Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, 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 India. Results suggest that the reform increased women...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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