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'histoire sociale et environnementale de la qualité des rivières en France au vingtième siècle pour montrer que le cadre théorique …
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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 …
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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...
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This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world … Mincerian returns to schooling and average schooling contrary to other functional forms. As a result, we show that world human … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …
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services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial inequalities within France and to test the empirical relevance of …
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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 world-wide economic flows. This supremacy derived from the … Mediterranean maritime world is how borders dematerialized, how flows started to define space and how different stages or levels of …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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