Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...