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Social Science History 2008 32(2):143-174; DOI:10.1215/01455532-2007-017
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Aging Women and Family Wealth

Jérôme Bourdieu, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

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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