[fre] Pratiques successorales et fécondité : l'effet du Code civil, . par Paul-André Rosental.. . Le Code civil a souvent été accusé d'avoir été l'une des causes majeures de la baisse de la fécondité en France au XIXe siècle. Substituant l'équirépartition forcée à la liberté de...

When INED and Population were first founded, soon after the Second World War, French public research was still very young, and its objectives were dictated by the priorities of public policy. Demography had not yet become the science of populations. Among the team of researchers brought together...

Rosental (Paul-André). - Thirteen Years of Thinking : From Population History to Historical Demography (France 1945-1958) Historical demography did not appear from out of nowhere. Before its success in 1958, Louis Henry was already working in a promising field, in which several model coexisted...

Les maladies professionnelles ne semblent responsables que d'une fraction minime des décès survenant chaque année en France : moins d'un millième. Mais il est admis que les statistiques sont fortement sous-évaluées dans ce domaine. La silicose, par exemple, maladie professionnelle la plus...

At first glance, only a tiny proportion of deaths occurring in France each year - fewer than one in a thousand - can be attributed to occupational diseases. It is acknowledged, however, that the statistics do not reflect reality. For example, in the coal mining industry alone, an estimated...

Why did Louis Henry create a scientific discipline?historical demography?that dominated population history from the 1950s to the 1980s, and even influenced the École des Annales? Beyond historiography and the history of demographic theories, the answer lies in the history of government, public...