Do changes in inheritance legislation improve women's access to physical and human capital? : evidence from India's Hindu succession act

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dc.contributor.authorDeininger, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorGoyal, Aparajita
dc.contributor.authorNagarajan, Hari
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-06T16:09:14Z
dc.date.available2014-03-06T16:09:14Z
dc.date.issued2012-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines whether and to what extent changes in inheritance legislation impact women's physical and human capital investments using disaggregated household level data from India. We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property that were denied to daughters in the past. The causal effect is isolated by exploiting the variation in the timing of father's death to compare within household bequests of land given to sons and daughters in the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. We show that the amendment significantly increased daughters' likelihood to inherit land, but that even after the amendment significant bias persists. Our results also indicate a significant increase in educational attainment of daughters, suggesting an alternative channel of wealth transfer.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/52478
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. 2, March 2012en
dc.subjectINHERITANCEen
dc.subjectHINDU SUCCESSION ACTen
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITALen
dc.subjectGENDER ANALYSISen
dc.subjectLAW AND DEVELOPMENTen
dc.subjectWOMEN'S RIGHTSen
dc.subjectPROPERTY RIGHTSen
dc.subjectEMPOWERMENTen
dc.subjectGENDER DISCRIMINATIONen
dc.subjectURBAN AREASen
dc.subjectINDIAen
dc.titleDo changes in inheritance legislation improve women's access to physical and human capital? : evidence from India's Hindu succession acten
dc.typeWorking Paperen
idrc.dspace.accessOpen Accessen
idrc.project.componentnumber105223001
idrc.project.number105223
idrc.project.titleBuilding Policy Research Capacity for Rural Governance and Growth in Indiaen
idrc.recordsserver.bcsnumberIC01-1339-17
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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