%0 Report
        %A Casari, Marco
%A Lisciandra, Maurizio
        %T Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7938
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7938
        %X 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.
        %K common property
%K migrations
%K endogamy
%K land rights