Maneuver of conscription from the colonial authorities

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Table of contents

1 Introduction 
2 Literature Review and Contributions to the Literature
3 Background 
3.1 Historical background
3.2 The administrative organization of French West Africa (FWA)
3.3 The stringent“top-down”approach of peace time conscription
4 Theoretical Hypotheses
4.1 Maneuver of conscription from the colonial authorities
4.2 Attitudes toward smilitary conscription from the indigenous
5 Data and Empirical Strategies
5.1 Conscription data
5.2 Majorout come variables of interest
5.3 Specifications for the impact of recruitment targets
5.4 Specifications for the impact of weather shocks
5.5 Weather data
5.6 Construction of other variables of interest
5.6.1 Construction of other weather-related variables
5.6.2 « Bartik-like »fill-in method formissing values oftargets
5.6.3 Construction of control variables
6 Summary Statistics 
6.1 Main variables analyses
6.2 Correlation analyses
7 Results 
7.1 Variance Decomposition
7.2 Results of theim pacts of recruitment target changes
7.2.1 Direct impact son the recruitment procedures
7.2.2 Heterogeneous impacts given labor constraint and target pressure
7.3 Results of the impacts of weather shocks on military participation
References 
Main Figures and Tables