A geographic information system (GIS) of 141 customary regions in Ancien Régime France. In each region, a different custom regulated the legal status of individuals, marriage, parental authority, inheritance, economic transactions, or punishments for crimes, from (at least) the mid-15C until the introduction of the civil code in the 19C.
[with Victor Gay and Paula E. Gobbi]
A geographic information system (GIS) of judicial districts (bailliages) in France. Bailliages were at the center of the Ancien Regime's jurisdictional apparatus: they administered the ordinary royal justice, delineated the jurisdiction of customary laws, and served as electoral constituencies for the Estates General of 1614 and 1789.
[with Victor Gay and Paula E. Gobbi]
Contains three main novel datasets: a) landholdings of Peerage families listed in Bateman's Great Landowners (1883), with unique identifiers enabling links to the Hollingsworth's genealogical data on the Peerage; b) a GIS of family seats of Peerage families from Burke's Heraldic Dictionary (1826); and c) attendance to royal parties during the London Season (1851–1875) from circa 5,000 invitations per year in the National Archives. Also includes the files for replication of the original paper.
Contains two main novel datasets based on the reports of the Committee of Council on Education: a) A GIS of 1,387 School Boards and the local tax rates for education set in 1873-78 b) a panel of 32 counties under for the academic years 1870-71 to 1898-99, with measures of education provision by School Boards and Board- and Voluntary-education. Also includes the files for replication of the original paper.
Includes the files for replication of the original paper and data on 1,837 father-son pairs of scholars in universities and scientific academies in Europe from 1088 to 1800. See David de la Croix's webpage (here) for the full data on Upper Tail Human Capital and the Rise of the West (ERC grant 883033)
[with David de la Croix]
Includes the files for replication of the original paper and municipality-level decennial data on farm machinery from the Agricultural Census in Norway.
[with Philipp Ager and Kjell G. Salvanes]
Includes the files for replication of the original paper. For the nobel datasers on judicial districts and customs, see the data resources "Customs in Ancien Régime France" and "Bailliages in Ancien Régime France" listed above.
[with Victor Gay and Paula E. Gobbi]
Includes the files for replication of the original paper.
[with Paula E. Gobbi]