Aging women and family wealth

Jérôme Bourdieu (), Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann and Gilles Postel-Vinay
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Jérôme Bourdieu: PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, LEA - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: Population aging in France in the nineteenth century concerned mainly women, as men's life spans increased only after World War I. The article assesses the impact of this gender-differentiated aging process on wealth distribution, using individual data on bequests collected for the period 1800-1939. Over time, more women died without assets. But those who owned assets were richer. As a result, women's aging contributed both to a more unequal wealth distribution and to narrowing the gender gap between asset owners.

Keywords: Nineteenth century; Aging women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06
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Published in Social Science History, 2008, 32 (2), pp.143-174. ⟨10.1215/01455532-2007-017⟩

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DOI: 10.1215/01455532-2007-017

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