Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance in the Alps
研究了中世纪以来意大利阿尔卑斯山区女性公地财产权逐渐被侵蚀的过程，基于六个世纪数百个村庄的继承法规数据，揭示了性别歧视性继承制度作为保护村庄内部财富的防御性措施出现，并影响了人口增长、婚姻策略和经济冲击抵御。
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.