Increasingly, women’s property rights are seen as important for both equity and efficiency reasons. While there has been debate in the literature about women a

In this paper, we explore how different norms around property rights affect the empowerment of women of different social positions over the life cycle. We first

A critical history of the laws governing married women's property in England. Analyzing the laws and the ideology underpinning them, Staves (English, Brandeis U