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Deininger, Klaus; Goyal, Aparajita; Nagarajan, Hari – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
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 daughters' likelihood to inherit land, but that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Real Estate, Daughters, Death
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Hnatkovska, Viktoria; Lahiri, Amartya; Paul, Sourabh B. – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
We contrast the intergenerational mobility rates of the historically disadvantaged scheduled castes and tribes (SC/ST) in India with the rest of the workforce in terms of their education attainment, occupation choices and wages. Using survey data from successive rounds of the National Sample Survey between 1983 and 2005, we find that…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Generational Differences, Social Class, Barriers