https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/victor-gay/Victor GayHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/revolutionary-transition-inheritance-change-and-fertility-decline/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/revolutionary-transition-inheritance-change-and-fertility-decline/<p>Gay, Gobbi, and Goñi test Le Play&rsquo;s (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France&rsquo;s early fertility decline by abolishing impartible inheritance. In 1793, a series of decrees culminating in the Loi de Nivôse (January 6, 1794) abolished testamentary rights and imposed equal partition of assets among all children — partible inheritance — across France, overriding the mosaic of local customs and written laws that had governed inheritance in the Ancien Régime.</p>