This article examines how women's efforts at capital accumulation and wealth production in late nineteenth … men and women that called into question women's financial capabilities, their relationship to money and the financial … markets, and their capacity to translate their wealth into political power. Popular American ideals about an individual …

buy in upscale, exclusive markets. It is little known, however, that in the past Chinese faced severe property … discrimination in the US. This paper traces three eras of Chinese property ownership and discrimination. Many Chinese first came to …, and job discrimination. I conclude that we must unearth the past history of property discrimination to address continuing …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

mechanisms behind this effect, we analyze property-level data in one neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. We find that new … new residents that purchased directly from existing property owners. …

the degree of financial development in a given county are strongly associated with lower children-to-women ratios. We find …