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 …

This paper examines whether and to what extent amendments in inheritance legislation
impact women's physical and human capital investments, using disaggregated household …

This paper examines the impact of gender-progressive reforms to the inheritance law in
India on women's outcomes. Despite stipulating that daughters would have equal shares as …

We analyze the impact of improved land inheritance rights for women in India on female
empowerment by examining their educational attainment and the intergenerational effects of …

While female property ownership is associated with positive outcomes for women, their right
to inherit property in patrilineal societies may also result in more constraining marriage …

This paper investigates whether inheritance rights empower women by increasing their
autonomy/say within the household. Existing literature focuses on the woman's income …

Before 2005, most states of India only gave sons the legal right to inherit their parents'
ancestral land. However, five states in India had legal reforms giving daughters the same …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the
historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the …

Women's ability to accumulate wealth is often attributed to whether they have property rights;
ie, a legal personality to own and manage property. In this paper we argue that basic …

This paper examines education, land, and nonland asset transfers from parents to children
in five rice villages in the Philippines. A model with family fixed effects explains transfers …