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. …

inheritance rights to Indian women on the quantity and quality of children and son preference. Using a difference …-in-differences methodology, we find that women who were affected by the state reforms had 0.35 more children. The increase in the number of sons … born to treated women was higher than the number of daughters. To assess the federal reform we use a panel data of women …

-assisted suicide leave much to be desired. Although this topic has been beaten to death in the literature, the vast majority of … in these cases. Basically, suicide is a property rights issue and physician-assisted suicide is a contract rights issue …