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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Main Authors:	Deininger, Klaus, Xia, Fang, Jin, Songqing, Nagarajan, Hari K.
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO LAND ADOLESCENT FEMALES AGE AT MARRIAGE AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AGED CHILD CARE CHILD LABOR CHILD MORTALITY COMMUNITIES CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICE CULTURAL CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELDERLY EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN EXCESS FERTILITY FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY RESOURCES FATHER FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE CHILD FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE MORTALITY FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY GENDER INEQUALITY HEALTH STATUS HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WORK HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INTERVENTIONS KINSHIP KINSHIP STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LACK OF INFORMATION LAND TENURE LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGISLATION LEVELS OF FERTILITY LOWER FERTILITY MARRIAGE AGE MARRIAGES MARRIED WOMEN MATERIAL WEALTH MIGRATION MODERNIZATION MOTHER MOTHERS NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION OLD AGE OLD-AGE PARENTS PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT PREGNANCY PREVENTABLE DISEASE PREVENTABLE DISEASES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES RESPECT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL POVERTY SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL NORMS SPOUSE SPOUSES STATE UNIVERSITY SURVIVAL RATE TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES VILLAGES WIDOWS WILL WIVES YOUNG GIRLS YOUNG WOMEN
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spelling	okr-10986-206302021-04-23T14:03:59Z Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Jin, Songqing Nagarajan, Hari K. ACCESS TO LAND ADOLESCENT FEMALES AGE AT MARRIAGE AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AGED CHILD CARE CHILD LABOR CHILD MORTALITY COMMUNITIES CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICE CULTURAL CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELDERLY EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN EXCESS FERTILITY FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY RESOURCES FATHER FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE CHILD FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE MORTALITY FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY GENDER INEQUALITY HEALTH STATUS HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WORK HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INTERVENTIONS KINSHIP KINSHIP STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LACK OF INFORMATION LAND TENURE LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGISLATION LEVELS OF FERTILITY LOWER FERTILITY MARRIAGE AGE MARRIAGES MARRIED WOMEN MATERIAL WEALTH MIGRATION MODERNIZATION MOTHER MOTHERS NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION OLD AGE OLD-AGE PARENTS PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT PREGNANCY PREVENTABLE DISEASE PREVENTABLE DISEASES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES RESPECT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL POVERTY SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL NORMS SPOUSE SPOUSES STATE UNIVERSITY SURVIVAL RATE TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES VILLAGES WIDOWS WILL WIVES YOUNG GIRLS YOUNG WOMEN 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. 2014-12-03T20:02:15Z 2014-12-03T20:02:15Z 2014-11 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7086 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
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topic	ACCESS TO LAND ADOLESCENT FEMALES AGE AT MARRIAGE AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AGED CHILD CARE CHILD LABOR CHILD MORTALITY COMMUNITIES CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICE CULTURAL CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELDERLY EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN EXCESS FERTILITY FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY RESOURCES FATHER FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE CHILD FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE MORTALITY FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY GENDER INEQUALITY HEALTH STATUS HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WORK HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INTERVENTIONS KINSHIP KINSHIP STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LACK OF INFORMATION LAND TENURE LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGISLATION LEVELS OF FERTILITY LOWER FERTILITY MARRIAGE AGE MARRIAGES MARRIED WOMEN MATERIAL WEALTH MIGRATION MODERNIZATION MOTHER MOTHERS NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION OLD AGE OLD-AGE PARENTS PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT PREGNANCY PREVENTABLE DISEASE PREVENTABLE DISEASES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES RESPECT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL POVERTY SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL NORMS SPOUSE SPOUSES STATE UNIVERSITY SURVIVAL RATE TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES VILLAGES WIDOWS WILL WIVES YOUNG GIRLS YOUNG WOMEN
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO LAND ADOLESCENT FEMALES AGE AT MARRIAGE AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AGED CHILD CARE CHILD LABOR CHILD MORTALITY COMMUNITIES CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICE CULTURAL CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH DIVORCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELDERLY EMPOWERING WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN EXCESS FERTILITY FAMILY PROPERTY FAMILY RESOURCES FATHER FATHERS FEMALE FEMALE CHILD FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE FEMALE MORTALITY FUTURE GENERATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY GENDER INEQUALITY HEALTH STATUS HIV/AIDS HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WORK HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INHERITANCE INHERITANCE RIGHTS INTERVENTIONS KINSHIP KINSHIP STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LACK OF INFORMATION LAND TENURE LAWS LEGAL CHANGES LEGISLATION LEVELS OF FERTILITY LOWER FERTILITY MARRIAGE AGE MARRIAGES MARRIED WOMEN MATERIAL WEALTH MIGRATION MODERNIZATION MOTHER MOTHERS NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION OLD AGE OLD-AGE PARENTS PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT PREGNANCY PREVENTABLE DISEASE PREVENTABLE DISEASES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES RESPECT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL POVERTY SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL NORMS SPOUSE SPOUSES STATE UNIVERSITY SURVIVAL RATE TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES VILLAGES WIDOWS WILL WIVES YOUNG GIRLS YOUNG WOMEN Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Jin, Songqing Nagarajan, Hari K. Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
geographic_facet	South Asia India
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7086
description	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.
format	Publications & Research
author	Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Jin, Songqing Nagarajan, Hari K.
author_facet	Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Jin, Songqing Nagarajan, Hari K.
author_sort	Deininger, Klaus
title	Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
title_short	Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
title_full	Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
title_fullStr	Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
title_full_unstemmed	Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India
title_sort	inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation : second-generation effects from india
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	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
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Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation : Second-Generation Effects from India

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