Our team

Marion LETURCQ coordinates the project. She is a tenured researcher at INED, where she is co-head of the Economic Demography research unit. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. She received in 2015 a prize by the Fondation des Sciences Sociales for her work in gender wealth inequality. She specializes in the study of gender inequalities within the household (wealth and wage, labor force supply), using a wide range of methods and data (repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal data, employers’ data, evaluation of public policies), and national context (UK, France, Canada, Germany).

Benjamin BASA is a trainee administrator at Insee and is involved in the WIDE project as part of his master’s thesis, which focuses on inequalities in intergenerational transmissions, as well as gender disparities in asset returns.

Stéphane BENVENISTE is a post-doctoral fellow at Ined for the WIDE project, and an associate faculty at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), where he received his PhD in Economics. His research interests concern inequality over the life course, intergenerational mobility and socio-economic history, with applications to educational and wealth inequalities.

Céline BESSIÈRE is a Professor of sociology at Paris-Dauphine university. She studies the material, economic and legal dimensions of family, in particular through the analysis of inheritance, marital breakdown and family businesses. She published in various academic journals. With Sibylle GOLLAC, they published in 2020 Le genre du capital. Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, Paris : La Découverte, which was translated in English in 2023.

Carole BONNET is senior researcher at Ined, where she is co-head of the Economic Demography research unit. She is an economist specialized in the study of retirement systems and their redistributive aspects. She has studied gender inequality in pensions and the link between family events and retirement.

Nicolas FRÉMEAUX is an associate professor in economics (maître de conférences). He is interested in income and wealth distribution, inheritance, and matching on the marriage market. He and Marion LETURCQ have worked extensively on gender wealth inequality and marriage contracts. He published a book, Les Nouveaux Héritiers, Ed. Seuil (coll. La République des Idées).

Bertrand GARBINTI is an economist, researcher at CREST, professor at ENSAE, and research fellow at Ined. He studies income and wealth inequality, taxation, public economics and economics of the family. He has worked on the use of fiscal data for the measurement of income and wealth inequality, as well as the effect of family events on the dynamic of inequality.

Sibylle GOLLAC is a full-time researcher in sociology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her work focuses on the importance of inheritance in the way class- and gender-based social relations are reproduced within the family, combining ethnographic approaches and statistical analyses. She published in various academic journals. With Céline BESSIÈRE, they published in 2020 Le genre du capital. Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, Paris : La Découverte, which was translated in English in 2023.

Lionel KESZTENBAUM is senior researcher at Ined. He is head of the research unit History and Population. His research interest lies in differential mortality according to wealth, population ageing, intergenerational wealth and income mobility, on the 19th and 20th century. Lionel has coordinated the TRA survey.

Loïa LAMARQUE is a PhD student at Ined and the University of Montpellier, under the supervision of Marion Leturcq and Alexandra Alvergne. She focuses on the effect of women’s ownership of assets on various indicators of well-being, including women’s and children’s health, as well as transfers to children.

Quentin LIPPMAN is an economist. He is an assistant professor (maître de conférences HDR) at University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. His research interests include public economics, political economy and family economics. He worked extensively on gender issues.

Chloé PARISET is an administrator at Insee and is hosted at Ined for a research stay. She specialized during her early professional experiences in public statistics on issues related to social protection in a broad sense, including the socio-fiscal system, pension system, and unemployment insurance. Currently, she is conducting research on wealth inequalities between women and men, as well as on marriage as a site for wealth formation and economic disparities.

Simon RABATÉ is an economist. He is a tenured researcher at Ined, and is also affiliated to the Centraal Planbureau (CPB) and the Institut des politiques publiques (IPP). His primary research interests are in the fields of public finance and pension systems.

Yanis RAHMOUNI is a research engineer at Ined. He holds a Master’s degree in economics from the Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and has taken part in several survey data processing and harmonization projects.

Benoît RAPOPORT is associate professor (maître de conférences) in economics and research fellow at Ined. His work focuses on wealth and retirement, labor force supply and redistribution within couples.

Mathis SANSU is a PhD candidate both at Ined and LEMMA (Panthéon-Assas University), under the supervision of Nicolas FRÉMEAUX and Marion LETURCQ. His thesis focuses on donations, and explores their economic, social and demographic determinants.

Anne SOLAZ is senior researcher at Ined. She is an economist working on the determinants and consequences of divorce and separations, on gender differences on the labor market and division of chores within the household, inequalities between children and family policies.

Lionel WILNER works at Insee and is an affiliate researcher at Crest. He is also research fellow at Ined. He has worked on various topics in applied microeconomics (health, labor and public economics), with a special focus on the impact of family events on gender differences in careers.