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dc.contributor.authorFernández, Raquelen
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-24-
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-22T10:42:24Z-
dc.date.available2010-12-22T10:42:24Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/43461-
dc.description.abstractWhy has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting interests as husbands versus fathers, ultimately resolving them in favor of the latter. As husbands, men stood to gain from their privileged position in a patriarchal world whereas, as fathers, they were hurt by a system that afforded few rights to their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal systems that were initially more favorable to women would delay them. The theoretical relationship between capital and the relative attractiveness of reform is non-monotonic but growth inevitably leads to reform. I explore the empirical validity of the theoretical predictions by using cross-state variation in the US in the timing of married women obtaining property and earning rights between 1850 and 1920.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) |cMilanoen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aNota di Lavoro |x2010,57en
dc.subject.jelD1en
dc.subject.jelO1en
dc.subject.jelZ13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordWomen's Rightsen
dc.subject.keywordProperty Rightsen
dc.subject.keywordEconomic Developmenten
dc.titleWomen's rights and development-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn640464033en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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