

Joseph Enguehard
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@EnguehardJoseph
PhD Candidate in economics @ENSdeLyon Research fellow @Unibo JMC 2025-26, Political Economy and Growth



In a new paper with @EvaDavoine @EnguehardJoseph & I. Kolesnikov, we build a historical GIS of a core fiscal institution in early modern France: the gabelle (salt tax), which generated up to 25% of tax revenue. 👉 hal.science/hal-05501504 🧵1/7








I am glad to share a new working paper with @gobbi_paula and Marc Goñi! Can inheritance reforms enacted during the French Revolution explain the puzzle of the early French fertility decline, as hypothesized by Le Play in 1875? (1/5) Ungated version 👉hal.science/hal-04285818


BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” #NobelPrize






Our recent WP explores the political consequences of enforcing the salt tax in early modern #France 🇫🇷 The authors examine how stricter enforcement of this tax, which varied across regions, led to conflicts between taxpayers and the state. Read here: taxobservatory.eu/publication/th…