TY - JOUR T1 - Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 114 LP - 141 DO - 10.3368/jhr.48.1.114 VL - 48 IS - 1 AU - Klaus Deininger AU - Aparajita Goyal AU - Hari Nagarajan Y1 - 2013/01/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/1/114.abstract N2 - 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. ER -