Gay, Gobbi, and Goñi test Le Play's (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to France's early fertility decline by abolishing impartible inheritance. In 1793, a series of decrees …
PublishedReview of Economic StudiesOnline 7 Oct 2025Published Jul 2026
This paper asks a fundamental question about policy design: when a program prioritizes one group over another, is that because the group benefits more from the intervention, or because the policy …