Women, wealth and economic change: An assessment of the impact of women's property law in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1872–1927

Matteo, Livio Di

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2012.11.002

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“…He has investigated such determinants of wealth holdings as occupation, location and literacy; wealth differences across gender and religion; changes in the composition of wealth between financial assets and real estate; and the motives for asset accumulation. His evidence supports both life-cycle and bequest motives for savings, but he finds that the bequest motive had little impact on wealth accumulation (Di Matteo 2008).…”

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“…Livio Di Matteo (1997Matteo ( , 2008Matteo ( , 2012Matteo ( and 2013) is also concerned with wealth accumulation. Working with Ontario and, more recently, Manitoba probate inventories, which he has linked to manuscript Census records, Di Matteo has constructed extensive datasets spanning the last half of the 19th and early part of the 20th century.…”

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Contributions to Canadian economic history: The last 30 years

Hamilton

Keay

Lewis

2017

Canadian J of Economics

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The cliometric revolution that transformed economic history in the US in the 1960s was soon embraced by Canadian economic historians. Many of the important issues surrounding Canadian development remained the same: the role of resources, the place of international trade, immigration, capital accumulation and interactions with Native Americans, among others. But beginning in the 1960s, and certainly over the last 30 years, economic historians of Canada have addressed them with the tools of modern economics, both theoretical and empirical. We highlight the recent work emphasizing not just the methods but also the fundamental ways our understanding of Canadian history has been changed.

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Contributions to Canadian economic history: The last 30 years

Hamilton

Keay

Lewis

2017

Canadian J of Economics

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“…9 Across the Atlantic, Combs (2004Combs ( , 2005) makes a compelling case that England's MWPA of 1870 caused a marked shift in the composition of women's wealth holdings, from real estate to personal property. 10 Research on English Canada has documented a substantial increase in women's wealth holding that came after the passage of MWPAs there (Baskerville 2008;Di Matteo 2013;Di Matteo and George 1992;Ingram and Inwood 2000;Inwood and Van Sligtenhorst 2004). That work provides some of the strongest evidence so far to advance the hypothesis that marital property law reform had substantial effects on women's wealth holding.…”

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“…Research on English Canada has documented a substantial increase in women's wealth holding that came after the passage of MWPAs there (Baskerville 2008; Di Matteo 2013; Di Matteo and George 1992; Ingram and Inwood 2000; Inwood and Van Sligtenhorst 2004). That work provides some of the strongest evidence so far to advance the hypothesis that marital property law reform had substantial effects on women's wealth holding 11 .…”

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The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States

McDevitt¹,

Irwin²

2017

Soc. sci. hist.

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Shammas (1994) documented the expansion of women's wealth holding across the nineteenth-century United States, explaining it as the result of the married women's property acts (MWPAs) passed in most of states starting circa 1840. We look at the timing of the expansion of women's wealth holding, drawing on archival and published evidence from probate records. Starting with Richmond, Virginia, and its agricultural hinterland, we consider a variety of places, urban and rural, in the South and North, to suggest a general view of the eastern United States. In rough outline, while colonial women were at most one-tenth of probated wealth holders, antebellum women were at least one-fifth. Levels of women's wealth holding increased even more. The substantial narrowing of the gender wealth gap cannot be attributed to the MWPAs that followed. Perhaps those acts will explain the further narrowing of the gender wealth gap in the later nineteenth century, but that narrowing might better be understood as a continuation of previous trends. Our results remind that some legal reforms can better be understood as reflections than causes of social change.

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Wealth Inequality: Facts, Figures and Approaches to Its Study

Matteo

2018

The Evolution and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in the North Atlantic Anglo-Sphere, 1668–2013

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Women, wealth and economic change: An assessment of the impact of women's property law in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1872–1927

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

Contributions to Canadian economic history: The last 30 years

Contributions to Canadian economic history: The last 30 years

The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States

Wealth Inequality: Facts, Figures and Approaches to Its Study

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