Calendrier du 10 mars 2020
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 10/03/2020 de 17:00 à 18:00
ZUBER Thomas (PSE)
Directing job search: a large scale experiment
Du 10/03/2020 de 14:30 à 16:30
PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21
RAMONDO Natalia (San Diego)
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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 10/03/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BLANC Guillaume (University of Manchester)
Modernization Before Industrialization: Cultural Roots of the Demographic Transition in France
This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in France, before the French Revolution and more than a century before the rest of Europe. We provide strong empirical evidence suggesting
that secularization accounts for the bulk of the decline in fertility and document large, significant, and robust results across specifications, datasets, and estimation methods. We draw on a novel individual-level historical dataset crowdsourced from publicly available genealogies to establish a causal interpretation. This dataset allows to control for time-varying unobservables, to study the effect of secularization before and after demographic change, and to exploit the choice of migrants in the aftermath of the decline in religiosity. Finally, we discuss the roots of the rapid and early process of secularization and suggest that the strength of the Counter Reformation following the demise of Protestantism in France played an important part. Our findings demonstrate that cultural change and the transition to modernity and away from tradition can shape development.