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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25490 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25490 |
Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895 | |
Guillaume Blanc; Romain Wacziarg | |
发表日期 | 2019-01-28 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the process of modernization during a period of rapid institutional and demographic transformation. We document changes in fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French Revolution and paying close attention to the sequencing of changes associated with various aspects of modernization in the village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly associated with institutional and cultural change rather than with changes in the opportunity cost of children. The rise in education occurred mostly as the result of an increase in the supply of schooling due to the Guizot Law, rather than demand side forces. All these changes occurred in the absence of industrialization in and around the village. We conclude that institutional and cultural changes originating outside the village were likely the dominant forces explaining its modernization. |
主题 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies ; Other ; Culture |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25490 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583164 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Guillaume Blanc,Romain Wacziarg. Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895. 2019. |
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