Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/2APQZ6 |
Publication Date
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2023-06-13 |
Title
| The Morts Pour la France Database |
Author
| Gay, VictorToulouse School of EconomicsORCID0000-0001-9912-3841
Grosjean, PaulineUSNWORCID0000-0002-3623-8083 |
Point of Contact
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Gay, Victor (Toulouse School of Economics and IAST) |
Description
| This dataverse contains the Morts Pour la France (MPF) database, a database of all 1.3 million French fatalities of the Great War with a host of individual-level information. It also contains data files for département- and municipality-level military death rates. (2023-08) |
Subject
| Social Sciences |
Keyword
| World War I
Military fatalities
France |
Related Publication
| Victor Gay and Pauline Grosjean. 2023. "Morts pour la France. A Database of French Fatalities of the Great War." Explorations in Economic History, 90, 101550. doi 10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101550 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101550 |
Notes
| The data are based on MPF records disseminated on the Mémoire des Hommes web platform (https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/) |
Language
| English; French |
Funding Information
| ANR: ANR-17-EURE-0010 |
Depositor
| Gay, Victor |
Deposit Date
| 2023-08-29 |
Data Type
| Stata data format (dta); text fomat (txt); shapefiles |
Software
| STATA SE, Version: 16 |
Related Dataset
| Gay, Victor, 2020, "TRF-GIS Départements (1870–1940)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ULQYM5, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:1tK0SNF/sKIgUoWzr//Pyw== [fileUNF]; TRF-GIS Communes (1870–1940) Gay, Victor, 2020, "TRF-GIS Communes (1870–1940)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LZTZWE, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:BDJwhwivJxhQeIGSj2c6qQ== [fileUNF]; Gay, Victor, 2020, "TRF-GIS Military Subdivisions (1874–1940)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TAMQAG, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:f577Tynn8GsdCCJcWkA5Sg== [fileUNF] |
Other Reference
| Victor Gay (2021). Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940). Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 54(4), 189–207. doi: 10.1080/01615440.2021.1937421; Victor Gay and Jörn Boehnke (2022). The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, 57(4), 1209-1241. doi: 10.3368/jhr.57.4.0419-10151R1; Victor Gay (2023). The Intergenerational Transmission of World War I on Female Labor. The Economic Journal. doi: 10.1093/ej/uead029; Julia Cagé, Anna Dagorret, Pauline Grosjean and Sumitra Jha (2023). Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France. American Economic Review. doi: 10.1257/aer.20211509 |
Data Source
| INSEE. 2015. Code officiel géographique au 1er janvier 2015 [database]. Paris: INSEE. https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/2560698.; IGN. 2015. Geofla®Communes édition 2015 France Métropolitaine [database]. Paris: IGN. https://geoservices.ign.fr/geofla. |
Origin of Historical Sources
| Morts pour la France de la Première Guerre mondiale - Base de données des Morts pour la France de la Première Guerre mondiale. Site Mémoire des hommes (https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr) |