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Tackling Gender Discriminatory Inheritance Law Privately: Lessons from a Survey Experiment in Tunisia

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dc.contributor.authorHauser, Christina Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-07T15:30:48Z
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dc.date.issued2024-02-05
dc.description.abstractWhen reform of gender discriminatory law fails, individual action can offer a second-best solution. As most Muslim-majority countries, Tunisia applies Islamic inheritance law, systematically favoring sons over daughters. By making gifts to their daughter, parents can privately attenuate gender discrimination in inheritance. This study investigates to what extent gifting can represent an alternative to legal reform and for whom. Within a randomized experiment, this study tests whether providing information on public support for inheritance law reform and/or the possibility to make a gift to one’s daughter has a causal impact on individual attitudes towards women’s right to inheritance. The overall evidence on the effectiveness of the proposed informational treatments to encourage gifting is mixed. However, approval of gifting daughters is high—especially among the wealthy. Men are more likely to gift than women. By contrast, demand for legal reform is significantly higher among women and individuals with low educational attainment. The findings thus suggest that gifting indeed represents an alternative to legal reform; but mostly for a relatively well-off subset of the population, leaving the agency to the traditionally male head of the family.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099804402052432900/null
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41010
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/41010
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 10693
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectGENDER DISCRIMINATION
dc.subjectINHERITANCE LAW
dc.subjectGIFTING
dc.subjectFAMILY LAW
dc.titleTackling Gender Discriminatory Inheritance Law Privatelyen
dc.title.subtitleLessons from a Survey Experiment in Tunisiaen
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okr.crossref.titleTackling Gender Discriminatory Inheritance Law Privately: Lessons from a Survey Experiment in Tunisia
okr.date.disclosure2024-02-05
okr.date.lastmodified2024-02-07T04:01:31Zen
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okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/41010
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34252495
okr.identifier.reportWPS10693
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okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
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okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
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