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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance in the Alps.
- Source :
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Journal of Economic History . Jun2016, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p559-594. 36p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Starting from the Medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of villages over a period of six centuries (thirteenth-nineteenth). Based on this original dataset, we provide a long-term perspective of decentralized institutional change in which gender-biased inheritance systems emerged as a defensive measure to preserve the wealth of village insiders. This institutional change also had implications for the population growth, marriage strategies, and the protection from economic shocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220507
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Economic History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115419602
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050716000565