Publication: Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women’s Status in India
| creativeworkseries.issn | 1564-698X | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mookerjee, Sulagna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-04T20:02:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-04T20:02:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.identifier.citation | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/34875 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1564-698X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/34875 | |
| dc.publisher | Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo | |
| dc.subject | FAMILY STRUCTURE | |
| dc.subject | INHERITANCE LAW | |
| dc.subject | INTRAHOUSEHOLD BARGAINING | |
| dc.subject | GENDER | |
| dc.title | Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women’s Status in India | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type | Article de journal | fr |
| dc.type | Artículo de revista | es |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| okr.date.disclosure | 2020-12-04 | |
| okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-05-06T11:13:12.987865Z | |
| okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Journal Article | |
| okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
| okr.identifier.doi | 10.1093/wber/lhx004 | |
| okr.journal.nbpages | 498-515 | |
| okr.language.supported | en | |
| okr.peerreview | Academic Peer Review | |
| okr.region.administrative | South Asia | |
| okr.region.country | India | |
| okr.topic | Gender::Gender and Development | |
| okr.topic | Gender::Gender and Economics | |
| okr.topic | Gender::Gender and Law | |
| okr.topic | Law and Development::Law and Gender | |
| okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Inequality | |
| okr.volume | 33(2) | |
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