TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Casari, Marco
AU  - Lisciandra, Maurizio
        TI  - Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7938
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7938
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - common property
KW  - migrations
KW  - endogamy
KW  - land rights
        ER  -