When reform of gender discriminatory law fails, individual action can offer a second-best solution. As most Muslim-majority countries, Tunisia applies Islamic inheritance law, systematically favoring sons over daughters. By making gifts to their daughter, parents can privately attenuate gender...

Inheritance law is a family-oriented legal institution shaping how families transfer wealth across generations. This review discusses the main components of inheritance law (inheritance tax rate, and testamentary freedom), and how they impact business families. It also explores common strategies...

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the effect of the equal inheritance reform, I devise a...

Distribute the rest of estate and property to the relatives of the deceased according to Shariah Law, is commonly practiced. In Hindu law, Property received from a decedent, either by will or through state laws of intestate succession, where the decedent has failed to execute a valid will....

Using a counterfactual approach based on propensity score matching with Rosenbaum bounds in a cross section of 134 countries, we study the causal effect of colonisation on contemporary subjective happiness. Findings reveal that the settled countries, specifically former French colonies,...

When reform of gender discriminatory law fails, individual action can offer a second-best solution. As most Muslim-majority countries, Tunisia applies Islamic inheritance law, systematically favoring sons over daughters. By making gifts to their daughter, parents can privately attenuate gender...