Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d’Anxure, 1730–1895 |
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| Institution: | 1. Brown University, Department of Economics, Robinson Hall, 64 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA;2. UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA;3. NBER, USA;1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, United Kingdom;2. Národohospodářská fakulta, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, náměstí Winstona Churchilla 4, Prague 3 130 67, Czech Republic;3. UCL Center for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, United Kingdom;4. d-Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, and Charles University, Faculty of Law;1. Yale University, United States;2. University of Oxford, United Kingdom;1. University of Pittsburgh and NBER, USA;2. Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013, USA;3. University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village, we study the process of modernization during a period of rapid institutional and demographic transformation. We document changes in fertility, mortality, literacy and intergenerational social mobility. The fall in fertility followed the French Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, and preceded the rise in education by several decades. Rising literacy followed an increase in the supply of schooling due to the Guizot Law. All these changes occurred in the absence of industrialization in and around the village. We conclude that institutional and cultural changes originating outside the village were likely the dominant forces accounting for its modernization. |
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