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Guillaume Blanc
@gguillaumeblanc
Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Manchester & Dep. Director, @ArthurLewisLab 📚 growth & development, economic history, political economy
Nov 29, 2021 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
Why did the demographic transition, essential condition for development, took hold in 🇫🇷 more than 100 years earlier than in any other country?

My #JMP uses crowdsourced genealogies to comprehensively document the decline in fertility & identify its origins for the first time 🧵 Why does it matter? Without an escape from the Malthusian trap, no sustained growth is possible

👇👇 The hockey stick graph! 🏒🏒