Projects
An Ancestor’s tale: 200 years of wealth inequality, persistence, and redistribution. KU Leuven
Lady Justice’s Thresholds: Access to and Inequality in Early Modern Law Courts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Power Attracts The Worst: The Impact of Vertical Resource Inequality on Self-Serving Leadership and How to Curb It Ghent University
The primary objective of the proposed research is to establish whether the distribution of resources within organizations incentivizes different types of leadership strategies, such that higher levels of vertical inequality attract and favor self-serving rather than group-serving leaders. The end result is that inequality leads to self-serving leadership. The project examines features of modern organizations that facilitate the emergence of ...
Gender inequality in the labor market: The role of flexible jobs KU Leuven
When analysing household behaviour, economists have traditionally relied on the ‘unitary’ model, where the household is assumed to maximize a unique utility function. However, it is by now well understood that, when applied to couples, the unitary approach fails when brought to the data. This has led to the development of what is now known as the ‘collective’ model. The collective model acknowledges that the household is a collective of ...
Wealth inequality and mobility in Mechelen in the very long run, 1500-1960. University of Antwerp
An empirical investigation of how corporate financialization, wealth inequality and the distribution of stakeholder power shape aggregate demand, interact with ECB policies and influence the climate transition. Ghent University
We will
1. document corporate financialization in the Euro Area, test its impact on investments, inequality and demand.
2. investigate how QE contributed to these trends and how the unequal distribution of stakeholder power hampers the ECB in reaching its target.
3. analyze the risks and opportunities of corporate financialization, wealth inequalities and current monetary policies for the climate transition.
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Ghent University
INEQKILL focuses on a crucial dimension of inequality in society, the disparity in death, coined ‘ultimate inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the origin and ...
Uptake: Socio-spatial inequality among families with children with disabilities who are entitled to cash benefits and welfare services. KU Leuven
Our aim for this project is to strengthen the basis for future international funding e.g. from the EU, by involving researchers from Belgium, France, and the US in our expert advisory board for the socio-spatial inequality among families with children with disabilities who are entitled to cash benefits and welfare services.
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers
of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)
and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the ...