Introduction : agriculture and the state -- State interventions in rural social policy during the Soviet period -- Reform of the collective agricultural sector -- Financial levers and the end of the social contract -- Land reform and the development of private farming -- Financial levers and the...

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...