and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 17,653 firms over the period 1986-2001 in France, 8,728 firms over the …

framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …

Industrialization experiences differ significantly across countries. We use a bench-mark model of structural change to … countries can generate variation in industrialization experiences similar to those found in the data, including premature …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …

the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the …