Morts pour la France: Demographic or Economic Factors? |
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Authors: | Jean-Pascal Guironnet Antoine Parent |
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Institution: | 1. Economic Department, Normandy University, Caen, France;2. IEP de Lyon, LAET UMR CNRS and Complex Systems Institute, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France |
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Abstract: | This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the database ‘Mémoire des hommes’, which is a record of more than 1 million French soldiers officially recognized as dead during the World War I (WWI). Integrating this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by French regional department. From this, a model identifies the factors affecting the number of deaths. While demographic factors are the principal determinants, adding significant economic, political and spatial factors reduces the unexplained variance between regions and significantly improves the explanation of the disparity in the number of deaths by region. |
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Keywords: | World War I demography count models spatial economics cliometrics |
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