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Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline

We test Le Play’s (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France’s early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local inheritance practices, imposing equal partition of assets among all children. We …

The Atlas of Local Jurisdictions of Ancien Régime France

The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France

Customary law regulated most European societies during the middle ages and the early modern period. To better understand the roots of legal customs and their implications for long-run development, we introduce an atlas of customary regions of Ancien …