This article presents a microeconometric analysis of household car use in France. To characterize car use dependence, the myopic and rational addiction models are estimated using panel data drawn from the French “Car Fleet” survey. Significantly, the assumption of rational addiction to car...

[fre] En France, la croissance de la motorisation individuelle continue de ralentir et la circulation des voitures particulières plafonne depuis les années 2000, surtout dans les zones les plus urbanisées. Comment ces phénomènes s'inscrivent-ils dans le mouvement de long terme de diffusion...

From 1980 to 1995, France was the first European country in which diesel cars became more popular than petrol cars. In addition to offering improved performance, this preference was notably due to a much cheaper cost of use, in line with the taxation on both fuel types. But the advantage of...

Before 1997, compulsory military service was a way for many young French men to obtain their driving licence for free. After the abolition of compulsory conscription in 1997, this sex-based discrimination disappeared. We use this shock in its two dimensions. First, it was a supply shock, since...

Econometricians have from the start considered historical knowledge of their own discipline as reflexive knowledge useful for delineating their discipline, that is, for setting its disciplinary boundaries with respect to its aims, its methods, and its scientific values. As such, the histories...