (born 1964, PhD 1992) is Professor of Economics at UCLouvain (Belgium) and research fellow at CEPR. He has taught on a visiting basis at UCLA, Copenhagen, Aix-Marseille, Nanterre, Capetown, Săo Paulo, Taipei, Rostock, NYU Abu Dhabi and Poznań. He is the instigator and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Demographic Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, and was associate editor for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory.

His research interests cover demographic economics, human capital and growth with a long-run historical perspective, and conflicts between generations. He is mostly interested in understanding households’ incentives in the present and in the past. Working with 57 co-authors, he has published a number of research articles (including in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies), and a treatise on Economic Growth co-authored with Philippe Michel. He has also written a number of policy briefs addressed to a more general audience. And he has advised 21 doctoral dissertations.

In 2020, he received an ERC Advanced Grant to develop a new database of members of European universities and academies and analyze whether these scholars and literati did trigger the rise of the West through the humanistic, scientific, and industrial revolutions."

Curriculum Vitae: Full (en), Short (en), Short (fr).

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Ten most cited Publications (May 2020)

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De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, Inequality and growth: why differential fertility matters, American Economic Review, 93, 1091-1113, 2003 270 869
De la Croix D. and P. Michel, A Theory of Economic Growth: Dynamics and Policy in Overlapping Generations, Cambridge University Press, 2002 0 642
Boucekkine R., D. De la Croix and O. Licandro, Vintage human capital, demographic trends and growth, Journal of Economic Theory, 104, 340-375,2002 215 519
De la Croix D. and O. Licandro, Life expectancy and endogenous growth, Economics Letters, 65, 255-263, 1999 124 307
De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, Private versus public education when differential fertility matters, Journal of Development Economics, 73, 607-629, 2004 94 237
Boucekkine R., D. De la Croix and O. Licandro, Early mortality declines at the dawn of modern growth, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 105, 401-418, 2003 64 157
De la Croix D. and C. Delavallade, Growth, public investment and corruption with failing institutions, Economics of Governance, 10, 187-219, 2009 46 141
De la Croix D. and M. Doepke, To segregate or to integrate: education politics and democracy, Review of Economic Studies, 76, 597-628, 2009 43 124
Bouzahzah M., D. De la Croix and F. Docquier, Policy reforms and growth in computable OLG economics, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, 26, 2093-2113, 2003 32 114
Boucekkine R. ,D. De la Croix, and D. Peeters, Early literacy achievements, population density and the transition to modern growth, Journal of the European Economic Association, 5, 183-226, 2007 44 112