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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850
Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009
convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This … transition-era France, 1750-1850. The results show that it was the richest groups who reduced their family size first and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738834
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The century of education
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930177
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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007
This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930213
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The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - HAL - 2008
services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial inequalities within France and to test the empirical relevance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930232
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Asian Mediterranean
Gipouloux, François - HAL - 2009
Mediterranean is a powerful concept, elaborated by Braudel in his seminal study on The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. It encompasses economic, social and cultural dimensions. In the fourteenth century, Genoa, Venice, Barcelona were global places, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422038
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Caminos de papel: las controversias monetarias en la Independencia del Perú
Romero, Dionisio De Haro - HAL - 2013
El objeto de la presente ponencia es profundizar en el análisis de la iniciativa monetaria más relevante que el gobierno de San Martín desarrolla durante la guerra de Independencia, El Banco Auxiliar de Papel Moneda. El estudio centra la investigación en el análisis comparativo entre el...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899212
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In Search of the Banking Regulator amid U.S. Financial Reforms of the 1930s
Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique - HAL - 2014
Some bank reforms of the 1930s in the United States may have been overvalued. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 actually created new endogenous risks involving potential systemic effects. Deposit insurance failed to address the main cause of banking panics, and rather strengthened inefficient unit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899511
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The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - HAL - 2007
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738944
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The French Monetary Management in the Inter-war Period: the Dismissal of Open Market Procedure?
Barbaroux, Nicolas - HAL - 2006
behaviour adopted by Bank of France. Three points emerge from the study. (1) Before explaining the way franc was managed, we …. (2) The monetary management implemented by the Bank of France is both characterized by a discount rate policy and by the … the French monetary policymaking the paper will expose the peculiar policy implemented by Bank of France between 1928 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794111
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THE RISE AND FALL OF SPATIAL INEQUALITIES IN FRANCE: A LONG-RUN PERSPECTIVE
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - HAL - 2008
services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial inequalities within France and to test the empirical relevance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794764