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Gender-Neutral Inheritance L;aws, Family Structure, and Women's Status in India

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dc.contributor.authorMookerjee, Sulagna
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-13T17:20:39Z
dc.date.available2017-04-13T17:20:39Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines whether economic empowerment of women improves their autonomy within their marital household, and investigates the mechanism, by exploiting variation from a legal reform aimed at improving women's inheritance rights in India. Results suggest that the reform increased women’s participation in decision-making but at the expense of the older generation of household members and not at the expense of their husbands. Two channels are proposed to explain this phenomenon. First, this can be driven by a shift in the family structure from traditional joint families to nuclear households. Such a change is consistent both with the increase in women's decision-making authority, which they can exert to move out of the joint household, as well as with men's incentives, since men have weaker financial links with their parents post-reform. Second, even within joint families, the amendments empowered young couples at the expense of the older generation of household members.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/571781490880608807/Gender-neutral-inheritance-laws-family-structure-and-womens-status-in-India
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8017
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/26358
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8017
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectINHERITANCE LAWS
dc.subjectFAMILY STRUCTURE
dc.subjectFAMILY ECONOMICS
dc.subjectINTRAHOUSEHOLD BARGAINING
dc.subjectWOMEN'S WELFARE
dc.titleGender-Neutral Inheritance L;aws, Family Structure, and Women's Status in Indiaen
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okr.crossref.titleGender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women's Status in India
okr.date.disclosure2017-03-30
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/571781490880608807/Gender-neutral-inheritance-laws-family-structure-and-womens-status-in-India
okr.guid571781490880608807
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8017
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b084a634f6_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum27316157
okr.identifier.reportWPS8017
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/571781490880608807/pdf/WPS8017.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndia
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okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicGender::Gender and Law
okr.topicGender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.topicLaw and Development::Law and Gender
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unitOperations and Strategy Team, Development Economics Vice Presidency
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