pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women's rights over the commons were …

the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds …-term perspective of decentralized institutional change in which gender-biased inheritance systems emerged as a defensive measure to …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of … labor in the home which rely on innately endogenous factors, this paper's theory is based on an exogenous biological …