Benoît Tarroux

Research interests

applied microeconomics, experimental and behavioral economics, collective choice, public economics, freedom of choice, redistribution.

Published papers

• Empirical research on ethical preferences: how popular is prioritarianism, with Erik Schokkaert, in Prioritarianism in Practice, Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2022.

• How choice proliferation affects revealed preferences, with Fabrice Le Lec and Marianne Lumeau, Theory and Decision, 2022, vol. 93, pp. 331-358.

• On attitude to choice : Some experimental evidence of choice aversion, with Fabrice Le Lec, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, vol. 18(5), pp. 2108-2134.

• On the roots of the intrinsic value of decision rights: Evidence from France and Japan, with João V. Ferreira and Nobuyuki Hanaki, Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, vol. 119, pp. 110-122.

• The value of tax progressivity: Evidence from survey experiments, Journal of Public Economics, 2019, vol. 179;

• Le goût des autres: une étude expérimentale sur la conformité, with Fabrice Le Lec and Marianne Lumeau, Revue Économique, 2017, vol. 68: 773-784.

• Robust normative evaluation of socially risky situations, with Nicolas Gravel, Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, vol. 44: 257-282.

• Comparing Two-Dimensional Distributions: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach, Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, vol. 44: 87-108.

• Are equalization payments making Canadians better off? A two-dimensional dominance answer, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, vol. 10, pp. 19-44.

• Freedom-based measurement of living standard, with Nicolas Gravel, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2011, vol. 101-102, pp. 37-70.

• Robust international comparisons of distributions of disposable income and regional public goods, with Nicolas Gravel and Patrick Moyes, Economica, 2009, vol. 76, pp. 432-461.

• A robust normative evaluation of India’s performance in allocating risks of death, with Nicolas Gravel and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, vol. 1, pp 95-111.

Working papers and on-going projects

• The effect of group-deliberation on distributive preferences, with João V. Ferreira and Erik Schokkaert, Working paper GATE 2301.

• Freedom counts: Cross-country empirical evidence, with João V. Ferreira, Nobuyuki Hanaki, Fabrice Le Lec and Erik Schokkaert, Working paper GATE 2317.

• Social preferences and preference over menus: Evidence from France and Japan, with Yosuke Hashidate, Fabrice Le Lec, Tetsuya Kawamura and Yusuke Osaki, Working paper GATE 2406.

• Preference for diversity in media menus, with Sylvain Dejean, Marianne Lumeau and Stéphanie Peltier.

• Open deliberation and bargaining, with Roberto Brunetti and João V. Ferreira.

• Animal epidemics and livestock trade, with Sacha Kramer, Dominique Pontier, Julie Rosaz and Thibaud Porphyre.

• The intrinsic value of vote, with Joao V. Ferreira and Nobuyuki Hanaki.

Directeur adjoint du GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne