Joseph Enguehard
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A Demographic Picture of Preindustrial France
Old essay
Joseph Enguehard
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Early Modern Tax Technology: Local Evidence from the French Gabelle
PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE VERSION: A Historical Geographic Information System of the Grandes Gabelles in Early Modern France. Abstract This note presents the development of a parish-level historical geographic information system (GIS) for the seventeenth-century French salt tax system of the gabelles based using an original manuscript map collection from 1665: Sanson’s Atlas des gabelles.
Eva Davoine
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Joseph Enguehard
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Victor Gay
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Igor Kolesnikov
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Endemic Violence, Civic Capital and the Fiscal-Military Revolution
On the one hand, a high level of military skill among the population is necessary to wage war; on the other hand, an armed and trained population has stronger bargaining power and is less willing to submit to the taxation demanded by the central government. This project establishes theoretical foundations for the trade-off faced by early modern states, and study its implications for the long-run state development process.
Joseph Enguehard
Malthus in the Raj
This paper studies the Malthusian constraint on local living standards in colonial South Asia, based on a novel district-level dataset of subsistence ratios.
Joseph Enguehard
The Measure of Disorder: Population, State-Building and Rebellion in Old Regime France, 1661-1789
Master’s thesis
Joseph Enguehard
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The Political Costs of Taxation
CESifo Working Paper. EUtax Working Paper. Paper selected for the NBER SI Political Economy 2025 Paper nominated for the CESifo Award in Public Economics 2025 Abstract. We examine the political costs of taxation in early modern France.
Eva Davoine
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Joseph Enguehard
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Igor Kolesnikov
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The Race between Lewis and Malthus
Is a delayed fertility transition a barrier to structural change? This paper explores a mechanism based on differential demographic behavior between sectors.
Joseph Enguehard
Last updated on Dec 10, 2024
The Transmission of institutions
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Nicola Barban
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Guillaume Blanc
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Joseph Enguehard
The ABC Tax (in French)
Dormant policy-related project about a smooth tax function (in French).
Enguehard, J., Giraud, G., Levieil, E., Salin, M.
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