During the First World War in France, annual government spending reached unprecedented levels, accounting for 50 percent of GDP. A significant portion of these expenditures was allocated to support industrial warfare, at a time when the country’s …
This study analyzes the effect of urbanization on political representation in Parliament. To identify local-level variation in urbanization rates, it leverages exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the French …
In 1925, of the 22 countries that could be classified as democracies, only four —France, Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland— had yet to extend suffrage to women. France is an intriguing exception: as a co-belligerent in WWI, the country experienced …
This article describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la France database.
The interwar inflow of women in the labor force due to WWI persisted until today through intergenerational transmission mechanisms.
Database on the 1.3 million French fatalities of World War I
The scarcity of men due to the war generated an upward shift in female labor force participation that persisted throughout the interwar period.
Describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS.
The Third-Republic France Geographic Information System (1870–1940)