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GUILLAUME BLANC
Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester
Deputy Director of The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester. I obtained my PhD in Economics from Brown University under the supervision of Oded Galor, Romain Wacziarg, Stelios Michalopoulos, and David Weil. My research interests span the fields of economic history, economic growth and development, political economy, and cultural economics.
Working papers Crowdsourced Genealogies (May 2023) [PDF] [online appendix] [twitter thread] Presentations Brown, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Oxford, PAA, TSE, Zurich, NBER SI, WEHC, Manchester, SDU Distinguished Lecture Migration and Family Workshop in Paris The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France (December 2022) [PDF] [online appendix] [twitter thread] Presentations Brown, Chapman, Clark, UC Louvain, PSE, College de France, Northwestern, PAA, ASREC, LMU, EHA, UC Davis, Chicago, Manchester, RES, Pompeu Fabra, LSE Keynote Lecture European Parliament in Madrid Awarded Abramson Prize for best third year paper in the Department of Economics at Brown Coverage Vox.com, Marginal Revolution, The Guardian, Le Point, El Mundo, Uncharted Territories French with Masahiro Kubo (December 2021) [PDF] [online appendix] [twitter thread] Presentations Brown, ENS, UCLA, PSE, Stellenbosch, Cultural Evolution Society, ASREC, NEUDC, European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Job Market Session North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Aix-Marseille, EIEF, CREI, UC3M, NES, RES, SIOE, Manchester, Humboldt, Copenhagen, King's College London Publications Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure, 1730-1895 with Romain Wacziarg (October 2020) [PDF] Explorations in Economic History, Vol 78, 10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101352 Awarded Larry Neal Prize for best article published in Explorations in Economic History Coverage Anderson Review Book chapters State-sponsored education and French identity, with Masahiro Kubo (February 2023) [PDF] in Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures, edited by Dominic Rohner Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, CEPR Press, London France’s baby bust (February 2023) [PDF] Spotlight Article in Works in Progress, Issue 10, Stripe Press 
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