Inheritance Laws Across Colonies
Causes and Consequences
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10097103 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lee J Alston (Williams College, autor de correspondencia), Morton Owen Schapiro (Williams College) |
| Año | 1984 |
| Volumen | 44 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 277-287 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1984-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700031880 |
| OpenAlex | W2041313556 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 15 |
| Referencias citadas | 12 |
We examine in this paper both the causes and consequences of inheritance laws in the colonies. We argue that the continuation of intestate inheritance laws over the colonial period was due in part to their compatibility with economic efficiency. In the North, multigeniture helped motivate family labor, whereas the passive acceptance of the British inheritance system of primogeniture in the South rested on its promotion of large plantations that could capture economies of scale. In terms of effects, a strong bequest motive in the colonies adopting multigeniture reduced the variability in demographic experiences across colonies with different inheritance systems
Bequest · Biology · Colonialism · Economics · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Political science · Promotion (chess · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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Primogeniture
Creating the Cape Colony
Unigeniture in an uncertain world
Relative Income and Price of Time
Keeping it in the family
An Earthly Tabernacle”
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking
Property Rights and Transaction Costs in Marriage
Three-generation mobility in the United States, 1850–1940
To Part or Not to Part
Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing
Estate Inheritance
Linking dispersal and resources in humans
Farm Succession in Modern Ireland
The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
The Beginnings of Partible Inheritance in the American Colonies
Land Availability and Fertility in the United States, 1760–1870
Social Control in the Colonial Economy
Tenure choice in Southern agriculture, 1930–1960
Law in American History
Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States
Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War
Origin of the Land Tenure System in the United States
The Revolution in Virginia
Primogeniture and Entail in Colonial Virginia
| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
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| Citas por año | 0,41 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 14 |