Recent attacks against CNRS in the French press are very worrying and full of misleading information. People doing this don't aim to defend the quality of research in France.

So happy to travel to @unibasel.bsky.social to present my paper "The Emergence of the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff insights from early modern academics", joint with D. de la Croix. The reversal of the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff can be traced back before the Industrial Revolution in Northern Europe