Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Influence of Politics and Economics on Property Law

博士论文研究：政治经济学对财产法的影响摘要：尽管近几十年来发生了很大的变化，但男女之间的经济差距今天仍然存在。当代经济领域的性别不平等与最初在民事财产法和家庭法中颁布的法律不平等的遗产有关。该项目旨在研究某些家庭和财产法是如何以及为什么被通过的，以确定形成现代性别不平等的历史进程。通过这样做，这项研究将提供对美国和全球经济和政治不平等的洞察。现代民族国家和经济的法律基础在18世纪和19世纪遍及整个西方社会，当时许多国家采用了具有复杂财产权制度的全国性标准化民法制度。该项目将调查民法的跨国家和跨时间变化，以确定决定通过哪些法律的政治进程。此外，它还将检验围绕经济和政治资源的冲突在多大程度上推动了这些法律和政治结果。从经验上讲，该项目将考察法国和更广泛的欧洲的发展，并将产生两个新的数据集。第一个国家以下的数据集将利用一组包含改革要求的文件，这些文件写于1789年法国S大革命前夕，创建一个关于法律改革和妇女S权利的公众和精英意见的地理综合来源。第二个数据集将提供18世纪末和19世纪女性S财产权的跨国量化指标。该项目将提供对法律和经济领域中导致男女不平等和等级制度的因素的洞察。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Influence of Politics and Economics on Property LawAbstract: Despite substantial change in recent decades, economic disparities between men and women continue to persist today. Contemporary gender inequalities in economic arenas are linked to a legacy of legal inequalities initially enacted in civil property and family law. This project seeks to examine how and why certain family and property laws were adopted, in order to identify the historical processes that have shaped modern gender inequalities. In doing so, the study will provide insight into economic and political inequality in the United States and globally.The legal foundations of modern nation states and economies emerged throughout Western societies in the 18th and 19th centuries, as numerous countries adopted nationally standardized civil law regimes with complex systems of property rights. This project will investigate the cross-national and cross-time variation in civil laws in order to identify the political processes informing which laws were adopted. Further, it will test the degree to which conflicts over economic and political resources drove these legal and political outcomes. Empirically, the project will examine developments in France and more broadly in Europe and will produce two novel datasets. The first subnational dataset will leverage a set of documents containing reform demands, written on the eve of France?s 1789 revolution, to create a geographically comprehensive source of public and elite opinions on legal reform and women?s rights. The second dataset will provide cross-national quantitative indicators of women?s property rights in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The project will provide insight into the factors that drive inequality and hierarchy between men and women in law and economics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.