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Aging women and family wealth 

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Population aging in France in the nineteenth century concerned mainly women, as men's life spans increased only after World War I. The article assesses the impact of this gender-differentiated aging process on wealth distribution, using individual data on bequests collected for the period 1800-1939. Over time, more women died without assets. But those who owned assets were richer. As a result, women's aging contributed both to a more unequal wealth distribution and to narrowing the gender gap between asset owners.
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halshs-00824338 , version 1 (21-05-2013)

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Jérôme Bourdieu, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Gilles Postel-Vinay. Aging women and family wealth . Social Science History, 2008, 32 (2), pp.143-174. ⟨10.1215/01455532-2007-017⟩. ⟨halshs-00824338⟩
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