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View article: State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution
State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution Open
Early modern European powers were beset by episodic unrest as they sought to consolidate their authority and build empires. We examine how growing state communication networks and the penetration of society impacted unrest by combining ori…
View article: The Jean Nicolas Database. The French Rebellion, 1661-1789
The Jean Nicolas Database. The French Rebellion, 1661-1789 Open
This article introduces the Jean Nicolas database, a comprehensive resource documenting 8,516 rebellions in France between 1661 and 1789. Based on a survey conducted by Jean Nicolas from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, the database reco…
View article: Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline
Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline Open
We test Le Play’s (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France’s early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local inheritance practices, imposing equal partition of assets among all ch…
View article: POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926-36)
POPP. An OCR-Generated Database of the Population Censuses of Paris (1926-36) Open
Empirical research in historical demography is typically time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recent advances in machine learning open new opportunities for constructing large-scale databases much faster and at lower cost, but they also rai…
View article: The Jean Nicolas Database
The Jean Nicolas Database Open
This dataverse contains the Jean Nicolas database, a comprehensive resource documenting 8,516 rebellions in France between 1661 and 1789. The database records each event's typology, chronology, location, participant characteristics, forms …
View article: The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France
The Mosque Nearby: Visible Minorities and Far-Right Support in France Open
How is support for right-wing populist parties affected by exposure to Muslim visibility? Using an original database on French mosques, this article analyzes the relationship between the presence of mosques and support for the Front Nation…
View article: Women's Suffrage: Explaining the French Exception
Women's Suffrage: Explaining the French Exception Open
Despite its early experiment with manhood suffrage, France was among the last countries in Europe to extend voting rights to women. Existing accounts of this French exceptionalism point to the key role of a group of legislators, the Radica…
View article: Collateral Damage? How World War One Changed the Way Women Work
Collateral Damage? How World War One Changed the Way Women Work Open
Drawing on individual-level data from the 1911 and 1921 population censuses and census-linking techniques, we analyze the consequences of World War I in France on female labor force participation. Our results suggest that in municipalities…
View article: Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France
Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France Open
This study argues that urbanization altered the relationship between candidates’ occupation and their electoral success. To identify the causal effect of local variation in urbanization, we exploit exogenous changes in the boundaries of el…
View article: The Road to Rebellion: Rural Uprisings and State-Building in the Run-Up to the French Revolution
The Road to Rebellion: Rural Uprisings and State-Building in the Run-Up to the French Revolution Open
Early modern European powers were beset by episodic unrest as they sought to consolidate authority and build empires. We examine how growing state communication networks and increased state presence impacted rural unrest by combining origi…
View article: The Morts Pour la France Database
The Morts Pour la France Database Open
This dataverse contains the Morts Pour la France (MPF) database, a database of all 1.3 million French fatalities of the Great War with a host of individual-level information. It also contains data files for département- and municipality-le…
View article: The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour
The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour Open
Demographic shocks tied to World War I’s high death toll induced many women to enter the labour force in the immediate post-war period. I document a positive impact of these newly employed women on the labour force participation of subsequ…
View article: Replication package for: "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour"
Replication package for: "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour" Open
Replication package for: Gay, Victor. 2023. "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor." The Economic Journal.
View article: Replication package for: "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour"
Replication package for: "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labour" Open
Replication package for: Gay, Victor. 2023. "The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor." The Economic Journal.
View article: Distance to innovations, kinship intensity, and psychological traits
Distance to innovations, kinship intensity, and psychological traits Open
Psychological traits display substantial variation worldwide. These psychological variations could be explained by the intensity of kinship ties which, we hypothesize, depends on the reception of innovations that gradually complexified fam…
View article: Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009)
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009) Open
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View article: Replication Data for: Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits
Replication Data for: Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits Open
This dataset provides the reproduction material for Le Bris and Gay (2023).
View article: TRF-GIS Stata Package
TRF-GIS Stata Package Open
This dataset contains the files used to run the trfgis Stata package, which gives an integrated access to data of the TRF-GIS Dataverse. This is the alpha version of the trfgis Stata package.
View article: Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940)
Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940) Open
This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompas…
View article: TSE M2 PPD Institutions and Long-Run Development (2021)
TSE M2 PPD Institutions and Long-Run Development (2021) Open
Why are some countries so much richer than others today? Why do some countries grow so much faster? What sustains development over the long run? Among all exiting hypotheses, empirical evidence points toward several explanations, and in pa…