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

博士论文研究：政治和经济对物权法的影响摘要：尽管近几十年来发生了实质性的变化，但男女之间的经济差距今天仍然存在。当代经济领域的两性不平等与最初在民事财产和家庭法中规定的法律的不平等有关。该项目旨在研究某些家庭和财产法是如何以及为何获得通过的，以确定形成现代性别不平等的历史进程。在这样做的过程中，这项研究将提供洞察美国和全球的经济和政治不平等。现代民族国家和经济的法律的基础出现在整个西方社会在18世纪和19世纪，随着许多国家采用国家标准化的民法制度与复杂的财产权制度。该项目将调查民法的跨国和跨时间变化，以确定哪些法律被通过的政治进程。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的和政治结果。从经验上讲，该项目将研究法国和更广泛的欧洲的发展，并将产生两个新的数据集。第一个地方数据集将利用一组包含改革要求的文件，这些文件是在法国？1789年的革命，创造了一个地理上全面的来源，公众和精英的意见，法律的改革和妇女？的权利。第二个数据集将提供有关妇女的跨国定量指标。在18世纪末和19世纪的财产权。该项目将深入了解在法律和经济学方面造成男女不平等和等级制度的因素。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.