2 papers
econ.GN2025
Cultural Transmission, Property Rights, and Treatment of the Elderly
Matthew J. Baker, Joyce P. Jacobsen
We examine how production and the development of property rights interact with cultural transmission to shape the treatment of the elderly across societies. Our model posits that r…
econ.GN2025
A Model of Enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Land Property Rights
Matthew J. Baker, Jonathan Conning
Economists, historians, and social scientists have long debated how open-access areas, frontier regions, and customary landholding regimes came to be enclosed or otherwise transfor…