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GUILLAUME BLANC
I am currently 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 and demographic 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, or Works in Progress, and in blogs such as Marginal Revolution. I am also an Emergent Ventures grant winner. This summer, I will join Simon Fraser University as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Working papers Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg) [PDF] [Online appendix] [NBER WP #33542] [AI generated podcast] [Marginal Revolution] [UCLA Anderson Review] [Works in Progress] 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] [Works in Progress] French (with Masahiro Kubo) R&R, American Economic Review [PDF] [Online appendix] [Summary] [AI generated podcast] Selected work in progress Genealogies (with Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Nicola Barban, Thomas Baudin, Matthew Curtis, Joseph Enguehard, Paula Gobbi, Simone Moriconi, Robert Stelter) – Extends Demographic Transitions, Rural Flight, and Intergenerational Persistence (resting paper) Publications Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization (with Romain Wacziarg), Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 78, October 2020 [Awarded Larry Neal Prize] 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 |
