PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Klaus Deininger
AU  - Aparajita Goyal
AU  - Hari Nagarajan
TI  - Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.48.1.114
DP  - 2013 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 114--141
VI  - 48
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/1/114.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/1/114.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2013 Jan 01; 48
AB  - We use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth rights in joint family property that were denied to daughters in the past. We show that the amendment significantly increased daughters' likelihood to inherit land, but that even after the amendment, substantial bias persists. Our results also indicate a robust increase in educational attainment of daughters, suggesting an alternative channel of wealth transfer.