This Article examines how more than 50% of children living today may be disadvantaged by 1950s era inheritance laws that privilege and protect only those children living in nuclear families with their biological parents. Because so many children today are living in blended families —...

Equalizing inheritance rights is often suggested as an important step to guarantee gender equality in family transfers. South Korea removed the gender discriminatory provision in its inheritance law in 1991. This study looks at two channels of family transfer in South Korea—inheritance and...

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...