This paper examines how women's participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in … India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women's rights to an equal share in ancestral property … in those four states have their land registered under women's names. Controlling for the potential endogeneity of land …

section 1. Gender : current status -- section 2. Gender : some issues -- section 3. Policies towards gender empowerment … -- section 4. Gender and rural development -- section 5. Gender : select interventions for gender development …