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GUILLAUME BLANC
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, where I co-founded and serve as the deputy director of The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development.
My research explores the role of cultural factors in the transition from stagnation to growth, as well as the institutional origins of the adoption of a common language and formation of a national identity in diverse societies. My work has been featured in media outlets such as The Guardian, The Atlantic, Vox.com, Le Point, El Mundo, Works in Progress, and in blogs such as Marginal Revolution. I am also an Emergent Ventures grant winner. Working papers The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France R&R, Economic Journal [PDF] [Online appendix] [Summary] [AI generated podcast] [Twitter/X] [Vox.com] [The Guardian] [Le Point] [El Mundo] [Marginal Revolution] [Big Think] [The Atlantic] [new!] French (with Masahiro Kubo) R&R, American Economic Review [PDF] [Online appendix] [Summary] [AI generated podcast] Demographic Transitions, Rural Flight, and Intergenerational Persistence: Evidence From Crowdsourced Genealogies [PDF] [Online appendix] Selected work in progress Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg) Publications Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure, 1730-1895 (with Romain Wacziarg), Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 78, October 2020 [Awarded Larry Neal Prize] [UCLA Anderson Review] Book chapters State-sponsored education and French identity (with Masahiro Kubo), in Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures (eds. Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), CEPR Press, London, February 2023 France’s baby bust, Spotlight Article in Works in Progress, Issue 10, Stripe Press, February 2023 
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