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GUILLAUME BLANC
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, where I co-founded and currently serve as 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 and the institutional origins of the adoption of a common language and formation of a national identity in diverse societies. It has been featured in media outlets such as The Guardian, Vox.com, Le Point, or El Mundo, and in blogs such as Marginal Revolution.
Working papers The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France pdf online appendix summary French (with Masahiro Kubo) pdf online appendix summary 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 Larry Neal Prize for best article published in EXEH 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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