Research Fields
Economics
Explore economics topics studied at CREST.
Finance and Actuarial Science
Learn about finance and insurance studies at CREST.
Sociology
Discover sociology research at CREST.
Statistics
Explore statistics studies at CREST.
Activities
News
Get the latest updates and insights from CREST.
Doctoral Courses
Advance your academic journey with our doctoral courses at CREST.
Working Papers
Discover our research findings in our working papers.
From Our Researchers
Explore discussion papers from our researchers.
Agenda
Publications
sociology
From Bow to Brain: Reducing Educational Inequalities through Music Education? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment on a Violin Program for Young, Disadvantaged Children
This study evaluates the effects of intensive music education on disadvantaged children in the northern suburbs of Paris, using a quasi-experimental design with entropy balancing. We focus on a four-y ...
Sociology of Education, 2026
finance
How to close the protection gap and increase resilience against climate change
This discussion paper examines Europe’s widening natural catastrophe protection gap – estimated at 50–75% of economic losses remaining uninsured – and sets out how it can be addressed through ...
AAE Sustainability and Climate Related Risks Working Group, 2026
statistics
Optimal Estimation of Discrete Multiview Distributions under Heteroskedastic Multinomial Sampling
Multiview latent-variable models provide a fundamental framework for discrete data analysis, with applications to latent structure models, topic models, and mixtures of product distributions. In the d ...
Preprint, 2026
economics
Wealth Heterogeneity and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Wealth
We provide detailed estimates of how the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth (MPC) varies along the distribution of household wealth and by asset composition, and analyse the sources of MPC h ...
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2026













