@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7938,
            	author={Casari, Marco and Lisciandra, Maurizio},
            	title={Gender Discrimination in Property Rights},
            	year={2014},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={7938},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7938},
	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 peasant communities over a period of six centuries (13th-19th). 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 community insiders. This institutional change had implications also for the protection from economic shocks, for population growth, and for marriage strategies.},
	keywords={common property;migrations;endogamy;land rights},
            }