Research projects : European projects

Dates: 01/01/2025 – 31/12/2027

Gender gaps in recruiting, promotion, budget-shares, representation at the top of the hierarchy of European Research and Innovation Organisations (RIOs) have significantly declined, and yet remain sizable/wide overall. Gender inequalities are especially pronounced for people who identify themselves as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-Binary, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) and people at the intersection of gender and other minority-group threads (e.g., disabled women, foreign women, older women; a phenomenon defined as “intersectionality” by Crenshaw). According to various sources, intersectional gender groups are among the least integrated in R & I (e.g., American Economic Association and European Economic Association surveys). Lacking diversity and inclusion for all gender groups is not only harmful to gender equality but also to RIOs attractivity, performance and productivity. Through the lens of a fully transdisciplinary approach -embracing quantitative gender economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, innovation research and gender studies-
GEPINC aims to provide an effective framework to durably foster gender equality for all in European RIOs. GEPINC proposes to develop and finely tailor new effective cutting-edge training tools and new research targeted at fostering the integration of LGBTIQ and intersectional gender groups in European RIOs. GEPINC proposed activities are engines of change, which will durably promote gender diversity and inclusion in European RIOs and generate impact with long-lasting changes in research and RIOs performance and attractivity.

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Coordinator: INRAE

Dates: 01/09/2023 – 31/08/2028

Which social groups have most benefited from financial globalization since the 1980s? How would inequality have evolved if, instead of tax competition, countries had chosen tax harmonization? The goal of this project is to address these questions in a unified framework and using new data, through the creation of new statistics of the ownership of global assets by country of the owner and wealth group. The ultimate objective is to renew thinking about the future of international economic coordination.

Coordinator: Universitat de Barcelona

Dates: 01/02/2023 – 31/01/2027

SUSTAINWELL aims to contribute to a resilient Europe and sustainable social protection systems by analyzing the socio-economic impact of an aging population. The project plans to:

• Examine key decisions made throughout the life cycle that affect individuals’ socio-economic status and well-being (education, fertility, labor effort, domestic production, savings, and retirement)
• Determine the impact of public and family transfers on decision-making and well-being throughout the life cycle
• Analyze the interaction between welfare state policies and market and non-market activities occurring within families and the private sector.

A holistic approach to aging societies will be adopted to provide new scientific insights into the emerging challenges and opportunities in the silver economy. Combined with co-creation techniques, this approach will produce outcomes that influence policymaking on labor markets

Coordinator: Leiden University

Dates: 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2026

The WISE project seeks to facilitate and accelerate a systemic change in society by creating a framework based on the current beyond GDP narratives, policies, and initiatives. It will create a synthesis of WISE indicators – presented in a special database – and WISE models to transform modeling and policymaking. WISE Horizons aims to inform and accelerate the transition to a new economic paradigm with wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability at its core. The project will create a state-of-the-art theoretical framework which synthesizes the current beyond GDP initiatives through a novel and open access WISE accounting framework.

Coordinator: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Dates: 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2025

HI-PRIX is a 3 years EU-funded project aiming at expediting access to high-quality, affordable health innovation by developing new pricing and payment models that address challenges posed by high-priced health technologies. The project has three key objectives:

• Formulate adaptable pricing and payment strategies suitable across technology types and healthcare systems;
• Assess the effects of contracting methods for health innovations on competitiveness, innovation, equity, and affordability, from the regulatory approval to value assessment and adoption;
• Encourage open dialogue among payers, manufacturers, healthcare professionals, and patients to address concerns about pricing models and balance affordability, innovation, and access.

Hospinnomics at PSE is in charge of WP8 which reviews existing strategies to mitigate equity issues in existing payment schemes and considers ways to include equity considerations into new payment systems, in order to address the efficiency-equity trade-offs upfront, rather than as equity mitigation strategies.

Coordinator: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Dates: 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2025

Dates: 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) characterizes how we adaptively learn, by trial and errors, to repeat actions that maximize the occurrence of rewards, and minimize the occurrence of punishments. Traditionally, the decision outcomes in RL are conceived as instrumental reinforcers, whose consumption mechanically increases the probability of repeating decisions and actions that lead to them. This low-level reinforcing process typically overshadows the fact that outcomes also carry information ‒even when they are not consumed‒, which can be used to build representations of decision variables that can guide future behavior. Using a combination of behavioral, computational and neurobiological experiments in human participants, this project will investigate how bounded computational capacities and affective biases impose cost-benefit tradeoffs in information integration, fueling and explaining apparent behavioral anomalies.

Coordinator: Inserm

Dates: 01/03/2021 – 28/02/2026

CBIG-SCREEN is a 5 years H2020 EU-funded multi-country/multi-disciplinary project aimed at reducing use inequalities of cervical cancer screening in Europe by tailoring programs to the needs of underserved/hard-to-reach vulnerable women. Hospinnomics at PSE is in charge of informing the design of context-specific targeted interventions by deepening our understanding of the preferences of this subpopulation and by exploring the societal issues raised by targeted interventions. To do so, a Discrete Choice Experiment has been designed and distributed in 4 intervention countries: France, Estonia, Romania and Portugal in order to elicit the preferences of vulnerable women for different interventions, in particular self-sampling, in comparison to the general population.

Dates: 18/12/2020 – 15/06/2025

The goal of this project is to develop the EU Tax Observatory, an independent, non-partisan, objective laboratory focused on the study of taxation. The Observatory performs cutting-edge research on tax avoidance, tax evasion, and aggressive tax planning, at the highest scientific international level; promotes an inclusive, democratic, pluralistic debate on taxation policies across the world; and aims to inform policymakers with the most current research findings and propose concrete policy reforms to foster fairer taxation.

Coordinator: Inserm

Dates: 01/07/2020 – 30/06/2027

In all European countries, social health inequalities remain significant. Numerous studies have identified a range of social determinants of health. However, gender, as a social power relation between women and men, is rarely considered a key determinant of health inequalities. The objective of the GENDHI project is to understand how gender intersects with other social relations, such as class and “race,” to shape social health inequalities throughout life courses. GENDHI takes a resolutely multidisciplinary approach, combining sociology, demography, economics, and epidemiology, in close collaboration with clinician-researchers.

Dates: 01/03/2020 – 28/02/2026

This project aims at implementing a renovated approach to the measurement of income and wealth inequality consistent with macro aggregates, i.e macroeconomic national accounts. It should help the researchers to rebuild the bridges between distributional data available from micro sources and national accounts aggregates in a systematic way.

DINA (Distributional National Accounts) also involves the production of synthetic micro-files, providing information on income and wealth. Those micro-files focus on individual level data that are not necessarily the result of direct observation but come from estimations that reproduce the observed distribution of the underlying data, including the joint distribution of age, gender, numbers of dependent children, income and wealth between adult individuals.

The global aim is to release income and wealth synthetic DINA micro-files for all countries on an annual basis. Such data play a critical role in the public debate, and can be used as a resource for further analysis by various actors in civil society and in the academic, business and political communities.

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