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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Main Author: Mookerjee, Sulagna
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: 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

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