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Roy, Sanchari (2011) Empowering women : inheritance rights and female education in India. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2011 (Number 46).
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Abstract
This paper examines the impact of women's property inheritance rights on their education. Using exogenous variation created by state level reforms to the inheritance law in India, I nd that mean educational attainment of women who were of primary school-going age at
the time of reform increased by 0.5 years in reforming relative to nonreforming states. The impact is present only for women in landowning and \Hindu" households, with no concomitant impact on men. I also provide suggestive evidence on the underlying mechanism that in order to prevent fragmentation of household property, parents compensate daughters by investing in their education.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Inheritance and succession -- India, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India, Women -- Education -- India | ||||
Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
Official Date: | November 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 2011 | ||||
Number: | Number 46 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 46 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | First published July 2011, revised November 2011 |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Funder: | Bagri Fellowship, Great Britain. Department for International Development |
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