caa a22 4500 388069112 CHVBK 20180307125141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022300 doi S0022050700022300 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022300 Botticini Maristella Maristella Botticini is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail: maristel@bu.edu. A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Marriage Market in a Tuscan Town, 1415-1436 [Elektronische Daten] [Maristella Botticini] This article examines the role of dowries and highlights the variables that affected the size of dowries in fifteenth-century Tuscany. The estimation, which matches the households found in the marriage contrascts with the corresponding households in the Florentine Catasto of 1427, offers support for the present net value hypothesis and for the altruism model. Results indicate a positive correlation between a bride's dowry size and her age when used as peoxy for her contribution to the marital household. Parents also provided their daughters with larger dowries when they married "down” into relatively less wealthy or socially prominent households. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/1(1999-03), 104-121 0022-0507 59:1<104 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022300 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022300 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Botticini Maristella Maristella Botticini is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail: maristel@bu.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/1(1999-03), 104-121 0022-0507 59:1<104 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge