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economic growth, demography, economics of war, education, inequalitySelected Work
“Technology Adoption, Mortality, and Population Dynamics”
with John Hejkal and B. Ravikumar
Forthcoming in Economic Journal
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“On the Economic Mechanics of Warfare”
Forthcoming in International Economic Review
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“The Mechanics of Individually- and Socially-Optimal Decisions during an Epidemic”
Forthcoming in B E Journal of Macroeconomics
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“Comparative Advantage and Moonlighting”
with Stéphane Auray and David L. Fuller
European Economic Review, October 2021, Vol. 139, 103897
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“The Baby Boomer and the Productivity Slowdown”
European Economic Review, February 2021, Vol. 132, 103609
“Fertility Shocks and Equilibrium Marriage-Rate Dynamics”
with John Knowles
International Economic Review, November 2019, Vol. 4, No. 60, pp. 1505-1537
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“Explaining Cross-Cohort Differences in Life-Cycle Earnings”
with Y.-C. Kong and B. Ravikumar
European Economic Review, August 2018, Vol. 107, pp. 157-184
“Family Economics Writ Large”
with Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 1346-1434
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“Explaining Educational Attainment Across Countries And Over Time”
with Diego Restuccia
Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 824-841
“Fertility and Wars: The Case of World War I in France”
American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, April 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 108-136
“The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis”
with Diego Restuccia
International Economic Review, August 2013, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 915-936
“The U.S. Westward Expansion”
International Economic Review, February 2008, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 81-110
“The Baby Boom and Baby Bust”
with Jeremy Greenwood and Ananth Seshadri
American Economic Review, March 2005, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 183-207
“Explaining the Fed's recent conventional and unconventional monetary policy”
FRED Blog, August 28, 2023
“From Ye Olde Stagnation to Modern Growth in England”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 3
“The Return on Investing in a College Education”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, First Quarter 2023
“Mortality Reductions: Fast for Poorer Nations, Slow for Richer Nations”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, Second Quarter 2022
“Mortality and Economic Growth”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2022, No. 30
“The COVID-19 New Business Boom”
with Victoria Yin
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2022, No. 6
“Comparing Russia and the European Union: GDP and population”
FRED Blog, March 7, 2022
“The Association Between Poverty and Mortality”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2021, No. 26
“Personal Saving During the COVID-19 Recession”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2021, No. 2
“Population growth and economic growth”
FRED Blog, December 9, 2021
“Geographic Dispersion in COVID-19 Death Rates across the United States”
with B. Ravikumar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2020, No. 36
“Worker Diversity and Wage Growth Since 1940”
with Makenzie Peake
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter 2020
“On the Transition to Modern Growth: Lessons from Recent Agricultural Employment” (PDF)
with B. Ravikumar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2023-026C, May 2024
“On the Economic Mechanics of Warfare” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2023-007E, July 2024
“Lifetime Work Hours and the Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap” (PDF)
with Oksana Leukhina
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2022-025B, September 2023
“Technology Adoption, Mortality, and Population Dynamics” (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2020.039
with John Hejkal and B. Ravikumar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2020-039J, August 2024
“The Baby Boomers and the Productivity Slowdown” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2018-037A, December 2018
“Explaining Educational Attainment Across Countries and over Time” (PDF)
with Diego Restuccia
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2014-048A, November 2014
Guillaume Vandenbroucke is a senior economic policy advisor in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in July 2014. His research covers topics such as economic growth and demography, including the link between (i) the economy and (ii) fertility and mortality; the economics of wars, particularly World War II; and education and inequality. He completed his undergraduate education in economics in France, later studying at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and at the University of Rochester, New York, where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics in 2004.
Vandenbroucke has published papers in American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, European Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and International Economic Review. Since 2013, he has been associate editor of Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Prior to joining the St. Louis Fed, he was an economics professor at the University of Southern California, University of Iowa, and University of Pennsylvania.
