Gender-Neutral Inheritance L;aws, Family Structure, and Women's Status in India
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 Indi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/571781490880608807/Gender-neutral-inheritance-laws-family-structure-and-womens-status-in-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26358 |