During World War I, annual government spending in France reached unprecedented levels, accounting for 50 percent of prewar GDP. A significant portion of this spending was allocated to support war industries at a time when the country’s industrial …
Combining district-level measures of World War I military fatalities with full-count census microdata, we show that wartime mortality increased postwar female labor force participation in England and Wales. Women shifted away from traditionally …
We study how World War I's demographic shock reshaped women's work in rural France. Linking women across the 1911 and 1921 censuses in the département of Haute-Vienne and exploiting commune-level variation in military fatalities, we estimate how male …
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.
Dissertation defended at the Departement of Economics of the University of Chicago in Spring 2018.