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SUMMARY:Paula Gobbi - Université Libre de Bruxelles
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nRevolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline", wi
 th Victor Gay and Marc Goñi\nAbstract:\nFrance's demographic transition occ
 urred a century before any other country's. We test Le Play's hypothesis th
 at this demographic transition was triggered by the harmonization of inheri
 tance practices after the French Revolution. After a series of laws impleme
 nted in 1793, the Loi de Nivôse, year II, imposed the equality principle, e
 ffectively abolishing impartible inheritance practices that excluded non-he
 irs from inheriting. In regions that moved from impartible to partible inhe
 ritance, we expect fertility to decline if parents face a quantity-quality 
 tradeoff. In regions that removed the exclusion of women, we expect fertili
 ty to decline because of women's empowerment and delay in marriage ages. To
  test these hypotheses, we will compile a harmonized map of inheritance pra
 ctices before the French Revolution at a highly-disaggregate level. We dist
 inguish between partible vs. impartible inheritance and practices that excl
 ude vs. include women. To estimate the effect of these inheritance practice
 s on fertility, we will use genealogical data and exploit the 1793 harmoniz
 ation in a difference-in-differences framework. Finally, we will study whet
 her the imposition of the equality principle in other countries through the
  Napoleonic code propagated the demographic transition outside France. \n
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