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Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:42 authored by Sanchari Roy
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 sons in ancestral property, I find that the reform failed to increase the actual likelihood of women inheriting property. Instead, parents appear to be “gifting” their share of land to their sons in order to circumvent the law. However, parents also appear to be compensating their daughters for such disinheritance by giving them alternative transfers in the form of either higher dowries or more education following the reform.

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  • Published

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Journal

Journal of Development Economics

ISSN

0304-3878

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

114

Page range

233-251

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  • Economics Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-12-08

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-03-04

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