Does inheritance law reform improve women's access to capital? : evidence from urban India

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dc.contributor.authorDeininger, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorJin, Songqing
dc.contributor.authorNagarajan, Hari K.
dc.contributor.authorXia, Fang
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-06T17:59:50Z
dc.date.available2014-03-06T17:59:50Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the impacts of the amendment to the 1956 Hindu Succession Act on Hindu females’ intergenerational transfers of physical and human capital. Information on the timing of three generations’ key life events helps isolate the causal effects. Our primary estimation strategy is a difference-indifference estimator in which we compare the share of total assets received by male and female siblings in the same household between households whose heads died before and after the amendment. In the case of human capital investment, we compare primary education attainment of young cohorts who were potentially benefit from the reform and the older cohorts who were unlikely to benefit from the reform. In light of the fact that the amendment applies only to Hindus but not to Muslims, we compare the results between Hindus and Muslims for a robustness check. The results suggest that the amendment increased the share of total physical assets received by Hindu females who were single before the reform by 0.216. They also point towards an increase in the share of gifts transferred to Hindu females by 0.147. Hindu girls gained 0.594 years of more primary education than boys relative to the old cohort after the amendment.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/52489
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ruralgov-ncaer.org/publications.php?cPath=2
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNational Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, INen
dc.relation.ispartofNCAER working papers on decentralisation and rural governance in India; no. 13, December 2012en
dc.subjectGENDERen
dc.subjectINDIAen
dc.subjectINHERITANCE LAWen
dc.subjectINTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERSen
dc.subjectLAW AND DEVELOPMENTen
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITALen
dc.subjectINHERITANCEen
dc.subjectGENDER ANALYSISen
dc.subjectWOMEN'S RIGHTSen
dc.subjectPROPERTY RIGHTSen
dc.subjectEMPOWERMENTen
dc.subjectGENDER DISCRIMINATIONen
dc.subjectURBAN AREASen
dc.subjectINDIAen
dc.titleDoes inheritance law reform improve women's access to capital? : evidence from urban Indiaen
dc.typeIDRC-Related Reporten
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.componentnumber105223001
idrc.project.number105223
idrc.project.titleBuilding Policy Research Capacity for Rural Governance and Growth in Indiaen
idrc.recordsserver.bcsnumberIC01-1339-28
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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