This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines which were supervised by the Ministry of Public Works,...

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines which were supervised by the Ministry of Public Works,...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 -- 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 -- 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786...