| Titre | Pratiques successorales et fécondité : l'effet du Code civil | |
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| Auteur | Paul-André Rosental | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 100-101, 1991/4-5 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Héritage Au-delà de la micro-économie de l'héritage |
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| Page | 231-238 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Inheritance Practices and Fertility: the Effect of the Civil Code,
by Paul-André Rosental.
The Civil code has often been blamed for having caused a drop in 19th century France's fertility rate. By stipulating that estates had to be divided up equally among heirs rather than leaving fathers free to decide who they wanted to bequeath their property to , it may be responsible for testators' decisions to have less children so as to avoid estate division. Despite their shortcomings, the data gathered by historians over the past twenty years make it possible to conduct an informal test on this hypothesis. Only one-half of France experienced a change in estate law in 1804, which, in this area, had an overall dampening, but complex and unstable effect on fertility. The rate of the drop in fertility depended, in particular, on how much property was owned in each region as well as on a family's influence and ability to convince heirs remembered unfavourably to waive their rights. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1991_num_100_4_5267 |
