Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
This paper uses evidence from three Indian states, one of which amended inheritance legislation in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of inheritance reform using a triple-difference strategy. Second-generation effects on education...
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| Format: | Publications & Research |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20346331/inheritance-law-reform-empowerment-human-capital-accumulation-second-generation-effects-india-inheritance-law-reform-empowerment-human-capital-accumulation-second-generation-effects-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20630 |
| Summary: | This paper uses evidence from three
Indian states, one of which amended inheritance legislation
in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of
inheritance reform using a triple-difference strategy.
Second-generation effects on education, time use, and health
are larger and more significant than first-generation
effects even controlling for mothers' endowments.
Improved access to bank accounts and sanitation as well as
lower fertility in the parent generation suggest that
inheritance reform empowered females in a sustainable way, a
notion supported by significantly higher female survival rates. |
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