This paper analyzes the intergenerational effects following the positive changes in women's inheritance rights in India …. Using the Indian Human Development Survey data for rural India and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that the … property rights reform significantly increased women's education. However, we find no evidence of an intergenerational …

This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of … women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol …

In India, for ages Hindu women faced discrimination within the families w.r.t their property rights. Before … independence women’s property was divided into 2 heads, stridhan & woman’s estate. Some restrictions were there on her power of … by the Supreme Court in recent judgement of 2020.This paper aims to study the women’s property rights before independence …

benefit Hindu women who constituted 80 percent of women population in India. However, there are problems with the …When Karl Marx explained his famous theory about the class conflict between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, he ignored … the basis of who owns and controls the material resources within the families or societies. More specifically, in India …

judicial developments in India.” I've critically evaluated the judicial approach towards the right of women, whether literal or …This piece is a critical reflection upon Archana Mishra’s article on “ Towards women’s equal right to property : Recent … covers the Tribal and Hindu perspective, as well. It expounds & compares the women position from the date of transition up …

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