Lucas Sage

Lucas Sage is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse/Toulouse School of Economics. As a computational sociologist, his research examines social inequality from multiple angles: investigating the micro-level mechanisms that generate wage disparities and cumulative advantage in labor markets, and exploring how inequality’s affects cooperation in addressing climate change. His work extends to broader questions about the predictability of life trajectories. His research integrates diverse computational and quantitative methods—including agent-based modeling, social network analysis, machine learning applications with large-scale registry data, multilevel statistical modeling, and laboratory experiments—to address fundamental questions about social stratification and collective action. He is committed to advancing methodological innovation in computational social science, recently organizing a symposium on empirically calibrated agent-based models and teaching computational social science at multiple institutions. His research has appeared notably in PNAS, PLOS ONE.